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Dynamic Karate: Instruction by the Master.

Masatoshi Nakayama
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
Binding:Paperback Pages: 308
Publication Date: 1987-02-01
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0870117882
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Synopsis

• Written by the chief instructor of the Japan Karate Federation, this handbook aims to help the reader perfect the karate technique.

Customer Reviews

• Master the Basics from the Master by Terry Tozer - Reading, Bracknell, Brighton & Hove, UK
• It's simply not possible to write anything negative about this book. Coming from one of Funakoshi Sensei's more senior students it is without a shadow of a doubt just brilliant!
  
  Yes, it is about the basics of karate, but out of the hundreds (yes hundreds!) of books that I own on Shotokan Karate, this really is the best one dealing with the fundamentals of what karate is built up upon.
  
  Nakayama Sensei uses lots of large and good quality pictures of himself to demonstrate each move and each move is depicted in a series of staggered shots so that you can see exactly what is happening through any particular technique. Along with the pictures are detailed explanations of how the technique should be performed correctly.
  
  This is the only book that I know of that actually show shots of incorrect moves too allowing the reader to easily differentiate between right and wrong.
  
  Nakayama Sensei has excelled himself here in this large tomb, almost encyclopaedic book, no wonder he was a professor in a University.
  
  Also - if you want to really get to grips with your kata & kumite then be sure to look at his "Best Karate" series too.
• 0 people found this review helpful.

• Master the basics from the Master by Terry Tozer - Reading, Bracknell, Brighton & Hove, UK
• It's simply not possible to write anything negative about this book. Coming from one of Funakoshi Sensei's more senior students it is without a shadow of a doubt just brilliant!
  
  Yes, it is about the basics of karate, but out of the hundreds (yes hundreds!) of books that I own on Shotokan Karate, this really is the best one dealing with the fundamentals of what karate is built up upon.
  
  Nakayama Sensei uses lots of large and good quality pictures of himself to demonstrate each move and each move is depicted in a series of staggered shots so that you can see exactly what is happening through any particular technique. Along with the pictures are detailed explanations of how the technique should be performed correctly.
  
  This is the only book that I know of that actually show shots of incorrect moves too allowing the reader to easily differentiate between right and wrong.
  
  Nakayama Sensei has excelled himself here in this large tomb, almost encyclopaedic book, no wonder he was a professor in a University.
  
  Also - if you want to really get to grips with your kata & kumite then be sure to look at his "Best Karate" series too.
• 1 people found this review helpful.

• Response to negative review by Mr. A. M. Taylor - Lincoln UK
• The writer of the negative review obviously has no idea about karate. The book concentrates on basics, not the more complicated aspects of karate. Blocks are not blocks, it's only the modern japanese and western interpretation of these movements. They actually represent locking movements and parry's (as the term uke, as in age-uke means 'to receive', not block). Karate doesn't preach the head guards at a basic level, but do at a more experienced level, as can be seen in many kata. Karate was developed as a civil self defence system, and has the attitude that the opponent must be controlled by using trapping/locking and pulling movements. Therefore not to let him hit you round the head/body lots of times with last man standing. Okinawan karate practictioners conduct some serious conditioning training, such as using metal rods to toughen shins, hitting the body with concrete blocks etc. Things like this are not in the book because they need specialist training. This book is all about basics. Some people will write negatively about subjects they know very little about, and this stands out a mile when they write reviews. Ignore these types. This book is an excellent source of reference for any karate practitioner.
• 1 people found this review helpful.

• master class by jw unsu - england
• the reviewer who says it is all basics is correct. its a re write of vol 1 and 2 of the best karate books and its a book on basics hence being basic. also The problem with the blocking in boxing is it only works when your attackers are wearing big padded gloves, other wise you get you fists pushed into your face, this book show deflections attacking block and tai sabaki (slipping and foot work in boxing terms) and all attacks in the karate sylabus. this book should sit in every karatka's book case.
• 0 people found this review helpful.

• Shotokan bible by Mr. M. A. Bowles - Glasgow, Scotland
• This was one of the first karate books I bought when I started training. A lucky choice! I found it invaluable in studying the details of the basics and learning the japanese names. The pictures are clear and relevant to learning the techniques, and the occasional photos of the masters are inspiring to a student.
  
  These days I hardly look at the book, because every page is now indelibly held in my memory; the book is as relevant to my training now as it was when I first read it - hard to believe it is almost thirty years ago. If you study Shotokan and you want to master the basics, this is the best single work to use. The pedigree of the author is unquestioned amongst the masters and his students have become great masters themselves.
• 5 people found this review helpful.