Nunchaku: Dynamic Training Book by Hirokazu Kanazawa (Preowned)

Former three time All Japan Karate Champion, and supreme master of the Shotokan style of karate, the author is also a recognized weapons expert, specializing in nunchaku and sai. His book has been acclaimed as the best produced, and easiest to understand on the subject, and takes the reader right from the most basic movements, up to a complex and dynamic 106 move kata, that develops technique and style, as well as providing a dazzling exhibition of skill for demonstration purposes. An in depth work that includes sections on history, origins, author's biography, health aspects etc.

Chapters:

1 Historical background: Okinawa martial arts
2 About the author
3 Introduction to Ryukyu Kobudo
4 Kamae: The stances
5 Morote kaman: Double nunchaku stances
6 Furi: Striking techniques
7 Bu Ho no Kata: Formal exercise
8 Bu Ho no Kata: Applications
9 Ju Ho no Kata: Health method exercise

About the instructor:

Kanazawa Hirokazu was born in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1931. After graduating from Takushoku University in 1958, he entered the first class of the Japan Karate Association's live-in instructor's course. On graduation he became one of the pioneers of karate's globalization, Living and instructing in Hawaii and throughout Europe. In 1978 he formed the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation, which he still heads. He continues to tirelessly promote karate built on the "way of harmony", teaching in more than 100 countries around the world.

Length: 150 pages 

Publication date: 1984