Karate: A Master's Secrets of Uechi Ryu Book by Ihor Rymaruk

The most comprehensive text on the art of Uechi-Ryu Karate, this book is packed with three decades worth of master-level experience. With over 500 pages of insight and thousands of detailed step-by-step photographs, this book is perfect for Karate enthusiasts, and serves as an instructor's guide and a student's manual.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Reflections
Introduction
Chapter 1: Historical Overview – By Nancy R. Bakemeier
Chapter 2: Why Study Women and the Children Spirit of Teaching
Chapter 3: Tie the Belt, Courtesy, Basis for Promotion, and Passive Guard Position
Chapter 4: How to make...
Chapter 5: Warming Up Exercises
Chapter 6: Foundations for Formal Combinations
Chapter 7: Building Critical Foundations for the First Form – Sanchin
Chapter 8: Sanchin: An Osteopathic Perspective – By Bill Papura, D.O.
Chapter 9: Formal Combinations, or Hōjō Undō
Chapter 10: Applications of the Formal Combinations
Chapter 11: Major Kicks and Applications
Chapter 12: Two Man Sparring Drills
Chapter 13: Self-Defense: Gun, Knife, Pen, Chokes
Chapter 14: Martial Arts and Criminal Law – By Gerard C. DeCasas, Esq.
Chapter 15: Vital Points: Striking Chart
Chapter 16: Student's Reflections – Edited by Jennifer Rymaruk
Chapter 17: Okinawa and the Obon Festival, Pictorial
Conclusion
Appendix A: Up Exercises at a Glance
Appendix B: Warming Basics at a Glance
Students That Have Achieved A Black Belt
Recommended Reading
Bibliography / Recommended Reading
About the Author
Desiderata
Index

About the Author:

Ihor Rymaruk is a 9th-degree black belt master in Uechi-Ryu Karate, director and chief instructor of the Okinawan Uechi-Ryu Karate School in Amsterdam, New York (since 1974). Began training in 1963, studied directly in Okinawa under Grand Master Kanei Uechi (1982), Vietnam veteran, author of "Karate: A Master's Secrets of Uechi-Ryu", inventor of the "Iron Arm" conditioning tool, and founder of the United States Uechi-Ryu Karate Association.

Length: 576 pages

Publication date: 2005