The Complete Book of Karate Weapons

Learn how to defend yourself with the only comrehensive book on karate weaons ever published! Over 850 action photos illustrate this impressive album, showing the proper usage and katas for seven lethal karate weapons, including nunchaku, yawara sticks, sai, fighting knife, tonfa, staff, and bo. A

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truly remarkable selection for martial artists, instructors, and self-defense specialists. This book fills a longtime gap in the martial arts field. Until now, no books were available on the tonfa or the yawara, and only a few were available on the staff, the bo, and the knife. There seemed to be numerous books on the nunchaku, most poorly done, and a few books on the sai; but all in all, weapons books were few and far between.

Each chapter features a basic practice kata for each weapon, as well as techniques for the weapon's offensive and defensive use; methods a beginner can learn, but that a teacher can also benefit from.

The Complete Book of Karate Weapons will serve as a manual on weapons for years to come-a book that a teacher or student would be proud to own and refer to whenever they had a question on weapons or wanted a new technique. You will never need another book on karate weapons.

According to the author, 'If you will read this book with an open mind and follow the techniques and exercises described herein, you can make yourself one of the few experts with weapons in the wrold today.'

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 The knife
Holding positions
Basic stance
Wrist
Throwing
Striking areas
Techniques
Defenses against
Gi top block
Kata
Chapter 2 The yawara
Holding positions
Striking areas
Techniques
Break up a fight
Kata
Chapter 3 The tonfa
Holding position
Flipping
Blocks
Striking areas and positions
Techniques
Defenses against
Bo against tonfas
Kata
Chapter 4 The staff
Holding positions
Blocking positions
Blocking demonstrated
Striking areas
Power and range
Technique
Staff against bo
Defenses against
Blocking with kicking Jumping spin-kick
Kata
Chapter 5 The bo
Holding positions
Blocks
Techniques
For defense against weapons
To throw an opponent
Defenses against
Kata
Chapter 6 The nunchaku
Holding positions
Carries
Moving the sticks
Catches
Swinging the sticks
Between the legs catch
Blocks
Striking areas
Wrist lock
Chokes
Techniques
Defense against
Blocking with jo
Kata
Chapter 7 The sai
Holding position
Flipping
Stances
Blocks
Striking positions and areas
For wrist control
For defense
Staff against sai
Kata

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