Description
The Tuttle Practical Karate Series is a set of 6 volumes that comprehensively explains all aspects of using karate in almost every conceivable situation. Each volume includes hundreds of illustrations making it accessible to both young and old alike.
Library's review
'Every step is clearly described in the teaxt and oftern accompanied by the familiar foot diagreams....This book is written for the busy (person) who has not time to undergo a full training program at a dojo. It offers easy-to-learn karate reasponses in typical self-defense situations. Diligent
Practical Karate: Self-Defense in Special Situations is the final volume of the classic six-volume series by Masatoshi Nakayama and Donn Draeger. Beginnng with tactics for dealing with automobile situations, escalating to tied-hand situatins, then switchblade, chain, meat cleaver, and razor attacks, and ifinishinig with tactics for dealing with handgun attacks, the authors cover a wide reange of effective responses in situations calling for advanced tactics. This volume heops to repalce false confidence with an ability to make a quick, realistic appraisal of a dangerous situation and take the correct countermeasures for personal safety.
Masatochi Nakayama, for many years the chief insturctor of the Japan Karate Association, began his karate training as a student f Gichin Funakoshi in 1932. Also a student of Chinese martial arts and the scion of a noted family of kenjutsu instructors, he directed the expansin of Shotokan karate throukghout the world and played a major rol in the shaping of modern karate.
Donn Draeger, an internatinally recognized authority and author of many books on the martial arts of Asia, was a pioneer Westerner in te practice of Japanese martial arts and an instructor in the International Division of the Kodokan in Tokyo. He was the first non-Japanese to compete in the All-Japan HighRank Holders' Judo Tournament at the Kodokan.
Contents
Author's foreword
Preface Essential points
Chapter One: Automiobile situations
Rear seat bare-handed choke; Rear seat judo arm choke; Rear seat judo lapel choke; Rear seat garrotte; Rear seat double assailant threat; Single assailant outside threat; Double assailant outside threat
Chapter Two: Tied hand situations
Frontal tie-single assailant, single punch; Frontal tie-single assailant, kicking attack; Frontal tie-single assailant, kick and double punch attack; Frontal tie-single assailant, hold and punch attack; Rear tie-single assailant, grasp and punch; Rear tie-double assailant, rough-up
Chapter Three: Switchblade, chain, meatcleaver and razor attacks
Frontal free threat-switchblace; Frontal free threat-chain; Frontal free threat-meatcleaver; Frontal free threat-razor
Chapter Four: Handgun attacks
Frontal free threat; Frontal search; Rear free threat
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practice at home wll equip one with...more than instinct in an emergency situation.'-Mainichi ShimbunPractical Karate: Self-Defense in Special Situations is the final volume of the classic six-volume series by Masatoshi Nakayama and Donn Draeger. Beginnng with tactics for dealing with automobile situations, escalating to tied-hand situatins, then switchblade, chain, meat cleaver, and razor attacks, and ifinishinig with tactics for dealing with handgun attacks, the authors cover a wide reange of effective responses in situations calling for advanced tactics. This volume heops to repalce false confidence with an ability to make a quick, realistic appraisal of a dangerous situation and take the correct countermeasures for personal safety.
Masatochi Nakayama, for many years the chief insturctor of the Japan Karate Association, began his karate training as a student f Gichin Funakoshi in 1932. Also a student of Chinese martial arts and the scion of a noted family of kenjutsu instructors, he directed the expansin of Shotokan karate throukghout the world and played a major rol in the shaping of modern karate.
Donn Draeger, an internatinally recognized authority and author of many books on the martial arts of Asia, was a pioneer Westerner in te practice of Japanese martial arts and an instructor in the International Division of the Kodokan in Tokyo. He was the first non-Japanese to compete in the All-Japan HighRank Holders' Judo Tournament at the Kodokan.
Contents
Author's foreword
Preface Essential points
Chapter One: Automiobile situations
Rear seat bare-handed choke; Rear seat judo arm choke; Rear seat judo lapel choke; Rear seat garrotte; Rear seat double assailant threat; Single assailant outside threat; Double assailant outside threat
Chapter Two: Tied hand situations
Frontal tie-single assailant, single punch; Frontal tie-single assailant, kicking attack; Frontal tie-single assailant, kick and double punch attack; Frontal tie-single assailant, hold and punch attack; Rear tie-single assailant, grasp and punch; Rear tie-double assailant, rough-up
Chapter Three: Switchblade, chain, meatcleaver and razor attacks
Frontal free threat-switchblace; Frontal free threat-chain; Frontal free threat-meatcleaver; Frontal free threat-razor
Chapter Four: Handgun attacks
Frontal free threat; Frontal search; Rear free threat
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ISBN
804804869
Publication
Charles E. Tuttle Company: Publishers Tokyo, Japan & Rutland, Vermont