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In the past ten years, the fame and popularity of karate have increased and prospered with tremendous speed. But this happy picture has a less pleasing aspect: behind the constant growth are some uncertainties about the future of this important martial art Karate, evolved through
In this book, whch is a challenge to all those who would cheapen karate, Masutasu Oyama has applied his thirty years of experience and his profound knowledge to outstanding advanced techniques evolved and transmitted throught the long annals of Chinese kempo. Based on the important theory of the point and the circle, Oyama karate always stands a man in good stead in actual combat conditions.
All of the techniques introduced in this book are valuable in combat and self-defense, and none of them has ever been presented in print before. The photographs and explanatory texts make even complicated moves easy to follow. Of course, this work is primarily intended for experienced karate men and instructors, but anyone with a certain amount of experience will find it of value.
256 pages, more than 1,500 gravure illus. Cloth-over-boards binding, lamnated jacket, and slipcase. 8 1/2 by 12 inches.
Masutatsu Oyama, born in Korea in 1923, began studying Korean kempo at the age of nine. Ater graduationg from middle school in Seoul, he came to Japan to study at an aviation school in 1938. Although he first undertook to master Kodokan judo, he later switched to karate, in which he made such amazing progress that at seventeen he was second dan and at twenty-two fourth dan. While enrolled at the Takushoku University, he was drafted into the military.
In 1947, immediately after World War II, Oyama won the All-Japan Karate Championship and, after resolving to devote his body and soul to karate, retired to the mountains where, living alone, he practiced the strictest psychological and physical discipline. After he returned to the ordinary world, he began a career of teaching the true karate to people evrywhere. Dring his first trip to the United states, in 1952, in hundreds of exhibitions he proved to thousands of people how astonishing the power of karate is. In those days, his amazing ability to rip the horns from living bulls caused a tremendous sensation but gradually, as his fame spread, his true aim of teaching the essential spirit of the martial arts came to the fore-ground as his students and followers began to establish Oyama-karate training halls all over the globe. Oyama himself, in his frequent trips around the world to research the military techniques of other nations, has expanded the bounds of karate to the extent that today over ten thousand students in five hundred Oyama karate training halls in over forty nations are carrying on his work.
In reply to the pressing demands of countless karate students and fans, in 1958, he published his first book, the record-breaking What Is Karate?, and followed it, in 1965, with another best seller, This Is Karate. In October of 1969, he organized the first All-Japan open karate tournament, which, held in Tokyo, captured the attention of karate men from many lands.
Contents
Preface
Part I Background
1 History
Combat techniques of the ancient west; Egypt; Ancient Greece
Ancient Indian combat techniques
Chinese Kempo
Kempo in lands neighboring with Chinea; Northern and Soutern Kempo; Korean Kempo; Mongolian and central asian combat techniques; South Asia
The Arts of unarmed combat; Okinawa-te
Japanese combat techniques and karate
Part II Free-style practice fighting
2 General points
Circle and the point
Mental atitude
Directing the gaze
Interval
Breathing
3 Follow-up foot techniques
Shin block
Knee block
Outside block with the arch
Rising parry with the arch
Knife-foot high-kick block
Instep rising block
Instep roundhoukse block
High-kick block
Rokundhokuseshin block
Parry with the ball of the foot
High block with the arch
4 Fighting postures and applications
High fighting position-Two-hand swing postion; High and low position; Feline position; Open-hand-cover position; Antenna position; Crossed hands position; Tanshin position
Middle fighting position-Two-hand swing position; Jion position; Unshakeable position; Enticement position; Reclining-dragon position; Mid-level-arm position; side crossedarms position; Low crossed-arms position; Low crossed-fists position
Low fighting position-Provocation position; Squat; Raised-knee squat; Outstretched-leg crouch; Crouch and rapid rise
5 Combination parry and attack
Simultaneous attack-defense
Simultaneous strikes
Dodge tactic
Combined trap and attack-Outside hooking trap; Inside hooking trap; Descending palm heel; Outside palm-heel trap; Lift with the backs of the wrists; Ascending palm heels; Descending wrist; Outward-directed wrist; Palm-heel scissors; Rising palm heel; Palm-heel pull; Inner knife-hand hook; Roundhouse block trap; Descending knife hand
Part III Formal Exercises
6 Formal exercises-Seienchin; Garyu; Kanku; sushiho; Stick techniques
Part IV Applications
7 Self-defense techniques
General Principles
Swift Straikes as self-defense techniques-Rising forefist strike I, II; Rokundhouse strike; Shoulder strike; Groing strike withthe inner knife-hand; Dokuble knife-hand outside hook; Double knife-hand inside hood; Dazzle I, II; Smash to the groin; Rear elbow thrust; Smash to the groin with the wrist; Foot stamp; Fist-edge blow to the knee; Palm-heel strike to the knee; Wrist ddrive to the groin; Side wrist strike; Wrist drive to teh groin; Side wrist strike; Wrist strike to the side; Right-left knife-hand strike; Heel stamp; rist stirke tot ehrace; Wrist side strike; Inner-fist rising strike
8 Artificial respiration and first aid
Artificial resiration-Bakc method I, II; embrace method; supine method; Prone method
Relief from a strike to teh testicles-Foot-tap treatement; Hip-drop method
Moving an unconscious patient
First aid-Treatment for concussion; Accidents from thrusts and kicks; Blows to teh solar lexus; Kicks to teh genitals; Muscular contusions; Blows to eht face; Bones fractures, sprains, and disclocations; Bone fractures; Sprains; Dislocations
9 Special training
Negative meaning
Positive meaning
Hghest significance
Meaning for the individual
The march of Kyokushinkai Karate across the globe
Addesses of worldwide Kyokushinkai training halls
In the past ten years, the fame and popularity of karate have increased and prospered with tremendous speed. But this happy picture has a less pleasing aspect: behind the constant growth are some uncertainties about the future of this important martial art Karate, evolved through
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long history as one of the most outstanding of the martial disciplines, can play an important role in the spiritual life of each individual and in the building of a better society. Unfortunately, however, the recent flood of new karate books and the burgeoning everywhere of karate training halls are not totally free of an unwholesome side. Many of these works and, sadly, a number of instructors, overlooking karate's true significance, teach and themselves learn technqiues in no more than a superficial manner. Naturally such an approach has no pracital value. Furthermore, techiques learned on the basis of superficiality are useless, no matter how many a person masters.In this book, whch is a challenge to all those who would cheapen karate, Masutasu Oyama has applied his thirty years of experience and his profound knowledge to outstanding advanced techniques evolved and transmitted throught the long annals of Chinese kempo. Based on the important theory of the point and the circle, Oyama karate always stands a man in good stead in actual combat conditions.
All of the techniques introduced in this book are valuable in combat and self-defense, and none of them has ever been presented in print before. The photographs and explanatory texts make even complicated moves easy to follow. Of course, this work is primarily intended for experienced karate men and instructors, but anyone with a certain amount of experience will find it of value.
256 pages, more than 1,500 gravure illus. Cloth-over-boards binding, lamnated jacket, and slipcase. 8 1/2 by 12 inches.
Masutatsu Oyama, born in Korea in 1923, began studying Korean kempo at the age of nine. Ater graduationg from middle school in Seoul, he came to Japan to study at an aviation school in 1938. Although he first undertook to master Kodokan judo, he later switched to karate, in which he made such amazing progress that at seventeen he was second dan and at twenty-two fourth dan. While enrolled at the Takushoku University, he was drafted into the military.
In 1947, immediately after World War II, Oyama won the All-Japan Karate Championship and, after resolving to devote his body and soul to karate, retired to the mountains where, living alone, he practiced the strictest psychological and physical discipline. After he returned to the ordinary world, he began a career of teaching the true karate to people evrywhere. Dring his first trip to the United states, in 1952, in hundreds of exhibitions he proved to thousands of people how astonishing the power of karate is. In those days, his amazing ability to rip the horns from living bulls caused a tremendous sensation but gradually, as his fame spread, his true aim of teaching the essential spirit of the martial arts came to the fore-ground as his students and followers began to establish Oyama-karate training halls all over the globe. Oyama himself, in his frequent trips around the world to research the military techniques of other nations, has expanded the bounds of karate to the extent that today over ten thousand students in five hundred Oyama karate training halls in over forty nations are carrying on his work.
In reply to the pressing demands of countless karate students and fans, in 1958, he published his first book, the record-breaking What Is Karate?, and followed it, in 1965, with another best seller, This Is Karate. In October of 1969, he organized the first All-Japan open karate tournament, which, held in Tokyo, captured the attention of karate men from many lands.
Contents
Preface
Part I Background
1 History
Combat techniques of the ancient west; Egypt; Ancient Greece
Ancient Indian combat techniques
Chinese Kempo
Kempo in lands neighboring with Chinea; Northern and Soutern Kempo; Korean Kempo; Mongolian and central asian combat techniques; South Asia
The Arts of unarmed combat; Okinawa-te
Japanese combat techniques and karate
Part II Free-style practice fighting
2 General points
Circle and the point
Mental atitude
Directing the gaze
Interval
Breathing
3 Follow-up foot techniques
Shin block
Knee block
Outside block with the arch
Rising parry with the arch
Knife-foot high-kick block
Instep rising block
Instep roundhoukse block
High-kick block
Rokundhokuseshin block
Parry with the ball of the foot
High block with the arch
4 Fighting postures and applications
High fighting position-Two-hand swing postion; High and low position; Feline position; Open-hand-cover position; Antenna position; Crossed hands position; Tanshin position
Middle fighting position-Two-hand swing position; Jion position; Unshakeable position; Enticement position; Reclining-dragon position; Mid-level-arm position; side crossedarms position; Low crossed-arms position; Low crossed-fists position
Low fighting position-Provocation position; Squat; Raised-knee squat; Outstretched-leg crouch; Crouch and rapid rise
5 Combination parry and attack
Simultaneous attack-defense
Simultaneous strikes
Dodge tactic
Combined trap and attack-Outside hooking trap; Inside hooking trap; Descending palm heel; Outside palm-heel trap; Lift with the backs of the wrists; Ascending palm heels; Descending wrist; Outward-directed wrist; Palm-heel scissors; Rising palm heel; Palm-heel pull; Inner knife-hand hook; Roundhouse block trap; Descending knife hand
Part III Formal Exercises
6 Formal exercises-Seienchin; Garyu; Kanku; sushiho; Stick techniques
Part IV Applications
7 Self-defense techniques
General Principles
Swift Straikes as self-defense techniques-Rising forefist strike I, II; Rokundhouse strike; Shoulder strike; Groing strike withthe inner knife-hand; Dokuble knife-hand outside hook; Double knife-hand inside hood; Dazzle I, II; Smash to the groin; Rear elbow thrust; Smash to the groin with the wrist; Foot stamp; Fist-edge blow to the knee; Palm-heel strike to the knee; Wrist ddrive to the groin; Side wrist strike; Wrist drive to teh groin; Side wrist strike; Wrist strike to the side; Right-left knife-hand strike; Heel stamp; rist stirke tot ehrace; Wrist side strike; Inner-fist rising strike
8 Artificial respiration and first aid
Artificial resiration-Bakc method I, II; embrace method; supine method; Prone method
Relief from a strike to teh testicles-Foot-tap treatement; Hip-drop method
Moving an unconscious patient
First aid-Treatment for concussion; Accidents from thrusts and kicks; Blows to teh solar lexus; Kicks to teh genitals; Muscular contusions; Blows to eht face; Bones fractures, sprains, and disclocations; Bone fractures; Sprains; Dislocations
9 Special training
Negative meaning
Positive meaning
Hghest significance
Meaning for the individual
The march of Kyokushinkai Karate across the globe
Addesses of worldwide Kyokushinkai training halls
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ISBN
870400010
Publication
Japan Publications, Inc. Tokyo