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Discusses about etiquette, kata, stances, and techniques of the goju-ryu system as practiced in Okinawa. This book includes a detailed section on sanchin breathing and step-by-step photos with foot patterns.
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Here in a carefully detailed, fully illustrated text, Seikichi Toguchi presents the fundamentals of Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate. This remarkable book takes the student form simpler kata through a progression of increasingly more complicated bunkai and kumite expressly designed by Toguchi to appeal to
Contents
1 History
Karate's mission and aim
History of Okinawan Karate-Do
Tkhe development of modern karate-do
The origin of Goju-ryu
Master Kanryo Higashionna
Master Chojun Miyagi
2 Hookiyu Kata
Necessity of unified kata and its meaning
Merits of unified kata
The curriculum and its combination
Ranking system and curriculum
Hookiyu kata subjects
3 Basics
Enbusen diagram
Foot scale
Fist scale
Musubidachi stance
Heikodachi stance
Kihondachi stance
Basic walking
Zenkustsu dachi stance
Sho (small) zenkutsu dachi stance
Shikiodachi stance
Renoji dachi stance
Hachiji dachi stance
How to make the seiken fist
How to use the seiken fist
Kamae or basic on-guard position
Beginning formality
Ending formality
Chudan tsuki (Middle punch)
Jodan tsuki (High punch)
Gedan tsuki (Low punch)
Chudan uke (Middle block)
Jodan uke (High block)
Gedan uke (Low block)
4 Hookiyu Kata No. 1 and its bunkai
Morote tsuki (Double punch)
Shihei shuto uchi (Side chop)
How to read the diagrams
Kata and bunkai
5 Kiso Kumite No. 1
Yoko kentsui uchi (Hammer punch to the temple)
Age tsuki (Upper cut)
Set I, II, III, IV, V, VI
6 Kiso kumite No. 2
Mae shuto uchi (Front chop strike)
Soko tsuki (Under cut)
Set I, II, III, IV, V, VI
7 Gekisai No. 1 Kata and bunkai
Shomen geri (Front kick)
Tate empi (Elbow attack)
Shomen geri/Tate empi (Front kick/Elbow attack) Combination
Shomen geti/Tate empi Combination blocking sequence
Uraken uchi (Back fist strike)
Kata and bunkai
8 Sanchin
Zen and sanchin
Sanchin training method
Sanchin walking
The five techniques in the breathing method
Symbols for sanchin breathing
Clarification of techniques used in Nos. 6-46
Clarification of techniques used in Nos. 47-54
Sanchin exercise
Glossary
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students of all schools and styles. It is karate at its best.Contents
1 History
Karate's mission and aim
History of Okinawan Karate-Do
Tkhe development of modern karate-do
The origin of Goju-ryu
Master Kanryo Higashionna
Master Chojun Miyagi
2 Hookiyu Kata
Necessity of unified kata and its meaning
Merits of unified kata
The curriculum and its combination
Ranking system and curriculum
Hookiyu kata subjects
3 Basics
Enbusen diagram
Foot scale
Fist scale
Musubidachi stance
Heikodachi stance
Kihondachi stance
Basic walking
Zenkustsu dachi stance
Sho (small) zenkutsu dachi stance
Shikiodachi stance
Renoji dachi stance
Hachiji dachi stance
How to make the seiken fist
How to use the seiken fist
Kamae or basic on-guard position
Beginning formality
Ending formality
Chudan tsuki (Middle punch)
Jodan tsuki (High punch)
Gedan tsuki (Low punch)
Chudan uke (Middle block)
Jodan uke (High block)
Gedan uke (Low block)
4 Hookiyu Kata No. 1 and its bunkai
Morote tsuki (Double punch)
Shihei shuto uchi (Side chop)
How to read the diagrams
Kata and bunkai
5 Kiso Kumite No. 1
Yoko kentsui uchi (Hammer punch to the temple)
Age tsuki (Upper cut)
Set I, II, III, IV, V, VI
6 Kiso kumite No. 2
Mae shuto uchi (Front chop strike)
Soko tsuki (Under cut)
Set I, II, III, IV, V, VI
7 Gekisai No. 1 Kata and bunkai
Shomen geri (Front kick)
Tate empi (Elbow attack)
Shomen geri/Tate empi (Front kick/Elbow attack) Combination
Shomen geti/Tate empi Combination blocking sequence
Uraken uchi (Back fist strike)
Kata and bunkai
8 Sanchin
Zen and sanchin
Sanchin training method
Sanchin walking
The five techniques in the breathing method
Symbols for sanchin breathing
Clarification of techniques used in Nos. 6-46
Clarification of techniques used in Nos. 47-54
Sanchin exercise
Glossary
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