Valn Posted August 25, 2001 Share Posted August 25, 2001 At the moment I own the series "Best karate" by Nakayam and "Dynamic karate" by Nakayama. Is there some better books which are worthy of buying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goose Posted August 26, 2001 Share Posted August 26, 2001 Hi Valn, My Sensei (Karateronin) tells me that M. Nakayama's books are excellent, he also recommends that the Beginners Guide to Shotokan Karate: Beginners to Black Belt by John Van Weenen should be read by all of his students, which I find in itself is an excellent read. I suppose, that it all boils down to what you are looking for. _________________ Best Wishes Darryl Garrick 9th Kyu Shotokan Karate Karate International Black Belt Schools (UK) [ This Message was edited by: Goose on 2001-08-26 00:30 ] Goose6th Kyu Shotokan Karate9th Kyu Okinawan KobudoKarate International Black Belt Schools (UK) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valn Posted August 26, 2001 Author Share Posted August 26, 2001 Hey Goose, Thanks I'll definitely look for that book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karateka_latino Posted August 27, 2001 Share Posted August 27, 2001 maybe you can look this titles: KARATE DO KYOHAN: THE MASTER TEXT. KARATE DO MY WAY KARATE DO NYUMON: THE MASTER INTRODUCTORY TEXT. All Three By: GICHIN FUNAKOSHI, The founder of the Shotokan karate style. Bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 Kanazawa writes good books!!!! he has them on kumite and kata! Yeah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G95champ Posted June 1, 2002 Share Posted June 1, 2002 A guy named Bell writes a book called Complete Shotokan that I love. I use it and the G. Funakoshi books as my main text. However like the others have pointed out there are many great books out there on Shotokan. (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloi Posted June 2, 2002 Share Posted June 2, 2002 I've just read Harry Cook's book about the history of Shotokan and it's really impressive with loads of interesting stuff. Here's a link about it - http://www.dragon-tsunami.org/Shotokan/Pages/Shobooks.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaiFightsMS Posted June 2, 2002 Share Posted June 2, 2002 Gloi good to see you. Have you been having lots of good weather for the horse? Just to keep part of this post in the thread have one of the Kanazawa books that is fairly interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitseach Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Hi there, I can only agree with all of the above! You can't really get better than Funakoshi's books, and the Nakayama series. I also recommend "Karate GRappling Methods" by Ian Abernethy (?), which is WELL worth a read for practical applications of katas! Many you'd never have thought of! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My karma will run over your dogma~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbitbob Posted June 17, 2002 Share Posted June 17, 2002 I just read Darryl Craig's "Shihan Te" which is about Bunkai and Oyo and the differences between them. It's quite good, and definitely thought provoking! Andrew Bowerbank's "the Spirit of Karate-do" is also wonderful. It's about Massaami tsuruoka of Toronto's theories of training. He's a Chito Ryu stylist who now teaches Shotokan. There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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