Black Belt Karate: The Intensive Course

Description

In Black Belt Karate, Hirokazu Kanazawa, the most respected figure in the karate world, offers a systematic approach to basic karate, and provides an intensive training course.

Karate is a martial art that may be practiced by anyone, without reference to age or gender, and can also be undertaken at any time all over a person’s life. The training system employed in karate comprises three main areas: kihon (basics), kumite (sparring), and kata (forms).

Using meticulously detailed explanations and illustrative photos, Kanazawa provides readers with an intensive self-study training course designed to be accessible to beginners, in addition to to those already at an intermediate level. If practiced incessantly and diligently over the course of a year, a practitioner will have the ability to attain black-belt-level proficiency.

Praise for Black Belt Karate:
“By following each and every page of this book as if receiving instruction directly from Mr. Kanazawa, I consider that through the years, with careful practice, gaining proficiency is all but guaranteed. For anyone setting out to master karate-do, you hold in your hands a fine book indeed.”—The late Masatoshi Nakayama, former chief instructor of the Japan Karate Association and writer of Kodansha’s Best Karate series