A manual on the offensive and defensive use of karate weapons-- the knife, the yawara, the tonfa, the staff, the bo, the nunchaku, and the sai.
This fully illustrated book covers gripping, flipping, stances, blocks, karate and sai similarities, movements, footwork, combinations and sparring.
This is the Complete Book of Jiu Jitsu Techniques for beginners through Masters. You will learn throws, chokes, hold downs, submissions, escapes, wrist locks. Everything you need to be a Jiu Jitsu Master
Fumio Demura covers stances, striking, blocking, combinations, sparring, and an entire bo kata.
Nunchuka, Knife, Bo, Tonfa, Staff, Gambretta, Sai, Cane, Belt and Rope. Learn to Master all the Martial Arts Weapons. As taught by the best selling Grandmaster Ted Gambordella.
In this fully illustrated book, Fumio Demura explores the full range of tonfa tactics including stances, karate and tonfa similarities, tonfa striking techniques, and self-defense applications.
A compilation and updating of five previously published books on martial arts weaponry.
In this definitive book on advanced tonfa techniques, weapons expert Tadashi Yamashita covers gripping, flipping, blocking, striking, block and counter, a karate kata adapted for tonfa, kumite, self-defense and a traditional tonfa kata.
If you study and practice well with the weapons, then your movement will be very natural and your body will become one with the tools (weapons) and the movement. I hope you have enjoyed this book.
This volume includes variations of twirling and swinging, with two separate training kata for nunchaku. Fumio Demura is an expert in kendo, aikido, and kobudo. Dan Ivan is also a member of Black Belt's Hall of Fame.
ARE THERE DISADVANTAGES TO BASING MMA ON KARATE? Karate training does not involve much contact and karateka will find themselves at a disadvantage when switching to the very physical MMA which has a heavy impact on the body.