Okinawan Martial Traditions: te, tode, karate, karatedo, kobudo Paperback – December 6, 2016

The Journal of Asian Martial Arts was a scholarly, peer reviewed quarterly that provided fascinating articles on martial art theory, philosophy, and, yes, technique. When it ceased publishing many budoka were disappointed, and there is still no worthy successor.For the student of Karate, the publication provided groundbreaking research that often explained things that he or she had long wondered about, but didn't know where to even begin looking for the answers to. This is the first volume of what will hopefully be many collections of the articles about the Ryukyu martial traditions.Contributors include Mario McKenna, Mary Boltz, and others who have devoted their lives to trying to understand the minutiae of this way of life. References are amply provided, and often serve as a launching point for further research. Photographs of various pioneer practitioners are mixed In with those of contemporary instructors, and frequently provide insight when combined with the textual points they illustrate.This collection is a must have for the serious student of Karate, and one suspects these articles will be considered classics in the coming decades.

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