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| The Way of Kata: A Comprehensive Guide for Deciphering Martial Applications | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lawrence A. Kane, Kris Wilder
Creators: Jeff Cooper, Iain Abernethy
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $10.92
You Save: $14.03 (56%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 215222
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.1 x 1
ISBN: 1594390584
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.815
EAN: 9781594390586
ASIN: 1594390584
Publication Date: October 25, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! 2005 Paperback.
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| Customer Reviews:
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practical and insightful September 18, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
The Way of Kata will bridge the gap between traditional and modern scholars of the martial arts. To those hard core fighters who feel kata is an "evil" that is necessary only for rank promotion, this book will give you a whole new perspective on the fight game. To the traditionalists who "always did it" and know kata is part of being a complete martial artist, if you didn't get the full picture before, you will now.
Martina Sprague, author of Complete Kickboxing and Strength and Power Training for Martial Arts
A great book is an understatement September 17, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Saying The Way of Kata by Lawrence Kane and Kris Wilder is a great book is an understatement. What an addition to traditional Okinawa Karate. This is not another book of complicated and questionable techniques or weird physiological theories.
When I first scanned the chapters and their contents I quickly realized this is a work that is needed and long time coming. Regardless of ones style or system, when it comes to discerning each move of ones kata, this is the book.
I have been studying my martial art for 36 years, and this is not only the best martial art book on kata I own, but a work in a league of its own.
If you obtain the book for just the fifteen general principles to identify effective kata techniques and the twelve discrete rules for deciphering martial applications, it will be well worth it.
Michael E. Odell
Isshin-ryu Northwest Okinawa Karate Association
The Way of Kata September 17, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
What halts progress in the study of kata and its meaning is the lack of a standard and understandable methodology. For decades the exponents of karate have been victim of the what the actual meaning of kata is by those who would tell us in leiu of allowing us to discover. The drive to understand kata is share with the authors by a vast number of students, from many differant schools. This book sets forth the receipe that can be followed by any student or teacher of any style. The authors use the kata of Goju ryu as their vehicle of examples.
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