Cracking the Kata Code: How Does A Kata Mean? by Tony Annesi
English | April 20, 2016 | ASIN: B01EM5OS0Q | 186 pages | AZW3 | 3.41 MB
English | April 20, 2016 | ASIN: B01EM5OS0Q | 186 pages | AZW3 | 3.41 MB
The benchmark in understanding karate kata! The first book of its kind and there has never been another quite like it: a detailed explanation of the study of kata in karate that applies to any system. Make your kata study infinite!
Chapters include: What You See is Not What you Get; Why Methods Die Out; Change of Structure, Change of Meaning; All Kata is Training; The Value of the Kata Training Method; Kata, Waza, Bunkai and Oyo; The Map is Not the Territory; Other Analogies to Kata; The Kata of Code; Cracking the Code; Types and Modes of Bunkai.
Over 150 photographs.