Defend yourself! And learn how to do it right with the only comprehensive book on karate weapons ever published! Shown are the proper usage and katas for seven lethal karate weapons: nunchaku, yawara stick, sai, fighting knife, tonfa, staff and bo.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
A terrible work that should be retired!!!,
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This review is from: Complete Book Of Karate Weapons (Paperback)
This book has an excellent title - makes you think that it is a good reference. Right? Wrong! This book takes "basic" to a new level. I have never seen a reference book as simplistic and amateurish as this. It is obvious in many of the descriptions and pictures that the instructors were making up stuff as they went along. I am a kubodo instructor for a martial arts school in Colorado Springs and I was trying to find something that my students could use as a reference. This was definitely not the book. My white belts in their beginner classes could come up with more professional moves than this. This book was printed in a decade were the hype surrounding martial arts made unscrupulous people "professionals" in an underhanded way to make a quick buck. It is obvious that this is one of those cases.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fiction,
This review is from: Complete Book Of Karate Weapons (Paperback)
I recently bought this book at a used bookstore. I have a collection of books on martial arts weapons both kobudo and others. There is no comparison. Either every weapons expert is wrong or Gambordella is. What do you think the answer is? This book is almost in complete disagreement with the easy to find Demura books. Make up your own mind but it is funny that three of the positive reviews are from Gambordella or his friends.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A fair book on the basic use of karate (Kobudo) weapons.,
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This review is from: The complete book of karate weapons (Hardcover)
This book is somewhat dated (1981) but has some informative material on the basic use of several martial art weapons. This text is organized into seven chapters. The first chapter deals with using and defending against the knife, but I personally did not care for his knife handling or many of the knife defense techniques shown in this text. The second chapter covered Yawara stick techniques and this section showed some interesting short stick techniques, as well as a kata using two mini-batons(Yawara sticks). The third chapter demonstrated the basic use of the Tonfa. The fourth chapter explained the basic use of the police baton or medium size (Hanbo) stick. The Bo (6 foot staff) techniques were shown in chapter five. Chapter six covered the nunchaku and the final chapter showed basic Sai techniques.
In my humble opinion, the high stance and poor form shown by the author performing the techniques in this text is completely opposite from the karate style (Shotokan)and Judo/Jujitsu system I learned in my more than 50 years of combat arts, self-defense and law enforcement training. Nevertheless, beginners may find some value in reading this book. Experts may also be amused and even entertained reading this book. Rating: 3 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Wakizashi-jutsu Manual)
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