Volume 1 features warm-ups, a strong foundation, stances, hand techniques, kicking techniques, blocking, fluid basics, learning to maneuver, kata (pre-kata, pinan shodan), and self-defense techniques.

Karate Wadoryu From Japan to the West is the story of Otsuka Hironori's unique school of karate. Covering the schools origins in 1920's Tokyo right up to the present day. It discusses his time with Funakoshi Gichin, Mabuni Kenwa and Motobu Choki. Otsuka's earliest students such as Kawakami, Kihara, Kato, Ota, Ueno, Eriguchi, Hirakawa and many more are also introduced and their contribution discussed. The establishment of overseas branches of Wadoryu karate in Europe and America is covered with a particular focus on activities in the UK led by the ABKA and subsequently the UKKF / UKKW. All major competition events are detailed through to the most recent Wadokai World Cup. Based on first hand interviews with leading students of Otsuka. These include Suzuki Tatsuo, Ota Yoshito, Wakabayashi Eichi, Setamatsu Hiromasa, Hakoishi Katsumi, Ishizuka Akira, Arakawa Toru, Ohgami Shingo, Sugiura Kengo, Sakagami Kuniaki and many more. The book also draws on extensive translations from Japanese sourced materials as well as contemporary Western documents. Extensively referenced and containing many rare and previously unpublished photographs, Karate Wadoryu From Japan to the West is essential reading for all students of Japanese karatedo.

Martial Arts and Well-Being explores how martial arts as a source of learning can contribute in important ways to health and well-being, as well as provide other broader social benefits. Using psychological and sociological theory related to behaviour, ritual, perception and reality construction, the book seeks to illustrate, with empirical data, how individuals make sense of and perceive the value of martial arts in their lives. This book draws on data from over 500 people, across all age ranges, and powerfully demonstrates that participating in martial arts can have a profound influence on the construction of behaviour patterns that are directly linked to lifestyle and health. Making individual connections regarding the benefits of practice, improvements to health and well-being – regardless of whether these improvements are ‘true’ in a medical sense – this book offers an important and original window into the importance of beliefs to health and well-being as well as the value of thinking about education as a process of life-long learning. This book will be of great interest to a range of audiences, including researchers, academics and postgraduate students interested in sports and exercise psychology, martial art studies and health and well-being. It should also be of interest to sociologists, social workers and martial arts practitioners. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315448084, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Memoirs of a Karate Fighter is a hard-hitting account of karate training during the 1980s in one of Europe's toughest dojos. In this gripping story, Ralph Robb gives an insight into the training methods and philosophy of the Wolverhampton YMCA karate club - which was once the top club in Britain.The YMCA won innumerable tournaments, and amongst its greatest achievements were two All-styles British Clubs championships, five UK Wado team titles and one Shotokan national team championship (1976 GB Shotokan Karate International).This book is as much about karate as it is about love, friendship, mental illness, the National Front ... and in the end, death. The author is a former Wado R karate champion (UKKW 1982) and a European all-styles silver medallist.

A following book of 'The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate'. It is presented in the same size, and the same format. This book is the following book of 'The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate'. The same size, and the same format.

Wado Ryu Karate/Jujutsu is the third book by master martial arts instructor, Mark Edward Cody. This volume explores the origins, techniques and kata of one of Japan's most traditional martial arts. This is the first book to examine all seventeen kata of the system and is one of the few existing texts written by a native English speaker. Unlike other works on the subject, kata movement is explained in precise detail. The reader is given clear, systematic instruction in the direction, execution and technique of kata movement. Cody chronicles the traditions of Wado Ryu in light of the necessity for innovation and combat effectiveness in the propagation and evolution of ancient fighting systems. Wado Ryu Karate/Jujutsu embodies the ancient martial principle to "Absorb that which is useful". Hironori Ohtsuka created the Wado system by blending the best aspects of Shotokan Karate with Shindo Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu. Following the Founder's example, Cody draws upon his knowledge of Filipino Combat Systems and other arts in his analysis of this Traditional Japanese Fighting Art.