An authoritative text supporting the newcomer to karate with all they need to know up to black belt level. Packed with clear photographs detailing techniques & kata (the combinations of techniques students need to master to progress through the belts) this book will be clearly laid out & designed to take the student step by step through the progression of the martial art taking each belt in turn. Photographs will be accompanied by clear instructions from the author a trained instructor with his own karate school. Karate is a martial art that focuses on the application of strikes using predominantly the hands & feet. It originated in Japan & has become popular throughout the world. There are many styles of karate but the most widely practised outside of Japan is Shotokan Karate. Training in karate is normally divided into three sections: the basic technique; kata or sequencing of techniques to imaginary opponents; & kumite the sparring done with an opponent. Gradings are the exams needed to be passed to progress on to the next level. Around three months is needed to progress through each grading. There are typically three or four gradings per year each with a syllabus. In total there are 10 gradings to be passed in order to get a black belt
- this on average takes a student 4 years to attain. This book would cover all the training needed to attain a black belt.
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Following the success of his first book The Shotokan Karate Handbook -- Beginner to Black Belt the author felt there was a need for a manual to assist the more experienced student. Therefore he has concentrated on more advanced techniques such as Kihon lppon Kumite Jiyu lppon Kumite sets 6 & 7 & all the remaining Katas in Shotokan Karate. It is important that Karate Ka are aware that time effort & practice are still the main factors in working towards perfecting not only ones skills but also ones inner mind & attitudes towards the art. This book is meant as a guide to Karate Ka -- it cannot take the place of your Sensei (teacher). ...

There have been numerous books written on the subject of Karate including many that claim to show an easy step-by-step way of becoming a black belt by the third chapter. In a martial art such as Karate it is extremely rare to find a book that can help the student with the physical aspect of Karate to any great degree. However every now & then a publication appears on the bookstands that can do just that. One such book is this one. The following pages contain a wealth of information on the Kihon Kata & Kumite aspects of Traditional Shotokan. Written in an easy to follow manner & supplemented by an extremely comprehensive set of photographs this handbook is easily one of the more superior publications available. ...

A handsomely illustrated photographic account by the bestselling author of ' Tommy' of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War. Richard Holmes one of Britain's best-known military historians (and President of the British Commission of Military History) has selected over 200 photographs taken for the most part by officers & men rather than by official photographers -- mostly unfamiliar ones located in archive collections regimental museums & private sources. The book will deal with the whole of the British Army's experience of the First World War -- Gallipoli Mesopotamia & so on -- & not just on the Western Front. The photographs will be grouped thematically as extended picture essays; topics include the pre-war army & mobilisation of 1914; the contribution made by nurses; medical treatment & the wounded; infantrymen & their weapons; the campaign in Mesopotamia & more. Like ' Tommy' the book is about people rather than things about the human experience of war rather than its strategy or tactics & at least as much about the everyday or commonplace -- a latrine here or a plate of bully beef there -- as about the lofty or portentous. It shows us the dirt beneath the fingernails of history. ...

' Now the seas were more awesome in their raging insanity. Each mountain of glassy grey rose high above the raft shielding it for a few seconds from the whip of the wind its crest blowing off like the plume of an Etruscan helmet before it slid down collapsing upon itself in the tumbling roar of breaking water.' In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War two freebooting adventurers
- one a flamboyant Irish American the other an impeccable young Englishman
- pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters & ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land & sea so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror.. .

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Wendy Craig had a strong faith from an early age but fame & the demands of show business led her away from God. Then later in life an emptiness & loneliness led her to a spiritual experience that took her back to her faith. Show Me the Way is a collection of inspirational writing that has encouraged her own journey through life. She explores why these writings are important to her & provides a book of reassurance & insight for others. ...

When Linda Balfour a young mother is found butchered in small-town southern Illinois a coded inscription stamped in blood on the back of her head brands her mutilated body. For Chief Prosecutor Martin Vail the Bloody insignia drags up memories hed like to forget
- memories of Bishop Rushman slashed & dismembered ten years ago by an altar boy Aaron Stampler. But if Stampler is locked away he cannot have murdered Linda. With his career
- & his life
- on the line Vail needs answers fast before the killer signs someone elses life away.


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Over 500 pages of classic super hero adventure are collected in this value-priced volume! The Fastest Man Alive" is back ...

Written by DENNIS ONEIL & ELLIOT S. MAGGIN Art by NEAL ADAMS DICK GIORDANO MIKE GRELL VINCE COLLETTA & others Cover by NEAL ADAMS Green Lanterns SHOWCASE PRESENTS series continues with issues 76-100 including the famed stories that teamed Green Lantern with Green Arrow in which the two heroes face issues of the day including womens rights political corruption religious intolerance & more
- all while battling evil. This volume also

Includes:: adventures from GLs 1976 relaunch collected here for the first time! On sale APRIL 20
- 496 pg B&W



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The stakes are raised in the second book of this glamorous new horse riding series set in the USA
- winner takes all as the rivals
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