SHOTOKAN KARATE Volume 2

Shotokan Karate Volume 2 

by Kiyoshi Yamazaki

Chief International Instructor, Japan Karate Do Ryobu-Kai, Kiyoshi Yamazaki sensei —an eight-degree black belt from Ryobukai (Japan Karate Federation) and a ninth-degree Shindo Jinen Ryu—teaches you kata and sparring techniques from beginning through black-belt ranks. His own teacher, Yasuhiro Konishi, learned this style directly from Okinawan masters Funakoshi (shotokan) Mabuni (shito-ryu), Miyagi (goju-ryu) and Choki Motobu. This series includes: warm-ups, strikes and kicks, stances and footwork, black-belt kata, defenses, distance, timing, power and speed training, self-defense techniques, and much more. (Approx. 60 min, each DVD)

• Defensive maneuvers 
• Blocking, punching & kicking 
• Sparring & Jyu Kumite training 
• Kata: Jitte, Bassai Dai, Jion, Kanku Dai, Empi and Hangetsu