Karate as the Art of Killing: A Study of Its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shito-Ryu Book by Masayuki Shimabukuro & Leonard Pellman Gianni Grippo Burning Step)

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making the bokken (wooden sword) and jo (wooden staff) essential components of a complete Aikido education

The Kodachi (short sword) is the final weapon he carries

striking from the guard

18th Movement: Nukete shikotachi

Karate as the Art of Killing: A Study of Its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shito-Ryu Book by Masayuki Shimabukuro & Leonard Pellman Gianni Grippo Burning Step)This comprehensive overview of karate connects the dots between its philosophical and spiritual foundations with its original purpose: to kill an attacker swiftlyand brutally. Prior to 1900, karate d was exclusively an art of unarmed self defense. Its practice was designed for life or death situationseffectively, an art of killing. Here, authors Leonard Pellman and the late Masayuki Shimabukuro restore karate to its original intent. They move karate