Shotokan's Secret: The Hidden Truth Behind Karate's Fighting Origins
Bruce D. Clayton
This is the first book to dissect the lore and reveal the origins and purpose of the art of shotokan. It describes how karate was invented by the world's only unarmed bodyguards to protect the world's only unarmed king against Americans. In 1853, before the American Civil War, the king of Okinawa was caught in a confrontation between the shogun's implacable samurai and an invading force of U.S. Marines. Trapped between katana and bayonets, the king's unarmed guards faced impossible odds and narrowly avoided a costly bloodbath.
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Year:
2004
Publisher:
Black Belt Communications
Language:
english
Pages:
329
ISBN 10:
0897501446
ISBN 13:
9780897501446
File:
PDF, 21.76 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2004
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