Winning Tournament Karate

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Summary: The book offers practical techniques for all martial artists
Review: Chuck Norris a former world middleweight karate champion is the author of a book titled "Winning Tournament Karate". The section of the books which covers attack scenarios is the most worthwhile section of the book. The author does an excellant job through the use of frame by frame photos and text to illustrate various tournament attack scenarios. Each attack scenario's initial move, closing the gap and scoring technique is analyzed and illustrated. Since, the book was published in 1975, there are techniques that are demostrated such as throws which are generally not permitted in semi-contact karate tournaments of today. What you will not see in this book is high flying 360 degree spinning jumping techniques that are seen in tournaments of today. The book however offers sound and practical techniques that can benefit martial artists of all belt ranks.

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Summary: A classic martial arts primer for succeeding in tournaments
Review: Chuck Norris was a world champion black belt competitor in full-contact, no pads, world-class karate tournament competitions long before he moved his considerable fighting skills to the big screen (with Bruce Lee) and TV screen and video productions. The book outlines proven competition tips that are effective for both beginners as well as advanced students. "Winning Tournament Karate" explains practical, tournament-proven techniques for competition success for children, teenagers and men and women of all martial arts styles and skill levels. A classic book that should be part of any well-balanced martial arts book collection

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Summary: THE BEST
Review: I have read many karate, kung fu, and martial arts books. Most of them have been okay, but this book is the best one of them all. It tells you step-by-step on how to preform techniques. This is an excellent book for the intermediate and advanced students. I recomend it to anyone.

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Summary: What a stupid book......
Review: It is a stupid book.... I can't learn abything from this book.

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Summary: Good for what it offers
Review: Martial arts books have come along ways since Chuck Norris penned this book in the mid 1970s. Nonetheless, there are still some good things in it that can motivate the reader to seek out more on the subject.

For example, there is Norris's red-line drill, which is still an excellent training method to push the karateka beyond what he thought was his top speed. He also touches briefly on mental imagery, which is arguably one of the top training methods used today by top athletes in virtually every sport. Lastly, Norris illustrates, with plenty of pictures, his concept of blitzing, that is, charging straight in and launching a hand or foot technique every half step or so.

This is still a good book worthy to be in every fighter's library.

Loren W. Christensen, author of FIGHTER'S FACT BOOK: Over 400 Concepts, Principles & Drills to Make You a Better Fighter

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Summary: Little To Offer
Review: This book, written by Chuck Norris in 1975, the year he retire from sport karate competition, has very little to offer the karate student. The book doesn't have much material in written information, but instead, relies on still photography to teach the karate student certian sport karate techniques, such as entry techniques and striking drills. Overall, the book is a very weak presentation on point fighting.

I highly admire Chuck Norris and if one would rather read books authored by him they should read "The Secret Power Within" or his autobiography. These books are informative and at times, insightful. If someone is looking for a good book on sport karate and how to improve their sparring skills, I highly recommend the superior book "American Freestyle Karate" by Dan Anderson.

Rating:
Summary: Little To Offer
Review: This book, written by Chuck Norris in 1975, the year he retire from sport karate competition, has very little to offer the karate student. The book doesn't have much material in written information, but instead, relies on still photography to teach the karate student certian sport karate techniques, such as entry techniques and striking drills. Overall, the book is a very weak presentation on point fighting.

I highly admire Chuck Norris and if one would rather read books authored by him they should read "The Secret Power Within" or his autobiography. These books are informative and at times, insightful. If someone is looking for a good book on sport karate and how to improve their sparring skills, I highly recommend the superior book "American Freestyle Karate" by Dan Anderson.