Winning Kumite

This introduction to sport competition teaches you in detail how to use your potential and your technical skills to defeat your opponents in Karate competition. Master Miyake shows hundred of basic, intermediate, and advanced sparring combinations used by the great karate champions in the sport. This is the perfect guide to understand offensive and defensive tactics as used in elite competition, making it the most authoritative handbook of its kind about the subject of kumite. This book is for all students attempting to bridge the gap between Karate basics and winning tournament competition. It is heavily illustrated with sequential photographs of Miyake Sensei in action.