Bo, Karate Weapon of Self-defense

Bo, Karate Weapon of Self-defense
Author: Fumio Demura
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1976
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780897500197

Fumio Demura covers stances, striking, blocking, combinations, sparring, and an entire bo kata.

Tonfa

Tonfa
Author: Fumio Demura
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1982
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780897500807

In this fully illustrated book, Fumio Demura explores the full range of tonfa tactics including stances, karate and tonfa similarities, tonfa striking techniques, and self-defense applications. Demura is a member of Black Belt's Hall of Fame.

Sai, Karate Weapon of Self-defense

Sai, Karate Weapon of Self-defense
Author: Fumio Demura
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1974
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780897500104

This fully illustrated book covers gripping, flipping, stances, blocks, karate and sai similarities, movements, footwork, combinations and sparring. Fumio Demura is an expert in traditional karate weapons and an international ambassador of karate.

Advanced Tonfa

Advanced Tonfa
Author: Tadashi Yamashita
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1987
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780897501170

In this definitive book on advanced tonfa techniques, weapons expert Tadashi Yamashita covers gripping, flipping, blocking, striking, block and counter, a karate kata adapted for tonfa, kumite, self-defense and a traditional tonfa kata.

The Complete Book of Karate Weapons

The Complete Book of Karate Weapons
Author: Theodore L. Gambordella
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Martial arts weapons
ISBN: 9780873646291

A manual on the offensive and defensive use of karate weapons-- the knife, the yawara, the tonfa, the staff, the bo, the nunchaku, and the sai.

Advanced Nunchaku

Advanced Nunchaku
Author: Fumio Demura
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1976
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780897500210

This volume includes variations of twirling and swinging, with two separate training kata for nunchaku. Fumio Demura is an expert in kendo, aikido, and kobudo. Dan Ivan is also a member of Black Belt's Hall of Fame.

Nunchaku, Karate Weapon of Self-defense

Nunchaku, Karate Weapon of Self-defense
Author: Fumio Demura
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1971
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780897500067

All-Japan karate champion Fumio Demura demonstrates the movements and fighting applications of the nunchaku. This book features gripping stances, blocking, striking, footwork, nunchaku and karate similarities, and more than 20 defenses against other weapons.

Kobudo Bo-Jutsu

Kobudo Bo-Jutsu
Author: Helmut Kogel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Martial arts weapons
ISBN: 9781841261720

Bo-Jutsu is a martial art of traditional Japanese longstick fighting. This special martial art has its originon the Ryu Kyu Islands of Okinawa. In Kobudo - Bo-Jutsu,the beginner will find a systematic introduction into thebasics of Bo fighting techniques. The advanced studentwill get important insights into training instructions,and ......

Bojutsu The Matsumoto System

Bojutsu The Matsumoto System
Author: Matsumoto Torata
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544885179

A translation and reproduction of a Japanese book about Bojutsu. Matsumoto Torata developed this system of Bojutsu (fighting with a staff) in the 1920s. He intended this system to be used in Junior High Schools as well as by people in the community as a method of self-defense. His training methodology likely originated with the Shingyoto Muto Ryu school of martial arts. First time in English.

Fumio Demura: My Story

Fumio Demura: My Story
Author: Fumio Demura
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692982150

"Fumio Demura: My Story" tells the story of the life of Fumio Demura, one of the world's most celebrated Masters of Martial Arts, particularly in the arts of Shito-Ryu Karate-Do, Kobudo (weapons), and Batto-Do (sword). Mr. Demura describes his childhood in Japan, his development and emergence as a martial artist, his many experiences and adventures teaching in the United States since 1965, growing his organization, Shito-Ryu Karate-Do Genbu-Kai, and the many contributions he has made to Martial Arts. This beloved and revered Martial Arts Master, known as Sensei Demura to perhaps millions of people, has spent his life bringing Martial Arts to the American people and to people all over the world, fueled by his desire to help people everywhere have happy, successful lives. Today, Mr. Demura continues the further development of the arts of Karate-Do, Kobudo, and Batto-Do, as well as his ongoing efforts to teach them to as many people as he can reach.