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Title: Okinawan Karate, The Secret Art of Tuite by Javier Martinez ISBN: 0-9650085-8-4 Publisher: Javier Martinez Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Traditional Okinawan Tuite/Karate
Comment: I highly recommend this book to all who study any Traditional Okinawan style or faithful non-style specific Okinawan style. The author is extremely knowledgeable on the Martial Arts in general and specifically on the Okinawan Ryu Kyu Kenpo. He treats the subject matter in a historically correct way and introduces the "bunkai" (applications) from traditional kata of Okinawa in an easy to understand (even though many years of practice are needed)system of written descriptions and line drawings. A reader would be hard pressed not to follow his theories and techniques.
Obviously the book should be for serious traditional Karate practitioners, but it is also of use for the average layman interested in the historical significance or to whet the appetite to begin their training.
Researchers have been hard at work to uncover the history of traditional karate and have found it to be anything but primitive. Unfortunately it has become watered down in the sense that it was introduced to Japan in a way that would "suit" their culture. This was an intelligent decision as a way of promoting the art of Tote even down to changing the name to Karate. In Japan it is still more sport oriented than the much more difficult aspects of the true Okinawan fighting arts. It is now time to get this message out and many in the karate world are doing just that. The author of this book is one of those practioners.
If you study a Japanese style of Karate think about reading this book and trying a traditional Okinawan style for a while. You'll be extremely impressed (if not really worn out) with the two to three hour training session!
Traditional Karate is not found on every street corner like the ATA (which is "fast food Taekwondo). You have to search for it. It is evident from this reviewer that the author of "Okinawan Karate The Secret Art of Tuite" is highly trained and skilled in the traditional style of Okinawan Isshinryu.
Bravo Mr. Martinez!
Buy this book. You will not be disappointed.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Practical, Detailed Heart of Kata Application
Comment: Yes, there are some gramatical errors in this book. Of course, it is an instructional manual and not a literary offering. The author's verbage did not inhibit my ability to understand what he was explaining. Martinez is a native of Puerto Rico whose karate background is Isshin-ryu.
Isshin-ryu includes 8 empty-hand kata: Seisan, Seiunchin, Naihanchi, Wanso, Chinto, Kusanku, Sanchin, and the kata designed by the style's founder, Tatsuo Shimabuku, Sunsu. The first six kata mentioned in the last sentence are covered in this book (Sanchin and Sunsu are not), with complete demonstrations of each application offered in clearly understandable line drawings.
Martinez's approach is instructional. He offers some information on Okinawan karate history, and offers a hypothesis on how tuite ("grappling") lies at the heart of what many of us thought, until recently, were striking arts. Kata is the main teaching tool, and Martinez unravels what for all intents and purposes may have been encoded kata. His theory is convincing, his methodology logical.
Martinez has also written four other books (booklets really--about 50-60 pages each, nicely printed and covered) on kata bunkai (form applications), covering kata Naihanchi, Chinto, Kusanku, and Seiunchin. The difference between this volume and the others is that the four kata booklets demonstrate with photographs instead of drawings, and include the demonstration of the kata by the author, and then the section on bunkai (application). This volume on tuite does not show the one-man kata sequences. While the booklets are more thorough in their treatment of technical details (not so markedly so that you'd "have" to buy them if you already know the kata), the visual detail of the line drawings in this book are easier to discern, especially with relation to hand placement.
In this book, Martinez also deals in great detail with different methods of punching, twisting, and body movement before he begins to deal with the 6 kata of the book (pages 1-78). The rest deals with a breakdown of the applications for the six kata: Seisan, Seiunchin, Naihanchi, Wanso, Chinto, Kusanku (pages 79-200).
This is a terrific book, and does a lot to dispell the myth that Okinawan arts are primative and limited to striking alone. Then again I suppose primative vs. technologically advanced has more to do with how much study a person is willing to put into studying their chosen discipline.
Rating: 5
Summary: What most instructors don't know
Comment: Excellent book/information. I have studied Shotokan(12 yrs) and Shorin Ryu(4 yrs to current). I have always been intrigued by instructors explanations of techniques in kata for these styles. Their explanations never work, but we always accepted it as good students. It occurred to me a while back that most instructors simply don't know beyond "punch, kick, block". In this book and a few others, we good students can become better. Some of the techniques in this book almost "snap in" to Shorin ryu kata. These techniques are the ones that are simply omitted from Shorin ryu kata. These are the techniques that your mother never told you about:) I am now working at my dojo to integrate these techniques into the Shorin kata.
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Title: Isshinryu Seiuchin Kata, Secrets Revealed by Javier Martinez ISBN: 0965008533 Publisher: Javier Martinez Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Isshinryu Kusanku Kata Secrets Revealed by Javier Martinez ISBN: 0965008517 Publisher: Javier Martinez Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Shihan-Te: The Bunkai of Karate Kata by Darrell Max Craig, Paul Anderson ISBN: 1886969884 Publisher: YMAA Publications Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Bible of Karate: Bubishi by Patrick McCarthy, Patrick McCarhty ISBN: 0804820155 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Secrets of Okinawan Karate: Essence and Techniques by Kiyoshi Arakaki ISBN: 4770027591 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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