Injury-Free Karate

by Paul Perry

Book Overview

In the past, many students have inadvertently succumbed to injury because of a lack of real understanding about how to execute techniques properly and about the effects of poor technique on the body's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713635738
• ISBN13: 9780713635737
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: A&C Black
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Get it Right before you Fight

As a Karate Instructor, I wish that I had bought this book many years ago. Luckily, I've been taught the correct methods by my own Sensei's and have therefore taught the same correct techniques to my students. Although the book is dated (1992), there are plenty of clear pictures & diagrams to enable you to understand exactly what is being demonstrated. The book deals with correct form & technique in stances, blocks, strikes, punches & kicks. It goes into detail about how a certain move would be executed correctly and explains both good & bad posture and the consequences and damage to muscles, bones & ligaments of bad or incorrect body alignment. The author trained with Sensei Kanazawa and also trained & represented the SKI for many years. There Forward by Kanazawa at the beginning is a glowing testimony to Paul. I highly recommend this book to any karate instructor (Shotokan) or any karate-ka that has ambitions to go beyond Shodan and wants to reach retirement without being a cripple. There are a couple of "tiny" mistakes in the photo's where occasionally the performer has his toes curled forward or his head dipped forward (as in mai geri), but if you're an instructor yourself, these inaccuracies will be instantly apparent.

Injury Free Karate - Sensei Perry- a Master of Masters

I have read this book because Sensei Perry is my sensei. The book is fantastic and gives martial artists an insight into body mechanics and how their art can be improved. Sensei Perry is beyond the beyond when it comes to his knowledge and understanding of how to use the body as well as karate and its applications. Perry Sensei is not only a karate master but also a tai chi master, yoga master and chi kung master and he is accessable to anyone wanting to improve their art. With all these credentials this book is a must read for everyone in the world of martial arts.

Excellent perspective of karate in modern language

This book have many features. First: It make you realize the wrong way to move, and demonstrate how to keep out from injure yourself. Second: It teaches you how karate can be a healing excercise when correctly perform. Third: It teach those particular movements that are not frequently teach in class. Never, never substitude a class with a book, but this kind of book can be an excelent complement to martial art instruction. I have only near 4 years in the art, and I started old (25), but I got this book from the beginning and it prepare me to withstand and follow the class in a very good rate. I not only recommend this book to students, I recommend it to Teachers, 'cause it will get them in the correct perspective of the movements.

A boon for the mature martial artist

Unfortunately, anatomy and physiology is not commonly taught in martial arts classes. The need for some knowledge of these fields becomes more apparent the older the age of the student. Not only does the older student take longer to heal from injuries, but repetitive stress injury becomes a real possibility.This book addresses these issues in a forthright, helpful manner. Perry Sensei has put together a collection of text, diagrams and photographs that illustrate the common ways that even seemingly simple moves can be executed in a fashion that can cause injury.This information is totally applicable across the divisional lines of modern martial arts. His Shotokan background speaks as strongly to my Tae Kwon Do training as to his own discipline. I highly recommend this work.