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By Bruce Haines

ISBN-10: 0804819475

ISBN-13: 9780804819473

A vintage textual content valuable via martial artists for over two decades, Karate's heritage & Traditions used to be lengthy famous because the so much authoritative resource on martial arts background and method. Now Bruce Haines, historian and martial artist, has up-to-date this wealthy resource to mirror alterations that experience taken position within the final decades.

This designated yet well–rounded martial arts consultant covers the heritage of the Asian struggling with arts from antiquity to trendy occasions, answering a number of the questions presently being debated through martial artists around the globe. every one bankruptcy describes the struggling with arts of masters in lots of parts, including:

  • Okinawa
  • Japan
  • China
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Thailand
  • Cambodia
  • Vietnam
  • Korea
  • The Philippines

Undertaking years of exhausting study utilizing the main trustworthy historic information, Haines has stuffed in lots of of the gaps within the histories of the struggling with arts and has confirmed fake many renowned myths.

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