Black belt karate : the intensive course / Hirokazu Kanazawa ; foreword by Masatoshi Nakayama ; translated by Richard Berger

Karate : the fundamentals -- Using the hands and feet -- 1. Hands and arms -- 2. Feet and legs -- Stances -- Breathing techniques for karate -- Breathing routine following each series of techniques -- Mukus¯o (silent meditation) -- ch. 1. Basic techniques -- Lesson 1 -- Warm-up exercises -- Sonoba-zuki (punching while standing in place) -- Mae-geri (front snap kick) 1 -- Lesson 2 -- Zenkutsu-dachi (front stance) -- Gyaku-zuki (reverse punch) -- Mae-geri (front snap kick) 2 -- Lesson 3 -- Oi-zuki (lunge punch) 1 -- Gedan-barai (downward block) -- Oi-zuki (lunge punch) 2 -- Mae-geri (front snap kick) 3 -- Tenshin (body rotation) with gedan-barai -- ch. 2. Expanding on the basics -- Lesson 4 -- Uraken-uchi (back-fist strike) -- Kiba-dachi (straddle-leg stance) -- Empi-uchi (elbow strike) -- Yoko-geri ke-age (side snap kick) -- Lesson 5 -- J¯odan age-uke (upper-level rising block) -- Ch¯udan soto ude-uke (middle-level outside-to-inside block) -- Uchi ude-uke (inside-to-outside block) -- Kihon ippon kumite (basic one-step kumite) 1 -- Lesson 6 -- Ch¯udan shut¯o-uke (middle-level knife-hand block) 1 -- K¯okutsu-dachi (back stance) -- Ch¯udan shut¯o-uke 2 -- Yoko-geri kekomi (side thrust kick) -- Gohon kumite (five-step kumite) -- ch. 3. Kata, basic combination techniques and sparring basics -- Lesson 7 -- Tettsuui-uchi (hammer-fist strike) -- Kata : heian shodan -- Lesson 8 -- Mawashi-geri (roundhouse kick) -- Kihon (basic) combinations -- Lesson 9 -- Shut¯o-uchi (knife-hand strike) -- J¯uji-uke (X-block) -- Kihon ippon kumite (basic one-step kumite) 2 -- ch. 4. Arm-leg combinations, kata and basic free-sparring -- Lesson 10 -- Arm/leg kihon (basic) combinations -- Ushiro-geri (back kick) -- Mikazuki-geri (crescent kick) -- Lesson 11 -- Haiwan-uke (back-arm block) -- Kata : heian nidan -- Ura-zuki (close punch) -- Lesson 12 -- Jiy¯u ippon kumite (free-style one-step kumite) -- ch. 5. From self-defense to nunchaku -- Lesson 13 -- Nidan-geri (double jump kick) -- Tobi yoko-geri (jumping side kick) -- Lesson 14 -- Jiy¯u kumite (free sparring) -- Self defense techniques -- Using training equipment -- Lesson 15 -- Nunchaku -- Tameshi-wari (test breaking) -- Shih¯o-wari (board breaking in four directions) -- ch. 6. Building future training menus -- Lesson 16 -- Lesson 17 -- Lesson 18 -- Kata : tekki shodan -- Glossary of Japanese karate terms