SPARRING SKILLS & STRATEGIES

an Old School manual with the original "rescued" drawings

In most schools of karate, freestyle sparring is taught so that students are prepared to enter tournaments with the idea that non-contact tournament sparring is the safest way to simulate two opponents fighting each other. In reality, although sparring has something in common with fighting, no sparring (neither contact nor non-contact) can actually teach what is needed for self-protection in a C.A.D. (Combat Attack Deefnse) situation. At Hanshi Tony Annesi’s Bushido-ka,i non-contact sparring was taught so that the students develop skills and strategies that could be used in a C.A.D. situation. To that end, in the 1970s, Hanshi Annesi created a manual that illustrated examples of the sparring skills and strategies and challenged the reader with various suggestions in order to broaden his/her perspectives and vary his/her skills. In this volume, Hanshi Annesi has recreated his original manual complete with his original drawings rescued and refurbished, giving it that old-school flavor. This book also serves as an adjunct to Hanshi Annesi SUDDEN ATTACK DEFENSE,One-Step Sparring for Today’s World.

SPARRNG SKILLS & STRATEGIES

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EXPRESSING the BUDO
A Traditional Japanese Budo Dictionary

with essays to stimulate further thought

This volume is actually four dictionaries in one. The first dictionary is a Japanese (Romaji) to English Budo Jiten (dictionary), the second arranges the same words for English speaking people but by subject. The third is an English to Japanese Budo Jiten, the fourth arranges the same words for English speaking people by subject (since it is often difficult to find a word in Japanese when you are not sure of the English). In the dictionaries organized by subject, words may be listed under several topics. These references are constructed so that a student who may not know the desired word (or may know only part of it) can more easily solicit it. The student would then look up the Japanese word in the first dictionary to be sure of its intended meaning.