Genuine Okinawan Karate was developed as a fighting tool.Non-Okinawan Karate are for other purposes.Karate practitioners, scholars, and everyone caring about Asian martial arts and its culture will enthusiastically appreciate this eye-opening work.Dr. Bayer substantiates further how the art Karate was used to prepare a nation (Japan) for total war, how it was deliberately industrialized into a worldwide Japanized Karate-Do inflation...

Genuine karate is an Okinawan martial art for self-defense; its principle of “never changing kata” is critical to its effectiveness“The changes made to karate in mainland Japan and in America have altered karate so intrinsically that it can no longer claim to be genuine karate.” Dr. Hermann Bayer, Ph.D., examines how Japan re-interpreted Okinawan karate to create its own unique style of karate-do, and how Japanese and American changes resulted in a modern karate-sp...

The transfer of a centuries-old Japanese fine arts principle into empty-hand fighting.In this book in the Analysis of Karate series, Hermann Bayer, Ph.D. examines Shu Ha Ri and its influence on modern karate. Bayer examines why and how this centuries old Japanese fine arts concept has changed how karate is practiced in modern times.Shu Ha Ri is a genuine Japanese fine arts principle that was later applied into Japanese mar...