Sudden Attack Defense: Traditional One-step Sparring for Today's World

Product Description In most schools of karate, one-step sparring is taught as a gradual introduction to freestyle sparring. In reality, freestyle has very little in common with one-step sparring and less with self-defense. The Okinawan masters knew that one-step sparring was the way to apply what was learned in kata. Now you can learn what the masters knew! By varying your one-step sparring practice you learn to react to unexpected attacks. Adjusted and varied one-step sparring creates an ascending hierarchy to the more realistic drills of SAD (Sudden Attack Defense) and CAD (Combat Attack Defense). This book is about that ascension. Approx. 300 photos“So full of functional information, you will have to read it several times!” About the Author Tony Annesi, a martial artist since 1964, has earned dan-ranks in Judo, aiki-ju-jutsu, and karate and has researched numerous other martial arts. Annesi is the director of Bushido-kai BUDOYA, which markets martial arts videos, books, manuals, and other educational materials. He serves as chief officer of Bushido-kai KENKYUKAI, an organization dedicated to the development of traditional martial arts in the modern world and specifically of the Takeshin Sogo Budo, which it administrates from its Bushido-kai HOMBU DOJO, Ashland, Massachusetts. Annesi has written for INSIDE KARATE, BLACK BELT, INSIDE KUNG-FU, MASTERS OF SELF-DEFENSE, FIGHTER INTERNATIONAL and other publications. He is the author 8 Aiki-ju-jutsu Manuals, 6 Karate Manuals, and of Cracking the Kata Code, The Principles of Advanced Budo, Expressing the Budo, Sudden Attack Defense, Tales of the Dojo, The Dojo Files, Elevated Elementals, and Comparative Aiki in Action. Many of the above titles in video format as well as numerous kata analysis videos are available from Bushido-kai Productions at www.Bushido-kai.net. He has also written 1969, Loss of Innocence, a book of short stories, and The Shangrilla Artifacts, a fantasy novel trilogy.