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# Okinawan Karate: Teachers, Styles and Secret Techniques

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good reference book on karate schools
*by S***. on March 29, 2017*

Beware, Mark Bishop is coming to your dojo to review it !!!Good reference book on karate schools. Some info should be taken with a grain of salt (most of it is, I think, quite accurate), but a very good read non the less. If you have some humor and can take some distance from the subject, this book can be hilarious at times (the English guy coming to give his remarks on a dojo as he was some gourmet review for the Michelin Restaurant Guide).Anyway this is a very good book and it contains some good info about teachers and their lineage, and there is an exhaustive list of kata by shools.The "secret technique" is a bit of a buy bait, but there is few interesting interpretations of obscure or old techniques, that can, be considered "secret" by some.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ second edition
*by B***S on June 11, 2014*

Sensei Mark Bishop's book is a rare, objective, unbiased look into the unique world of the "Okinawan karates". As a practioner of Goju-ryu and Isshin-ryu, after receiving my !st dan in Tae Kwon Do, I loved his well researched, academic style of writing. His thorough review of the histories of styles, their masters and their uniqueness, is complete and accurate. In a day in age where cd's are the vehicle of martial arts information transference, this "book" is a treasure.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the MUST HAVE book on the subject
*by C***S on January 13, 2012*

I purchased the original edition many years ago, and last month bought several copies of the 2nd edition from Amazon for myself as well as X'mas gifts to my students.As someone who is interested in the history of Okinawan Karate-Do, I found this book highly useful. This is one of two "must have" English books on the subject, the other being "Karate-Do : History and Philosophy" by Takao Nakaya. Readers will find very similar and complementary information on both book, the difference being more due to difference of the authors' perspective rather than factual error.The majority of the information in the book came from the author's personal interviews with the various Okinawan masters. The coverage of the various Okinawan styles are rather comprehensive. In addition to Karate-Do, the author also included 2 chapters on Kobudo (traditional weapons of Okinawa).However, there are a couple of issues that cost the book a 5-star rating.1] The author can make the book a more scholarly text by dating the interviews. This would be invaluable to future researchers in the history of Karate-Do in Okinawa.[2] The subtitle of the book is "Teachers, styles and secret techniques". The "secret techniques" part is rather thin and anyone who want to discover any thing "secret" from this book will be disappointed.DISCLOSURE : I am a student of Takao Nakaya Shihan, the author of the other book I mentioned above.

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