CFTS KARATE

Book review by Sensei Dan Young. This book series was written by 9th dan Shito-Ryu instructor Fumio Demura Sensei, who sadly passed away...

At the start of 2023, I began attending seminars with Sensei Simon Oliver and then attending as a guest in his dojo on Friday night....

This book was recommended to me by Sensei Andi Kidd and is without a doubt one of the best kata books I have read and those of you that...

Now that we are slowly (hopefully) coming out of this awful pandemic, which has allowed plenty of time for reading, I would like to share...

Sensei Kidby very kindly loaned me this book to help me with the construction of this web site. The author is a German Karate-ka who has...

The Bubishi is a reference book secretly passed down from master to master over many centuries. It has been refined/edited by many...

I had heard about this book for sometime and thought it was high time I bought a copy. I already owned one of his other books on Tekki...

A Shotokan Karate Book of Facts: Volume I by Leyton, Nursey and Randall This book is exactly what it says on the label. It is an...

This book covers Sensei Kanazawa’s early life before karate which was certainly busy. The book charts his progress through school, family...

This book continues where volume one leaves off and is an ideal sequel. All remaining Shotokan Kata are detailed in this edition...

This book is definitely not a riveting bedtime read! None-the-less it is a very easily read reference book. It has over 500 Shotokan...

To understand karate a little knowledge of other martial arts is essential, indeed for CFTS dan grades (as in some other associations...

An absolutely compulsive read essential for all karate-ka, compulsory for any potential CFTS Dan grade. This is a book I first read in...

It is almost impossible for someone taking up karate today to understand what karate was like in the early days, what training was like...

This book introduced by 6th Dan Sensei Mick Billman is an important book for all early students of Shotokan. Sahota Sensei's book begins...

Okinawan Karate - A History of Styles and Masters - Vol 1 - Shuri-te and Shorin-ryu by Christopher Clarke For an eye-opening view of our...

I can strongly recommend this book to any serious martial artist. I first read it about twenty years ago but have been back and re-read...

I was a blue-belt (which seems quite a while ago, but is in fact just a year) I, like a lot of my fellow Karate-Ka, was a little confused...