The Karate of Choki Motobu DVD by Chosei Motobu Yukiyoshi Marutani Strategy and timing underlying the

Strategy and timing underlying the techniques

Run time: 150 min

See the secrets of hand and body conditioning used by the ancient Okinawa Karate masters to defeat armed Japanese samurai with their bare hands

Contents: The history of Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu and a biography of its founder

brother of Ricardo Almeida and is a successful competitor himself

The Karate of Choki Motobu DVD by Chosei Motobu Yukiyoshi Marutani Strategy and timing underlying theProbably the event most responsible for the worldwide popularity of karate is Master Choki Motobu's defeat of a western boxer in 1925. Initially ridiculed by the audience at an "all comers" prizefight in Kyoto, Japan, laughter turned to stunned silence when the middle aged and rather portly Okinawan karate man knocked his strongly built young opponent unconscious within seconds. Karate became an overnight sensation, and the mainland Japanese embraced