Hi all, Welcome to the Karate Links sticky! This thread is here as a list of useful resources, both here on MAP and “outside” on other sites. If you know of any links or threads that have helped you, or that you know of and think they may help others please post them below, and they may appear in a later version of this thread MAP Links Karate Check-in Your Favorite Punch/Kick in Karate Karate belt ranking system in your academy Karate vs Kickboxing & Tae Kwon Do Sparring and Sideways Avoidance Favourite Traditional Kata Karate Stereotype, still valid? Bruce lee's view on karate Pressure Points Don't be put off Kata Traditional karate -vs- full contact karate Makiwara - Pros & Cons Off-MAP Links Shotokan kata videos/slide-shows (Grading Syllabus, then click the kata names) Karate History UK Wado-kai Shotokan Karate of America How Karate Works Goju Ryu – with pics and vids Karate and MA with Weaponry ****oryu Karate Do Cyber Academy Shotokan Karate Database Cambridge Uni Shotokan Kata Pressure Points British Karate Kyokushinkai Kyokushin Mail Again, if you have any links that have helped you or think may help others, please post them below Cheers, MAP Karate Mods
Ashihara Some useful Ashihara Karate links. The official Ashihara Karate page: http://www.ashihara.com An awesome Ashihara site with loads of information: http://users.iafrica.com/a/as/ashihara/ A link to WCK (World Contact Karate) tournament ruleset video (100Mb) http://www.mazz.dk/karate/WCK rules.mpg That's all for now
Yeah, made a lil mess there. There's a space after WCK so the vBulletin placed [/url] right after WCK not mpg My bad, fixed.
http://www.journalofhistory.com/martial_arts/martial_arts.htm That's a pretty good site for karate... it's got a lot of perspective on the arts that's pretty rare. Please do not advertise your own forum - Gaskell
Hmmmm... I don't know if I'll be accused of 'advertising' but, since I'm offering them completely free (with no possibility for personal gain): http://www.kyokushinbudokai.org/ - Click on "Downloads" for a complete Kihon book containing more than 400 pictures of Kyokushin Karate, Jiu Jitsu and Judo techniques. http://blog.kyokushinbudokai.org/ - Contains a regularly updated diary following the training and philosophies of a Full Contact Martial Artist (Kyokushin, Judo, Jiu Jitsu and Free Fight). -V-
Here you'll find Flash videos of the JKA Shotokan katas. The 26 Shotokan katas Official Site of Harada Sensei's Organisation Karate-Do Shotokai A personal site containing karate video clips KDS Karate-Shotokan-kata.com Among other things, you'll find bios of the great karate masters of the past and the present The Shotokan Resource Uechi-ryu: Articles, videos, image gallery.. Uechi-ryu Site
www.karateonline.org is a great site for kata videos from all karate style and has international competition footage of many great competitors, millon, mottram and junior lefevre to name a few well worth checking out
www.nikawakai.co.uk also follow links to Fujiban also look up 'streaming video' for uechi ryu vids Have fun
If Anyone of you has Asian Karate Fed (AKF) or World karate Fed (WKF) kata, kumite, team kumite,team kata pics or Videos please leave the link here thank you.
*Ashihara Honbu new site : http://www.ashihara-karate.com/ *Junior lefevre(shotokan world champion): http://www.jutsko.com/ *Trickz : http://www.bilang.com/system.php?cat=links&page=personal Flavours of kyokushin http://www.australiankyokushin.com/flavours.shtml Greetz, azimuth
thanks alot for all of these links....i have just recently started to read then and there very informative, thanks again
:Angel: Knockdown karate information website for kyokushin karate, daido juku etc.. highly recommended.
isshin ryu sites Don Nagle's AOKA http://www.aokainc.com/ Ed Mcgrath http://www.aokaincmcgrath.com/ http://www.nyseibukan.com/index.html tons of grate stuff http://www.msisshinryu.com/ Okinawan karate history http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/001/001/