Interesting Links
This is the home page for the organization. It has a dojo directory
organized by state, historical information, and news groups for SKA members.
This link has video of individuals performing Shotokan kata
including Funakoshi.
This is the home page for Kansas City Shotokan. The provides
background on Shotokan, as well as Dojo location, and class schedule.
We recommend taking a peek at their Books and Tapes page. Their tape
description pages include excerpts from the videos including one of Mr.
Ohshima doing Hangetsu at the 1976 SKA 20th anniversary. Mike Lyons
has also placed some
additional video files containing torite exercises, Mr. Funakoshi
doing Tekki Kata and more in the SKA section of Yahoo Groups.
This page has some great articles by Mr. Ohshima, Tom Muzila, Genshin
Hironishi, and Shigeru Egami.
This site has some great Shotokan resources, and information. It came
highly recommended from two of our members.
The USFKC has the Shotokan Katas available as MPEG videos that you can view in
your Windows Media Player.
This site has book reviews for the books listed in our recommended reading
list, as well as links to various martial arts sites.
The site is the home site of Patrick McCarthy. He is the author of
several books about Okinawan Karate-do. This site contains history about
Okinawa Karate. Patrick lists a new translation of a collection of early
writings on Karate-do, including articles by Gichin Funakoshi. He also
claims to have translated the sections of the Kyohan that Mr. Ohshima left in
Kanji.
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