Kyokushin Karate II – The Art of Inner and Outer Strength

VOLUME II – UNDERSTAND IT

Behind the technique, understand yourself too!

After a while the question is no longer whether we are able to perform a technique.

It is whether we understand what practice is teaching us.

The second volume links technical progress with a person’s inner development. Alongside physical strength, self-discipline, perseverance, attention, positive thinking, responsibility and self-knowledge play an ever greater part.

At this level karate is no longer simply a fighting technique.

It is a path that shapes the person.

Slowly the practitioner realises that among their most important opponents are their own fears, weaknesses, impatience and limits.

So the second volume is the secondary school of karate:
building self-control out of technical knowledge, and conscious development out of practice.

→ Four books. One path.

About the book

Most readers open a karate book to learn the secret of becoming a champion. Dr. István Adámy starts with what technique alone does not teach: perseverance, fear, accepting a master, honour, and how a dojo grows.

He then goes through the Kyokushin training system in order: dojo etiquette, warm-up, the basic techniques (kihon), breathing, stances, kata and kumite. He gives the requirements for every belt from white to black and closes with a collection of Japanese terms.