Download or read book Adam's Karate Dictionary: A Professional Glossary of Shotokan Terms written by Adam Dobrzynski and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karate jargon is integral to everyday practice. Without solid understanding of the Karate vocabulary, it is easy to fall into technical and conceptual errors. The purpose of this Shotokan dictionary is to bring the reader closer to the Karate terminology we so often use, but so rarely explore. This book can be described as a Japanese-English Shotokan dictionary, as well as a heavy-duty professional glossary of Karate terms related to Funakoshi styles. It can be defined as a Shotokan encyclopedia, which fo-cuses on the linguistic aspects of Karate phrases. Through the language, we dive into Karate itself. Although planned for senior Karate instructors, absolute beginners may also benefit from this Karate wordlist.As for its content, the main goal - naturally - is to translate from "Karate lan-guage" to English. The book offers various English definitions of the Japanese tech-nical terms, making it a powerful Japanese-English dictionary of the terms used in Karate. Sometimes the Karate meaning does not overlap with the general meaning of a word. If the common-general Japanese translation of a Karate term may be rele-vant, we bring it as well.It was Seneca who said: "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable". If we were to achieve a high standard of execution, we cannot afford not to understand - literally - the Karate commands. A clear understanding of the Karate terms is indispensable. Breaking down Karate expressions to their build-ing blocks, does seem to achieve a deeper understanding of them. This Karate glos-sary puts a special emphasis on the important Kanji, including thorough Kanji-analysis and relevant cross-references. Deep meanings of important Shotokan ex-pressions are sought, and their links to other Karate words are drawn. In our opinion, the references are this book's greatest virtue, and we urge our dear readers to be dili-gent and to follow them - especially when it comes to the Kanji that compose the value. A large part of this Shotokan glossary is devoted to pronunciation issues. This Karate wordbook presents different Kanji readings, which may be very important in the case of several