Okinawan Weaponry - Hidden Methods, Ancient Myths of Kobudo & Te, is the long-awaited sequel to the author's best selling title "Okinawan Karate - Teachers, Styles & Secret Techniques" This work meticulously details the history, development and training principles of some fifty hand-held weapons utilised within Okinawan Te & Kobudo practice and contains over 400 photographs and illustrations from the author's personal collection and historical sources. Discovery the highly lucrative and secret trade of firearms controlled throughout the South Pacific by Okinawa; a gunpowder plot that blows away the previous perceptions and for the first time reveals why Okinawa Has player such a fated role in world conflicts. Mark Bishop is considered the leading expert on Okinawan martial arts. He continues to travel, write, reasearch and teach extensively on various areas of these, especially Te, its related bodywork (shiatsu) and zen.
- ISBN10 095598761X
- ISBN13 9780955987618
- Publish Date 4 March 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Way Publications
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 308
- Language English