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Iain Abernethy
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Total Karate: Conversations with Modern Masters

Proud to be one of the interviewees in this book!

Paperback

USA: https://www.amazon.com/TOTAL-KARATE-CONVERSATIONS-MODERN-MASTERS/dp/1697959776/

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TOTAL-KARATE-CONVERSATIONS-MODERN-MASTERS/dp/1697959776/

Germany: https://www.amazon.de/TOTAL-KARATE-CONVERSATIONS-MODERN-MASTERS/dp/1697959776/

Kindle

USA: https://www.amazon.com/TOTAL-KARATE-CONVERSATIONS-MODERN-MASTERS-ebook/dp/B07YRL39JS/

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TOTAL-KARATE-CONVERSATIONS-MODERN-MASTERS-ebook/dp/B07YRL39JS/

Germany: https://www.amazon.de/TOTAL-KARATE-CONVERSATIONS-MODERN-MASTERS-ebook/dp/B07YRL39JS/

BLURB: From the author of Martial Arts and Self-Defence for Everyone: A Complete Beginner’s Guide, comes this landmark addition to every karate student’s book collection. Covering every aspect of karate training and packed with details about the vast range of karate styles from around the world, from the mainstream arts to lesser known regional systems, this is the perfect companion to karate training at all levels. Containing indispensable training advice, wisdom, insights, fascinating personal histories and anecdotes, all captured in exclusive in-depth interviews with more than forty of the world’s most respected modern masters, including Jesse Enkamp, Iain Abernethy, Karin Prinsloo, Takayuki Kubota, and Scott Langley, Total Karate: Conversations with the Modern Masters is a must-read for all karate enthusiasts, from complete beginners to life-long students!

dojodave
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Got the e-book yesterday, for me was a superb read all round. Certainly lives up to its title, it has something for everybody and covers a very broad range of styles / substyles, I hadnt even heard of some of them before so it was great to see lesser known styles getting some coverage and it has some cracking interviews, Iain's included. For a long book it wasnt costly either for the ebook or the paperback which is another plus and it didnt even feel long reading it. Well impressed overall, very enjoyable read and would definitely recommend it

RyanK
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Took a punt on this book and really glad I did. Majority of katate books I've read were almost always either instructional or historical types usually focusing on one of the main four or five styles we're all familiar with. The author did a very good job of shining the spot light on Karate beyond the well known styles and that's what made it so refreshing. I came away with a deeper appreciation of the variety of styles that are out there. It was great reading the back stories of the masters interviewed in the book and hearing their views and nuggets of advice and how they caught the Karate bug. Very enjoyable book and very inspiring too, well worth checking out

MarkH
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Finished reading this last week and found it very enjoyable. And that's coming from someone who is sceptical of martial art books because I find most just rehashes of other titles. This one is different in that it covers so many different styles and the interviews are full of insightfull advice and amusing anecdotes, there's a really good one involving Bruce Lee and Ed Parker I won't spoil but I just thought hilarious. You could be brand new student or training all of your life and still enjoy the book because it looks at karate from every angle and every level of training. Interesting to see how different the views are among the interviewees about topics like Kata, and Ki and even about Karate being in the Olympic Games among lots of other topics. A great read in my opinion

Gary
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I'm genuinely grateful to the members who posted these reviews for all their postive reviews and kind words about the book. It's nice to see the book get such a warm reception and I really appreciate the support it has gotten from readers. I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge and thank Iain, not only for very kindly contributing to the book but also for all his efforts to spread the word about it. 

Many thanks & best wishes guys,

Gary Quinn

Iain Abernethy
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Hi Gary,

Gary wrote:
I'm genuinely grateful to the members who posted these reviews for all their positive reviews and kind words about the book. It's nice to see the book get such a warm reception and I really appreciate the support it has gotten from readers.

There’s a great group of individuals that contribute here. Anything that makes a positive contribution to the karate community is always warmly received and your book certainly does that. It’s clear a lot of effort went into it, so thank you for taking the time to produce the book.

Gary wrote:
I'd also like to take this opportunity to publicly acknowledge and thank Iain, not only for very kindly contributing to the book but also for all his efforts to spread the word about it.

You were very patient with me :-) It’s an honour to be included in the book and I welcome that opportunity.

All the best,

Iain

Gary
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Thanks Iain, much appreciated, I'm genuinely honoured that you took part. 

Cheers,

Gary