LEARNING KARATE FROM BOOKS AND THE INTERNET
Learning karate online is a good idea. However, athletes can also pursue traditional self-study and learn from books. The "Black Karate Book Series" by Fiore Tartaglia , author and 6th Dan in Shotokan Karate, is particularly suitable for this.
We martial artists at SV Lieth use his works when detailed questions about katas are clarified in training and then established as a standard.
What's special about these books is that—unlike standard texts—they not only depict the correct END position and posture, but also provide three intermediate illustrations that clearly show the path to get there. This way, every athlete can figure out for themselves: What is my other hand actually doing while I'm swinging my front arm?
Of course, neither this nor any other book replaces a real coach, but the book itself does not make such demands on itself; it is only an aid to understanding and learning this beautiful sport.
If something is unclear during training, we look in the book or on the Internet.
Frank Trieder, Head of Karate, with kind permission of the excerpt from
Fiore Tartaglia, author and owner of Spectra-Verlag
