Karate as the Art of Killing: A Study of Its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shito-Ryu Book by Masayuki Shimabukuro & Leonard Pellman Gianni Grippo As Ed Parker used to

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Karate as the Art of Killing: A Study of Its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shito-Ryu Book by Masayuki Shimabukuro & Leonard Pellman Gianni Grippo As Ed Parker used toThis comprehensive overview of karate connects the dots between its philosophical and spiritual foundations with its original purpose: to kill an attacker swiftlyand brutally. Prior to 1900, karate d was exclusively an art of unarmed self defense. Its practice was designed for life or death situationseffectively, an art of killing. Here, authors Leonard Pellman and the late Masayuki Shimabukuro restore karate to its original intent. They move karate