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Tables of Contents for Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts
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Part 1: RYUKYU KOBUDO TAIKAN: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT RYUKYUAN MARTIAL ARTS
1
102
Taira Shinken
Translator's Foreword
1
1
Preface
2
1
Acknowledgements
3
1
About the Author
4
1
The Board of Directors for the Ryukyu Kobudo Hozon Shinkokai
5
2
Supporting Members
7
1
Introduction
8
1
An Outline of Ryukyu Kobudo
8
3
Items of Kobudo
11
1
Bo-jutsu Fundamentals
12
18
How to Make a Bo
12
1
How to Hold the Bo
13
1
The Bo-jutsu Makiwara
14
4
The Bo-jutsu of Shushi (Dai)
18
12
The Sai-jutsu of Hamahiga
30
21
The Tuifa-jutsu of Hamahiga
51
24
The Bo-jutsu of Sueyoshi
75
19
The Basic Kata of Nunchaku-jutsu
94
6
Editor's Postscript
100
1
Translator's Afterthoughts
101
2
Part 2: TAIRA SHINKEN: THE FATHER OF MODERN KOBUDU
103
12
Patrick McCarthy
Introduction
103
2
Taira the Innovator
105
1
Jigen no Sai-jutsu
106
1
The Ryukyu Kobudo Hozon Shinkokai
107
3
A Capsule History of Taira's Kata Syllabus
110
1
The Lineage of Taira Shinken
111
1
Akamine Eisuke
111
4
Translator's Notes
115