Books with title Karate Kick

This ten-book series explores the martial arts, weaving together history, culture, geography, and politics to give readers a balanced perspective of the world's fighting systems. Author Jim Ollhoff, Ph.D., holds a second-degree black belt in Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate, as well as intermediate belts in Korean Tae Kwon Do and Chinese Kung Fu. Series editor John Hamilton is a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, with additional experience in Kung Fu and self-defense.This volume of the series explores karate, weaving together history, culture, geography and politics.

Gain mindfulness, focus, and inner strength while learning karate moves with a goat kid! A goat kid loves to do karate! And he is sure to inspire young kids to try karate as well. Follow Goat as he goes through the major stances and karate moves, teaching readers to channel focus and strength through each pose. Karate Kid's simple, measured, and meditative text is complemented by playful yet instructive illustrations by Mark Chambers to teach youngsters how to get involved in karate--and to have fun while doing so, too.

A martial arts style with a name that means "empty hands," karate is popular around the world as a way of strengthening both the body and the mind. Karate teaches its students important values, such as self-discipline and determination. This book shows young readers the advantages of dedicating oneself to a martial art. It also shows how learning karate can be great fun. Readers will explore katas, grappling, and other moves, as well as the martial art's rich history and culture.

Lots of today's primary and elementary schoolchildren are getting a kick out of martial arts! Now kids can go to the library to get the valuable background information they may not get at the studio. This fact-filled, high-interest series will help aspiring black belts put the martial arts in their historical and cultural contexts. Your students are sure to enjoy action photos of their contemporaries practicing actual moves and techniques.