Recommended Media

For karate students, please download the latest edition of the Student Handbook for reference in your practice.  Note that this manual is for the karate program only.  For jo and sword manuals, contact me directly.

• Blackbird Karate Student Handbook

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I recommend the following resources if you'd like further reading about martial arts history and practice.  They will give a fine budo overview from the perspective of various exceptional budoka.

• Katsu Jin Ken: Living Karate, by Masayuki Shimabukuro

• Samurai Swordsmanship, by Masayuki Shimabukuro and Carl Long

• The Unfettered Mind, by Takuan Soho

• Meditations on Violence and Scaling Force by Rory Miller

• Living the Martial Way, by Forrest E. Morgan

• The Art of Hojo Undo, by Michael Clarke

• Okinawan Karate, by Mark Bishop

• Hidden Hands, Martial Structure, and Martial Mechanics, by Phillip Starr

• Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy, by Frank H. Netter