Recommended Media

For karate students, please download the latest edition of the Student Handbook for reference in your practice.

• 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

• 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