Shotokan Karate Kanazawa Mastering Karate 9 DVD Box Set Review

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(More customer reviews)Whatever your style of karate, a set of DVDs from Master Kanazawa is a 'must have' item! However, the world-class instruction is poorly let down by the production quality.
The disks are cheaply burned DVD-Rs rather than pressed from a factiory produced glass master. This meant that some portions of my set were unviewable (for me), or jumped and stuttered at best. The sound quality is poor and Kancho's speech is continually 'clipping'.
I feel that Rising Sun Productions has let down Master Kanazawa and his tream badly, making it difficult for the dedicated student to get the maximum from the content provided, which is why I knocked two stars off an otherwise 5-star set.
I'm also suspicious of the positive reviews from 'Colin of Canada' for all the Rising Sun Productions DVDs. He couldn't possibly work for .. no . couldn't be could it?

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TE WAZA- Hand Techniques including strikes, blocks, and much more.ASHI WAZA Foot techniques including kicks, stances, hips and shifting.KIHON IDO - Combinations of hands and feet together plus shifting and much more.KYU KATA - Below Black Belt katas including the Heians, Tekki s plus others.DAN KATA Black Belt kata. Each kata includes the form being done first slow and then fast along with the bunkai (explanation) of each move by Kancho.NI JU HACHI HO White Crane form done in slow speed and then full speed by Kancho Kanazawa including many explanations of the moves.KUMITE In this DVD you will see why many consider the Shotokan practioners to be the best fighters in traditional Japanese karate as two SKIF champions go full out demonstrating ippon kumite sanbon kumite, gohon kumite and jiyu kumite. Manabu Murakami and Nobuaki Kanazawa will show you what their teacher taught them.INTERVIEW WITH KANCHO This is a tell all interview that we have all been waiting for. Have you ever wondered how and why the JKA did what they did? Ever wonder why Kancho Kanazawa left the JKA or England. Its all here plus he talks in depth about what he learnt from Funakoshi, Nakayama, Okazaki, Nishiyama and the rest. Plus just so much more it is amazing. The interview was conducted by acclaimed author, writer, interviewer Don Warrener. Don t miss this it is excruciatingly interesting as the Master is put on the hot seat.A MASTER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Hirokazu Kanazawa is not above having a laugh, even if it is at his own expense. You will see all the bloopers, errors and mix ups plus when he met Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley (look a likes) on the famous Hollywood Boulevard. You will see people from all over the world giving testimonials and accreditation to the one they call Kancho. Plus many surprises as you are taken behind the scenes of the making of Mastering Karate and more.

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