The most comprehensive book ever written on Shotokan Karate. Within its 750 pages lies an absolute wealth of information for the beginner and advanced student alike. It answers in graphic detail and refreshing candidness, the numerous questions posed by generations of students of Karate-do. Shihan van Weenen has trained with the World's best over the past 50 years and in this book, he willingly shares his countless experiences and knowledge with the reader.

Grandmaster Les Kiersnowski was appointed as the head coach of the Arnis Division for the US National Karate Team, They were victorious in the 2006 and 2007 World Cup. Team Sandokan were National Champions in 2008 and 2009. Grandmaster Les was inducted into NAFMA Black Belt Hall of Fame in 2006, World Karate Union Hall of Fame and ICKO Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2009, he was inducted into the Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Honors for Outstanding Contribution to Martial Arts and in January 2010, where he also earned a Lifetime Achievement Award. USA Hall of Fame as Martial Art Founder of the Year, March 2013, he received Master of the Year award for Sandokan at the Atlantic City Kung Fu and Karate Expo. In June, 2013 he was awarded the Golden Lifetime Achievement award for over forty years in the martial arts by the World Karate Union. In July, 2010 and was recognized by Colonel Lisa McManus, Grandmaster and Founder of Military Arnis. In 2011 Grandmaster Les Kiersnowski was awarded as Martial Arts Founder of the Year for Sandokan by the United Federation of Martial Artists. The Sandokan system is based on physics, principals of martial science and the science of anatomy. Achieving this martial arts system has encompassed many years of research and practical development. It is a system based on the perfecting of body positioning for maximum output of energy.

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