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Mightier Than the Sword - A Kyokushin Karate Coming of Age Story (Paperback)
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Mightier Than the Sword - A Kyokushin Karate Coming of Age Story (Paperback)
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A Kyokushin Karate Coming of Age Story Just another unassuming
undergrad? Yes, but this one carries a terrible secret ...one
that's driven him through seven years of hellish karate training
and study so that he might learn to bear its weight. Seven years
have already taken Nathan Ligo to Japan, where he spent 600 days in
the most rigorous, monastic karate program in the world, training
under the watchful daily supervision of Masutatsu Oyama, Japan's
most famous living karateka. But it's not until he suffers a
crushing defeat in Japan, and returns home empty-handed, that he
comes to understand that the combination of three treasured sources
of his ongoing education just might hold the key to unlocking an
awesome truth. The samurai-like do-or-die education he acquired
from his karate teachers, the progressive liberal arts education he
acquires at North Carolina's Davidson College, and the enlightened,
open-eyed, and all-loving character education he received in the
first decade of his life from his father: three sometimes violently
warring components combine to show Nathan that he just might use
the dark secret that he carries to enact a great good for the
children of the future ...that is, IF he's willing to make the
necessary sacrifice. "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to
win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to
take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither
victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt The Only American Student
of the Legend Mas Oyama> At the time of Masutatsu Oyama's death
in 1994, he was regarded by many as the world's greatest living
karateka. His Kyokushin Karate had spread to 133 countries around
the world and was reputed to have touched as many as twelve million
students. Forty years earlier, the Korean-born "Mas" Oyama had,
himself, become a virtual revolution in the world of Japanese
karate, in that it was he who introduced stone- and therefore
bone-breaking power to the highly stylized traditional forms of
karate that had come to exist in Japan. Kyokushin Karate became
known for its no-nonsense practicality, its fearsome physical
power, and a theretofore unseen degree of spiritual strength
conjured through a revival of Japan's do-or-die samurai
personality. Once Kyokushin exploded to such incredible
proportions, Mas Oyama took on only a very few students that were
his own, that he himself guided, day by day, in an attempt to
ensure that his teaching would endure. Uchi deshi literally means
"live-in disciple;" it is the opposite of the kayoi deshi or
"commuting student," who merely visits the dojo regularly for
training. Mas Oyama's uchi deshi program was a one-thousand-day
monastic karate program for his small group of personal students
who lived in the Young Lions' Dormitory, a small building attached
to his world headquarters dojo in Tokyo. In 1993, Nathan Ligo
become the only American to hold a graduation certificate from this
program, given to him by Mas Oyama in recognition of the 600 days
he lived in the Young Lions' dormitory.
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