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Post by D.Ram on Apr 7, 2014 10:01:37 GMT
I was digging through some old book cartons from the attic, and stumbled upon a book I bought 2 decades ago at an old-book outlet - it's called "Bruce Tegner's Complete Book of Karate"! I've never heard of Bruce, and by just flipping through the photographs in the book, I found the style of karate "weird" to say the least! The partners are way too close to do any effective technique-demonstration, the katas are called "forms" and have the demonstrator standing very stiffly in what look like quite-ineffective stances, etc.
Anybody heard of the Karateka, or the book?
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Post by Allan Shepherd on Apr 7, 2014 10:47:22 GMT
Hi Deepak
I also have this Corgi book which was first published in the UK around 1968. Bruce Tegner was an American Martial Artist who parents (both Yudansha in Judo) involved him from the age of 2.
I also have one of his earlier Mayflower-Dell books entitled "Karate" which is only 96 pages long and published in 1964.
Best Regards Allan
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Post by D.Ram on Apr 8, 2014 4:37:42 GMT
Oss Allan...and? What's your opinion of the Corgi book? Having recently devoured Nakayama's and Kanazawa's books, I found this very difficult to digest in terms of written content and illustrations! ______________ The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.
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Post by Allan Shepherd on Apr 8, 2014 8:56:17 GMT
Hi Deepak
Same thoughts as you!!
Best Regards Allan
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Post by neil on Apr 8, 2014 10:26:27 GMT
I could be wrong but i beleive that he was/is a student of sensei Kubota ( inventor of the kubotan key chain weapon thingy ). I remember reading an interview in FAI with sensei Kubota in the 80's. He seems to be an "old style" pre JKA Karateka. Kubota was in the movie " the mechanic" with Charles Bronson.
Cheers Neil
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Post by nathanso on Apr 8, 2014 19:29:07 GMT
It's hard not to consider Bruce Tegner to be a charlatan. When I started training in the 60's, he was one of the few people to have written martial arts books. And boy did he pop out books on everything- karate, self-defense, judo, jujitsu, kung fu, savate, etc. I had a two of his early books back then- one on karate and one on SD. I remembr them as being not worth packing and moving- a pretty damning statement since I almost never throw out books.
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Post by Allan Shepherd on Apr 8, 2014 21:02:19 GMT
Check out Ebay UK and see the prices some of his books are being asked for.
Best Regards Allan
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Post by kensei on Apr 9, 2014 12:53:16 GMT
I have or had two of his books. they were "entertaining" but I was getting them at a time when I had already purchased the whole Best Karate series so it was at a second hand store for a buck each....he was interesting.
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