Contents of Way of The Warrior
Volume One.
Essays on The Martial Arts.
Some Reflections On Ch'i And The Martial Arts
Three Stages of Training: Shu, Ha & Ri
Shugyo
Dojo Etiquette
Sanchin: The Essential Kata of Naha-Te
The Place of Competitions
Oriental And Western Fighting Arts
The Sensei
The Dojo Kun
The Mind and The Martial Arts: Ji, Ri & Myo
Gichin Funakoshi's Twenty Precepts
Bun & Bu: The Arts of Peace and War
Giri
Zanshin
Bodhidharma and The Shaolin Temple
About the Author
Harry Cook has over
thirty years experience training in the martial arts. He has a 3rd dan in
Shotokan with the Karate Union of Great Britain, is a 2nd dan in Goju Ryu with
sensei Morio Higaonna and a 4th dan with the Butokukai of Great Britain.
He
has a degree in Chinese and spent several years in Japan training in the
martial arts. He has also trained in various other martial arts including
Ryukyu Kobujutsu with sensei Julian Mead and Capoeira with Mestre Gato (F.C.C.
Albuquerque) of Group Senzala. He has been at the forefront of martial arts
writing for over twenty years, having written extensively for Terry O'Neill's
Fighting Arts International magazine, Traditional Karate, Shotokan Magazine,
Dragon Times, Irish Fighter etc.
"Author
Harry Cook is at the very top of his field. Over three decades of serious
training in Shotokan and Goju Ryu, a degree in Chinese from Durham University,
and a highly developed gift for exhaustive research bring to his work a quality
that is difficult to surpass. Thorough and incredibly accurate, he has the rare
ability of bringing to life the characters he unearths for us from karate's
history and make us hear their words, think their thoughts and even dream their
dreams. At research he is a scientist - at writing a poet. Balanced and fair, his
work is passionate and at times emotional. Reading an article by Harry Cook is
a mental work out you will come back to over and over, finding at each visit,
something new to marvel over."
Dragon Times Volume 13
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