First let it be make clear that this series makes no ridiculious claims. It does not assure you that you can become a karate expert in a matter of weeks, nor does it try to convince you that you can learn to break boards in a few easy lessons.

This is the fourth book in the Practical Karate series. Like its precedecessors, it is a categorized collection of self-defense situations and recommended karate responses. All methods desscribed are workable responses based on meeting single and mulitiple armed assailants. If you haave studied and praciticed teh necesary fudamentasl found in Book 1, the situations in this vlume, like those in Books 2 and 3, wil lbe easy to learn.

Mastery of the responses in this text will not make the reader invincible in personal encounters, but it wil certainly better prepare him should defense of his life or that of others become necessary. But onlky pracitice will bring results.

Masatoshi Nakayama, Chief Instructor of the Japanese Karate Association, and Donn F. Draeger , a well-known instructor of combative arts, have authored this book to provide a system of self-defense for the busy individual.

'The illustrations are clear and the instructions are simple, and a reasonably agil man will not find it difficult to master these practical techniques....It rally is a aserious book, and credit must be given to them for taking the time to write it....Mr. Nakayama and Mr. Draerger have written a useful guide and for a man intersted in self-defense it is one book I will recommend.'-The Mainichi Shimbun

'Masatoshi Nakayama, chief instructor of the Japan Karate Assocaition, and Donn F. Draeger, a well-known instructor of combative arts, have authored this book to provide a system of self-defense for the busy individual....All methods described are workable responses bsased on meeting single and multiple armed assailants.'-The Malay Mail

'The authors warn against false confidence in one's ability to defend himself and say the mastery of the lessons taught in the book wil not make the reader invincible but certainly wil better prepare him to defend his own life or that of others when necessary.'-The Asahi Evening News

'...It shows what a wonderful deterrent karate can be...long practice is required. ...The book is a good buy for karate students.'-Shipping and Trade News

Nakayama: We select here several techniques you will be able to master with comparative ease.
Draeger: The few minutes a day you must spend in practice will never be wasted.
-quotes by the authors from Practical Karate: Fundamentals

Contents

Authors' foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Club and stick attacks
Overhead club striking; Diagonal club striking; bakchand club striking; Haymaker stick swing; Overhead stick striking; Low swing stick striking; backhand stick swing; Stick raking attack ; Two-handed diagonal stick strikign; Stick pushing attack; Close stick struggle
Chapter 2: Blade and sharp-edge attacks
Midsection knife thrust; Diagonal downward knife slash; Overhead knife stabbing attack; Switching hands knife attack; Lapel seizure and knife stab attack; Uppercut knife slash attack; Knife face thrust attack; Broken bottle free threat to midsection; Broken bottle free threat to face; Broken bottle free threat to face (alternate); Lapel seaizure and broken bottle face slash
Chapter 3: Multiple armed assailants
Front and rear stick attack; Front and rear garrotte attack