Jack Sabat

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In twelve action-packed episodes, Jack Sabat recounts the great fights and lessons learned in nearly thirty years of practicing and teaching karate. Zen and the Art of Street Fighting takes us from training and battling with warriors from Japan and Hong Kong to the Philippines and New South Wales, to his own dojo in Southern California, where he practices with students and teachers from around the world.

I knew I could become a leader of men, if I didn't die first. But then, that was the key. that was the secret I longed to find. There it was in front of me. I knew what the samurai sought: 'To live is to die, to encourage death and accept it openly as life itself.'

No fear of death; no fear of failure. I smiled to myself and reentered the dojo for clean-up. Budo had shown me somethng I couldn't buy in any way. For one special, brief moment in time, once again I found a shimmer of satori.-Jack Sabat

'Good luck, Jack-san! And all I can say is I'm glad I never felt the wrath of your fists and feet!'-Kathy Glass

'Whilst most books on the martial arts concentrate purely upon the physical aspect, Zen and the Art of Street Fightning delves on the equally important spiritual side. Sensei Jack Sabat has raised many glowing images before our eyes which illlustrate its intent: 'unassailable strength through understanding ryomei or, the continuous process of self-evaluation.' From all the different mental and physical battles Sensei Sabat experienced, the martial art student is provided practical wisdom as well as a book that can motivate. This is truly a guide for myself and my students as well as for the general reader interested in bushido, the way of the samurai.'-Thomas N. Davies, San-Dan (third degree black belt), Koei Kan Karate-do

Jack Sabat began studying marital arts while serving a tour of duty in Viet Nam in 1967. He is founder and director of Koei-Kan Karate-do in Santa Barbara, California.

Contents

Foreword
Chapter 1. The Steel Dojo
Chapter 2. Battle beneath the Thunder
Chapter 3. Yokusuka Shototkan
Chapter 4. Ring of Strategy
Chapter 5. Makiwara: the Straw Sheath conflict
Chpater 6. Gasping for Air! The Battle in the Furnace
Chapter 7. Facing the Mountain: the Ordeal of Sanchin Kata
Chapter 9. Real Kung fu, Please
Chapter 10. West Side Blow-Out
Chapter 11. The Thousand Pounds Victory
Chapter 12. The New South Wales Incident… (altro)