Redemption

A Street Fighter's Path to Peace

von

Clarke, Michael

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

CHF24.50

Beschreibung

Michael Clarke was a street fighter, an angry, vicious kid. He grew up in the late sixties and early seventies in Manchester, England, and lived in a rough neighborhood where, he writes, "Prostitutes worked the pavement opposite my home, illegal bookmakers took bets in back alley cellars, and street brawls were commonplace." Then he entered a karate dojo and his life changed forever.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-59439-378-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Ingram Publishers Services

YMAA Publication Center

ErscheinungslandUSA

Erscheinungsdatum16.06.2016

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 228 mm, Dicke 16 mm

Gewicht391 g

Illustrationen32 black & white halftones

Artikel-Nr.6825532

KatalogBuchzentrum

Datenquelle-Nr.18977907

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Autor

Clarke, Michael

By the age of 17, Michael Clarke, Kyoshi 8th dan was behind bars, a veteran street fighter serving a two-year sentence for occasioning grievous bodily harm.Turning 18 behind the walls of one of England's most notorious prisons 'Strangeways', was a wake up call that began his climb off the bottom.

Released back into society on parole in December 1973, he began training in karate in January 1974.

After ten years of training in the Japanese system of Tani-ha Shito-ryu, he travelled to Okinawa for the first time in 1984, in search of the more traditional training methods. There he was accepted into the dojo of the famed Morio Higaonna sensei. In 1992 he entered the Jundokan dojo of Eiichi Miyazato sensei, the dojo where Higaonna sensei himself had learnt karate, and became a student of the man who had received his instruction directly from the founder of goju-ryu: Chojun Miyagi. Six weeks before he passed away, in 1999, Miyazato sensei promoted Michael to 6th dan.