Of the many aspects of Karate, this complete instruction book emphasizes the purely amateur nature of the sport. The author, a teacher of Karate, in giving pointers for self-instruction and for other teachers to use, stresses the basic principles of the sport and presents each technique in turn, using photographs and diagrams for supplemental information. He feels that when a student has taken Karate instruction, he soon sees positive effects, not only in his physique (in Karate, the parts of the body are trained to become natural weapons of defence) but in his intellectual abilities as well. Above and beyond this, the book presents a little of the historical developments of all Japanese fighting arts-so that the true meaning of Karate is revealed.