This book is dedicated to you young people who have been bull-ied and have felt trapped between your desire for revenge and your desire to work things out peacefully. This book is also dedicated to you parents, teachers and counselors who want to help young people understand their vioknt feelings and cope with them in healthy, humane ways.
To the Reader:
I've written Facing the Double-Edged Sword to explore ideas, feelings, and aspects of training which are common to all Martial Atrs styles. My background is mainly in Japanese Karate, and I have used certain Japanese worlds such as kiai, hara, hakama, andgi-certainly not out of disrespect for other styles, but simply because they are the terms I am used to. You will see that this book has universal significance and is meaningful to all Martial Artists, whatever their style.
FACING THE
DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
The Art of Karate
for Young People
by Dr. Terrence Webster-Doyle
Atrium Society
Paonia, Colorado,
USA
Printed by Atrium Society
Paonia, Colorado
Copyright© 1988 by Terrence Webster-Doyle
First edition, 1988
First Weatherhill edition, 1998
Second Edition, 2022
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the publisher, except for brief excerpts for review, or by educators for classroom use.
Illustrations: Rod Cameron
Cover Design: Robert Howard
Design and Production: John Shoolery
Project Director: Game Plan, Inc.
Creative Consultant: Jean Webster-Doyle
Special thanks to Taki Name Do instructors:
Jeff Greene, Steve Snedden, Stan James, and
Jean Webster Doyle
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Webster-Doyle, Terrence, 1940-Facing the double-edged sword: the art of karate for young people /
by Terrence Webster-Doyle [illustrations, Rod Cameron]
p. cm. - (Martial arts for peace series)
SUMMARY: An introduction to karate and other martial. arts, with an emphasis on peaceful ways to deal with conflict. Audience: For grades 4-9.
ISBN: 9-781387-658817 (paperback)
1. Karate - Juvenile literature. 2. Martial arts - Juvenile literature I. Cameron, Rod. IL Title. III. Series
GV 1114.3 796.8153
QB191-147
Printed in U.S.A.
Table of Contents
There's a Fight Going On. ............................................................ 1
Chapter 1: How Karate Began ···································· 8
Chapter 2: A Great Master of Karate ................................. 18
Chapter 3: Take Nami Do and Mukuso .............................. 22
Chapter 4: Mind Like Moon - Mind Like Water ........ 31
Chapter 5: Focus and Kiai ...................................................... 37
Chapter 6: Power ....................................................................... 42
Chapter 7: Sen-No-Sen: Awareness ................................... 49
