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title: "The Way of White Crane Karate"
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# The Way of White Crane Karate

**Brand:** george alexander
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The Way of White Crane Karate

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by D***T on Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2015*

Excellent history of White Crane's influence on Karate.

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Huge, Misguiding, mostly pure Goju Ryu Katas from other sources, No bunkai, No Hakutsuru forms - very shotokan like attitude
  

*by C***. on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016*

Well, the book is impressive by size, but I feel that is just filled with some stuff in order to get a bulky book !So , the basics, are taken from a basic shotokan karate of the 80's, it is not the author's picture doing the specifics of Hakutsuru Kenpo Karate and I wonder why...  Then You have some kata, mostly of Goju Ryu, and again pictures are taken from various other books. Habersetzer is just the first example in hand.  So, why do you give me Sanchin , mentioning it is Higaonna version, when your book is called Way of White Crane and you display proudly, so many pictures with You in China and Okinawa doping white crane and having a Menkyokaiden in Hakutsuru Kenpo .. (BTW, i am not sure that MenkyoKaiden is a tradition in Okinawa and I am not sure how many okinawans also posses the same rank / title / certification, because Menkyokaiden is a japanese tradition, not Okinawan / Ryukyu, etc )  So, most of the katas have big & clear drawing of their pure Goju Ryu version, taken from other sources with no bunkai and not even kata history or links between this katas and the Hakutsuru Kenpo. Tensho kata with the hand movements are so poorly scanned from other sources that you cannot understand the order of movements and images are blurry ( low resolution original image, scanned and resized too big)  It really looks like a big mix of things from various sources put together with many many pictures of the author trying to prove his legitimacy...  Then you have a poor chapter on Bubishi / Kyusho with very general informations and huge ilustrations of the meridians.  The truly input of mr Alexander comes when he explains some kumite theory of the style, and some conditioning - kote kitai...but with no indepth explanation of white crane fundamentals like " floating" "spitting", etc . Just a very basic and correct karate of the '80 but, sorry, no real White Crane in this book.  Huge book indeed with insubstantial informations and most of them surely not related to Hakutsuru Kenpo system.  Despite the ultra exagerated claim " This is the first book dedicated solely to Okinawan White Crane Karate. This book will teach you the complete Hakutsuru Kenpo Karate system." - THERE IS NO HAKUTSURU KATA in this book , i mean the Hakutsuru katas that mr Alexander explains in his dvd's with the same subject, and which are included in his curriculum as well in his menkyokaiden :) Mostly is pure Goju Ryu and I am a goju ryu practitioner , I have too many books on the subject ...japanese and occidentals...  Sorry, misguiding and a waste of money !

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    This book is best accompanied by the Hakutsuru White Crane DVD series
  

*by B***0 on Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2018*

Great historical background of how White Crane was brought from China to Okinawa.  I appreciate the explanation of how Hakutsuru Kenpo influenced many styles of Okinawan Karate (Shorin Ryu, Goju Ryu, etc) and captures some popular Kata in an earlier less “stylized” form.I attended a seminar hosted by an instructor from a different White Crane system who explained that many Hakutsuru dojo taught different kata and/or different versions of kata unique to their dojo.  It was the same way in China.  There were really only three Kata required to make a Hakutsuru “White Crane” system.  The rest was up to each dojo.When I originally met George Alexander Hanshi on a trip to Okinawa some years ago he explained that since many of his students are familiar with the Shuri Te influence of White Crane (since he holds a 10th Dan in Matsumura Shorin Ryu from Okinawa) he chose to focus his Hakutsuru Kenpo system on the “Naha Te” influence to give them a broader exposure to the White Crane influence.  Fujian White Crane routinely uses“San Chian” just like Naha Te uses Sanchin.Since most people see Dr. Alexander as a “Shorin Ryu guy” they don’t realize that he spent some years in the 70’s training under one of Morio Higaonna’s top students at that time (Ken Ogawa).  This is why he credits Morio Higaonna’s version of several Kata in his syllabus.  Morio Higaonna had also received a Menkyo Kaiden for Goju Ryu so it clearly does happen in some Okinawan styles of Karate.  That year I saw George Alexander warmly received by Higaonna Sensei, Hokama Sensei and Toyama Sensei into their Dojos and discussed this book.  That is a large part of the reason I decided to purchase it.There are a limited number of instructors in the world that have put in the years, traveled, trained with Masters and documented in an academic manner the the techniques and history of martial arts.  I am grateful for all of them.  If you ever have the opportunity to meet and train with George Alexander I recommend it!

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