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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
One Boy's Flight to Mas Oyama's Japan: Uchi Deshi - Book One

One Boy's Flight to Mas Oyama's Japan: Uchi Deshi - Book One

Ligo, Nathan

Hardcover

Series: Uchi Deshi - Book, Book 1

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Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0990552217
ISBN13: 9780990552215
Publisher: Ligo Ink
Published: Sep 30 2016
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Mere teenagers at the start, Judd Reid of Australia, Nathan Ligo of the United States, and Nicolas Pettas of Denmark were the only three foreign uchi deshi (personal residential students) of Mas Oyama to receive certificates of completion from his famed, three-year Young Lions' program. After enduring overlapping periods of three years each, Judd and Nick would go on to become formidable fighters, proponents of a training style that reached its pinnacle in the 1990s and emphasized body toughening in the pursuit of tournament victory. But Nathan Ligo, the American, the most unlikely of the three in terms of temperament, reached something short of 600 days in the program and disappeared in the night, unable to face Mas Oyama at the moment of his unexplained collapse. What had happened? Why did he leave? And why did Mas Oyama, who'd had more than 100 foreign residential students over the years for short periods of time, select only Nathan two years later for an honorary certificate of completion? What was it about Nathan's raw personal struggles, and the path he chose in response - combining academic learning and writing with what would become 25 additional years of karate training experiences around the world - in which Mas Oyama saw a spark worthy of uplifting? Could he see that having felt failure once, Nathan would now never break his vow to dedicate his life both to teaching Kyokushin in America, and to the daily individual struggle against oneself that Mas Oyama taught should be at the core of Kyokushin?

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