Professor Dan Anderson introduction - from karate jock to martial artist

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When I discovered Dan’s book American freestyle years ago, it tied up one of those “loose ends“ that he talked about. I always knew there was a reason a definable methodology why and how certain people excelled at sparring but nobody could explain it other than to say “he’s just good.“ Dan’s book was eye-opening comprehensive and gave me the necessary “how to‘ S“ of sparringAnd although I never became a regional or national champion I was a respected dojo fighter competing against other dojos am I own classmates. Dan’s Footework concepts were revolutionary and much better explained in my opinion than even Jo Louis did. I understand what he meant about becoming a martial artist when he discovered the Filipino martial arts I had the same epiphany myself. I was a karate bumUntil one day my friend came into our college club swinging two sticks like propellers on a plane, and I was mesmerized. My only disappointment is just finding out now at 63 years old that Dan wrote more than one book! Had I known that I would’ve bought them all

[@TheSubwaysurfer]

Dans book American freestyle Karate, is the quintessential Karate manual for Americans. Asians come from a culture where they are instructed to do things repetitiously and then the understanding comes. Americans always need to know why and how and then ounces both of those questions over and over again in this groundbreaking book I feel that it should be a part of every instructorsMartial arts library and it should certainly be a part of every competitors library