This book is not a "how-to" book in the sense you can learn karate from it. It is a tool for the novice to find a martial art system to study as well as select a school. It presents an overview of what to expect from teachers, your responsibilities as a student and what you will encounter on the road to earning a black belt in Kenpo Karate. For the black belt or school owner, it reveals the origins of the "new traditions" in today's karate school in America.

Lee Wedlake is a veteran school owner, tournament competitor, author and sought-after seminar instructor. He has taught across the United States and in Australia, Denmark, Sweden, England and Ireland. Competitively, he was the first Kenpo stylist to break into the Top Ten national rankings in black belt forms in 1980. Karate Illustrated magazine's July 1983 issue called him one of the "eleven prominent instructors" in the country. He was nominated to Inside Kung-Fu magazine's Kenpo Intructor of the Year, was included in the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame and nominated for the President's Service Award. As a personal student of Kenpo master Ed Parker, Wedlake brings to light more aspects of the history, structure and development of American Kenpo.

Softcover. 157 pages.