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Karate—the worlds most popular martial art—originated in Okinawa, now a Japanese prefecture with strong historical ties to China as well as Japan. Over 1,000 years old, Karate began as a training practice for monks in the ancient Orient. It owes the fundamentals of its techniques to Kung Fu, from China, and Japans jujitsu fighting, but also contains elements of other fighting systems, including Roman gladiatorial combat, Japanese sumo wrestling and the type of weaponless fighting native to countries like Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Okinawa was under the strong influence of both China and Japan from the 14th century, but had its own language and culture until 1879, when it was officially annexed by Japan. Various rulers between the 15th and 17th centuries set a ban on weapons to prevent rebellion, which resulted in the rise of weaponless fighting techniques. The native Okinawan martial art, called Te (hand), combined with Kung Fu to become known as Kode Te (Chinese hand), which was changed to Kara Te (empty hand) around the turn of the 19th century with the advent of Japanese rule.

A fighter named Gichin Funakoshi was credited for introducing Karate to the Japanese, and later to the rest of the world, when he led a demonstration in 1921 for then-Crown Prince Hirohito during a royal visit to Okinawa. After World War II, when U.S. forces occupied Okinawa, American soldiers began training in Karate methods, and Karate is now practiced by 50 million people around the globe.

Incorporating special breathing and shouts, Karate is as much about self-discipline as it is about power. Karate stresses striking as opposed to grappling or throwing an opponent. Fighters direct focused strikes with the hands, elbows, knees or feet towards the most vulnerable areas of the opponents body, including the face, neck, spinal column, groin and kidneys. A geri, or kick, is a focused blow with the leg delivered either low, to bring the opponent to his knees, or high, to cause injury to the head. In competitive karate, fighters are only allowed to hit above the waist, and all blows are pulled; in a traditional fight, any of the blows can be fatal.

Training methods for Karate fighters include breathing techniques as well as strengthening the hands by driving them into containers of sand or rice and striking special punching boards. Fighters wear loose fitting white uniforms similar to pajamas (called gi) and no padding or protective gear. They train at centers called dojos, and are ranked by a belt system—adapted in the 1920s from Judo—with belt colors ranging from light (white) to dark (black) to indicate ascending levels of mastery.

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[FinalFantasyLover14]

oooooohhh you hear that?

NIIIICE :D

[jackoadeetayo1]

why do you think that is?

[hazza3]

@boris999222666 Its not the style you should insult, but its the sport.

[Rebaz96]

thanks for posting

[sum41foreverown]

ooh do you hear that? niice

[TheObelix876]

@boris999222666 aha i only do competitions in kickboxing / thai boxing so :P

[boris999222666]

@TheObelix876 i have 13 years of karate and 5 of jujitsu behind me and as such fully know the effectivness of both my (stupidy worded) comment was about this style of compition and the bad habbits it wil inflict on its students. no head strikes with hands will lead to an incorrect fighting range and a unrealistic guard in close quarters. bad habbits when picked up are hard to drop!!

[TheObelix876]

@boris999222666 there are only no punches to the head in competition, i cant say for other schools but we always train full contact and include head kicks/ aswell as throws / jointlocks and punches to the head during training, the reason they dont throw punches to the head is because it is really dangerous especially if you do alot of competition why do you think alot of boxers get alzheimerz ( WITH GLOVES) and trust me karate is much more brutal then a bar fight

[andrebading]

lol the most brutal is muay thai watch them fight just for money

[pitbull1547]

not shito ryu...there are many diff style of karate..and shotoryu are one of them.....hard to explain..=_=....