Okinawan International Karate Tournament 2009 opening ceremony

This tournament is a big deal for the karate world because this tournament represents the unification of the 4 major Karate organizations in Okinawa. It was held in Naha's amazing martial arts stadium the Budokan

This is the eisa dance (えいさ) for the opening ceremony.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• eisa
• okinawan
• okinawa
• dance
• Budokan
• Naha
• Karate
• International
• Tournament
• 2009
• August
• えいさ
• Okinawa
• 那覇
• 沖縄
• 空手
• 沖縄県立武道館
• 沖縄伝統空手道世界大会

[marymodderful]

My son, Chris Braun, is in Okinawa for this event. Thank you for posting this. He e-mailed me but couldn't send pictures.

Mary Modder

[Vortekz]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I met some of the competitors from America, but not your son unfortunately.

[toshi0761]

空手（唐手）発祥の地！！！

[geek671]

i really wish we could have seen this instead of being stuck up stairs...

[SaintMoreetsi]

I think this is the opening ceremony, while all the countries were waiting upstairs for the march-on.

[supermilo44]

I just remembered we were part of the opening lol we were doing a kata

[supermilo44]

Aww man i was there but my team must've been somewhere else, it was still cool