Okinawan karate

short history of okinawan karate

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Sports

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• karate
• shorin
• ryu
• okinawan

[6arcsn1sky]

@TheDiseaseDevil Awesome that you're the few people that knows karate is culturally an Okinawan craft, not a craft made by mainland Japan.

[seadog27able]

The techniques that karate uses comes from shaolin dim mak. In its true use, no motion is wasted on defense to attack. All movements were all attack and the effects were usually instant. Chinese taught to attack the attacker. This threw the opponent off guard. Both tuite and kyusho jitsu are the best examples. Tuite came from an art in China called chi-na and kyusho jitsu came from dim mak. It was changed by later masters and watered down so children wouldn't hurt each other in training.

[seadog27able]

Okinawa, just like other places, has a history that's different than what people think. Even I am learning that it was a different kingdom altogether. In a way it's something like Korea. I learned that just like Korea, Okinawa got some of its martial arts from China. The difference is instead of having a country unified, it was conquered by another country. Okinawan karate(Kempo in the native dialect.) Came from the shorinji(Shaolin) The closest proof is the famous crane technique.

[1banryukyu]

@TheDiseaseDevil

I think some people may not understand that the Ryukyu O kuni or the Ryukyuan Kingdom came to an end in 1879 or Meiji Ji Dai 11 nen. And that the first Prefecture or Ken time period of Okinawa Ken was in 1879 and the second Okinawan Prefecture time period started in 1972 or Showa Ji Dai 47 nen. They may only know of Okinawa as a Ken of Japan and not it's Ryukyuan Kingdom time period. Osu

[MrTerryKay]

It's amazing to see a photo of a whole school from over 100 years ago doing pretty much the same Gedan Barai as we do today.

[TheDiseaseDevil]

hear that, ignorant morons, it's originated in okinawa, NOT japan!!! im so sick of hearing self-righteous people saying karate is founded by japanese farmers to defend themselves from samurai! japanese people loved their samurais dumbasses

[carlopicasso]

@Coldshadow25 That actually looks like Steve Armstrong. Isshinryu Karate. He studied under Tatsuo Shimabuko. It's hard to tell.

[carlopicasso]

That actually looks like Steve Armstrong. Isshinrtu Karate. Hard to tell. He studied under Tatsuo Shimabuko

[rosswoof]

It does amaze me just how wrong people can get Okinawan history. I shall think about making a better video that reflects the true history of Okinawa and Ryukyu Kingdom.

[Coldshadow25]

Okay is that tall guy Dolf Lundgren? It looks so much like him.