History of karate

The style of Shotokan Karate is a school of karate founded by Gichin Funakoshi (1868-1957). Initially the Master Funakoshi did not believe in creating styles, but that all karate should be one, even with the natural differences of education ranging from teacher to teacher. Shoto was Funakoshi signed his poems as a means pine trees waving in the wind and kan means building or hall.



Funakoshi's students built a dojo (place of the Way) in his honor and called Shotokan (Shoto Building). It is believed that the cause of this is style name. The Shotokan was destroyed during bombing in World War II.



Master Funakoshi was born in the city of Shuri on the island of Okinawa in 1868 and was responsible for the spread of karate on the main islands of the Japanese archipelago and further to the west. At age eleven he began his studies with Yasutsune Azato who taught Shuri-te style and Yasutsune Its who taught Naha-te style. The mixture of these two styles would result in the Shotokan style. His biography is called "Karate-do": "My way of life." For both new lines that appear as single sucesoras of Gichin Funakoshi, soil wishing to capitalize on the Master in his favor. The "karate" by Shigeru Egami, not karate Gichin Funakoshi but changes people abandonaron the original teaching. On April 26, 1957 Gichin Funakoshi died.



The Shotokan style is characterized by strong bases, predominance of hand movements and kicks on the entire body. The twists on the heel low position give fluidity to the movement and all movement begins with a defense. This is a style in which the positions have a very low center of gravity, and that the technique of a "simple" direct punch, can never be mastered, and is only with many years of training, but when the technique is dominated His power is incredible, almost superhuman. In karate shotokan facts are taken seriously as the concentration and state of mind, because without concentration and a mild state of mind but determined to técnina achieve little and should expand these two attributes with the practice and determination. The main bases of the Shotokan style are: HEIKO-dachi, Kake-Dachi, Kiba-Dachi, KOKUTSU-Dachi, TSURUACHI-Dachi, musubi-dachi, NEKOASHI-Dachi, Sanchi-dachi, Shiko-dachi, and UCHINACHIJI zenkutsu-E-Dachi Dachi. Since the fundamental bases, present in most katas are Zenkutsu-dachi, Kokutso-dachi and Kiba-dachi.

Karate, Karate, Karate or karate-do is a form of budo (way of the warrior). Japanese martial art that originated in Okinawa and was introduced in the main islands of the Japanese archipelago in 1922. Karate emphasizes self defense techniques (ie blocking, punching and kicking) instead of fighting techniques from projections and immobilizations. The karate training can be divided into three main parts: kihon, kumite and kata. Kihon is the study of basic movements. Kumite means fighting and can be executed or set free form. Kata means form and is a kind of struggle against imaginary enemies, expressed in fixed sequences of movements.Desfazer edições.