for all u losers writing here start to train karate instead of writing all this bullshit the best kata is ananko.

I actually take this kind of karate. Currently a Shodan-ho (tennage black belt). Favorite kata is Wankan or pinan yandan.

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i want to do martial arts , i used to be in ShaoLin for about 2 years, the only ting i don't like about it is there is much testing and when i watch thing like Drunken Master i just want to do it that way have one teacher that can help me , i need to be watched constantly so i get the forms just right, but iam in a lame town that has nothing like that.
sorry i just thought i would complain.

Oh wwll, cant say much, my favourite is pinan godan or naihanchi-sandan

my dream is to one day to travel to okinawa and train there ! i would mind doing naha-te or toute god

wrong, that is not the meaning… even because karate-Do teach how to use knives, staff and of course, the sword… karate has a deeper meaning…

Tekki Shodan!!! one of my favorite Katas

The reason for having reorganized Toute (唐手) with Karate (空手).
Funakoshi (Okinawan) took in Buddhistic thought and wrote it as Karate (空手).
It has the meaning of not having Weapon there.
The person who asks nationalism for a reason has war aftereffect.

the book will say that Funakoshi created the shotokan, am i right? so i think that i will stay with what i know…

Sorry Hito but you need to read more on karate history. Try "Unante" by John Sells. Its expensive for a book but worth every single penny.

Some members of the ti school combined elements of what they learned from the Fujian traders, creating the foundation on which Okinawan karate was created. Hence, the original name, touti (China-hand), was simply a combination of 'tou' (China) and 'ti'(hand; the traditional Okinawan martial style).

Karate became popular in Japan in the second and third decades of the 20th century after some Okinawan teachers, most notably Gichin Funakoshi, brought Okinawan karate to the mainland.

In the times of the independent Ryukyu Kingdom, before it was invaded by Japan and forcibly annexed and turned into Okinawa Prefecture, traders from Fujian Province in southern China, who specialized in Crane style gongfu, brought their fighting style to Shuri, the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

However, toute itself is a mix of a traditional Okinawa martial art pronounced ti (手)in Okinawan (more properly Ryukyuan) in the Shuri area of the main island of Okinnwa, and Crane style gongfu from southern China. In Japanese, the kanji for 'ti' is pronounced 'te' and forms the 'te' of 'karate'.

'Toute' (唐手) means China-hand (ie China fist). The two Chinese characters can also be pronounced 'karate' in Japanese. As someone mentioned, nationalism and anti-sinoism in Japan was the impetus behind changing the kanji to 空手 (karate; lit. empty-hand), which is what the martial art is known as today.

Im talkin about the place..but the martial arts as well. It looks like a japanese version of chinese shaolin culture and practices.

my grandpa is 50% japanese so that makes me 12-13% and he taught me art of the pressuring its sweet tho cuz i can hit any of any1s most vital pressure points…

Okinawa has different culture from the rest of the Japan like Texas and NY… it doesnt mean they are not Japanese, they are and they have proud… Karate-Do was created based on 3 tipes of combat used by samurai, but all the japanese martial arts has influence from kung-fu…

its not a temple or anything like that its a martial art.

hmmm…I know very little about okinawa, but it looks to me like the japanese version of the chinese shaolin temple. Very cool.

Karate was not created by Funakoshi. Funakoshi himself was an Okinawan, and he was trained by Azato Anko and Anko Itosu. The original name of karate is To de , or "China hand.

From my understanding, Okinawa as a culture is separate from both China and Japan. The Okinawans at different times had to pay tribute to both China and Japan, but Karate is a mixture of Okinawan Te and Chinese arts.

ryukyu was one whole country.
not part of china

japanese karate and chinese kung fu has many
differences.
and ryukyu was one whole country.
not part of china