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Already more than thousand years ago became karate of buddhistischen monks and founders of the Zen, which in the monastery Shaolin Szu in China lived exercised.
Traditionally the theory applies that the Indian monk Buddhidarma introduced with its Pilgerreise from India to China carats there in the Shaolin the monastery. It instructed its pupils in body-strong exercises, from which the monks won large perseverance and strength as well as spirit strength. On the other hand the monks could use these techniques than protection against Wegelagerer and robbers. Therefore one developed a formal instructional system, which Kata, with which all exercises also without partners could be accomplished.
This combat art was continued to develop ever and brought later by the Chinese on the Japanese island Okinawa. The inhabitants mixed their own combat art with the new techniques, and as the possession of arms Feudalherr of one were forbidden, developed inadvertently fighting with empty hands the more and more. Due to its Chinese origin the combat art finally received karate to the names.
The modern master of this art, Gichin Funakoshi, which 1957 at the age of 88 years died, changed the characters in the way, which they mean today with same discussion "empty hand". For Funakoshi karate a combat art was simultaneous, in addition, a way of the character figuration.
1922 were introduced carats for the first time officially to the Japanese public. Japan became the center of the karate. From this four large schools of Japan developed:
Shotokan, Wado Ryu, Gojo Ryu, and Shito Ryu.
Today exist numerous other forms of karate, which were developed however by pupils of the first four traditional kinds of karate:
for example Kyokushinkai, Shotokai, Sankudai.
In Korea the Taekwondo developed. They all belong to a trunk of a tree.
Shihan Peter Steinmann
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