1-Early history
Karate
is a Japanese word consisting of Kara that means fight, and Tie that means
empty hand, empty from any weapon. And religious men took care of this new way
and developed it. The Indian monk Bodhedrama has transferred this martial art
to China when he flew from India to the Shaolin Temple in the South East of
China. The Chinese martial arts moved during the late second century AD to
Japan and became more sophisticated, so we find that this art went to Okinawa
five centuries ago. The art of karate is not limited to a certain age, but it
is suitable for all ages. Modern Karate is a good method to act in self-defense
based on fitness and physical and mental powers without the use of weapons.
Karate practitioners should have flexibility and muscle strength and speedy
responses. This art extends to thought and develops it, and increases
self-confidence, boldness, courage and also supports control of sensation and
feeling among individuals.
2-Development
Karate grew up in Okinawa when many researchers investigated
about the secrets and the emergence of this art, in order to know and write the
history of this secret art of self-defense. Clear the secrecy of this science
began in 1905 when one supervisor, recommended including karate as curriculum
in usual school Shori and middle school in Okinawa as well. In order to
introduce this art initially to the student without giving skill that could
cause death or direct harm to others, and these skills used to be indicator to
the ability of this art on destruction and harm others. Then came the founder
of modern karate Master Jesheen Funakoshi, who was responsible for the methods
in karate as we know it today. He was born in Okina in 1868, and at the age of
eleven, he began to study Karate because he wanted to be a teacher in different
styles of this art, he taught in
Okinawa and he describes the Shuri Funakoshi style as
heavy and powerful movement.
3- Modern
Developments
In 1921,
Master Funakoshi developed karate and displayed the karate art and in the following year, he
founded the Master Funakoshi, the first school to teach karate do in Tokyo,
Japan. In 1935, Funakoshi published Karate-Do Kyohon which is one of the most
important stages of karate which reviewed Karate and adjusted so that
it is apdated from a very complex picture to an image that can it performed by
players of different ages. The names of Kata have been changed to reflect the
names of the original Okinawa to make it easy to understand it. In 1937, Karate
became a strong foundation and entered different associations in Okinawa in
Japanese martial arts union and established a branch in Okinawa. Training
methods, also were the last subject that took his attention, while there was
only the Kata in the past. He divided the exercise into three kinds; the
fundamentals and Fake Fighting Kata and Actual Fighting Kumite. Although karate
was unknown, it has survived and flourished to the pupils of Master Funakoshi
who stayed after the war, began in assembly and assisted Funakoshi to build a
Cotocan school again and helped him in making the modern history of karate.
Master Funakoshi died in 1957 at the age of 90 years and he left the world a
group of experts who contributed to the deployment and development of karate
around the world.
Total: 600 words
Bibliography:
Name: Ghassab Saleh Abdullah
ID: H00011693
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