how was karate made ?

Answer 1

No one knows the answer to this question for certain. But, there are plenty of theories.

One that sounds reasonable is that Chinese traders introduced a form of Kung Fu to the islands of Japan hundreds, of not a thousand years ago. The Japanese developed their own version for the military prior to the first World War.

During the Second World War, Japan occupied most of Asia, including the countries of China, and Thailand. Modern day Karate most likely includes influences from this period as well. These theories make more sense to me. If you study Japanese culture, they seems to be very open to copying and improving on whatever technology they are exposed to, ie. automobiles and electronics.

Prior to the Pacific War, hand to hand combat in Japan consisted of Judo/Jujitsu and a striking style that resembles modern day Karate. Most scholars agree that Karate grew out of the Kung Fu/China branch as both styles contain some of the same stances/positions. It is not very probable that Karate developed naturally in the same fashion as Kung Fu though.

The reason is that Kung Fu forms are based on the movements of animals, real or myth, and the country of Japan just did not have some of the animals that the forms are based on. There are no native tigers,bears, or horses in island nation of Japan.

Note- The islands of Okinawa are located about half way between China and Japan. However, Okinawa was an independent territory, not part of Japan until 1607. The islands were not even unified until the 15th century. It is the location of the islands that lend weight to the theory that Kung Fu first came to Okinawa, ergo the birthplace of Karate. But the Chinese were already trading directly with the Japanese at Tokyo and Nagasaki at the same time. With all due respect to Mr. Miagi.

There is no official correct answer to these theories, but most I have read are founded on some sort of solid history.

Answer 2

Karate originated in Ryukyuan(now known as Okinawa a part of Japan).Karate canged over the years with Chinese Kempo influences as well as Japanese Bushido influences. A straight forward fighting style.That Has become the most popular Martial are in the world.

Answer 3

In ancient china there was a bad problem with the samuri. They were the gangsters of the time robbing and killing the farmers. The peasents were not allowed to have weapons. So they developed a fighting style, te, meaning empty. This was because it used no weapons. Later it became karate, the way of the empty hand. Then the koreans brought it from china. Then it slowly traveled around the world.

Answer 4

Karate is a martial art that was originally created in Okinawa. It is a mixture of the local art of te (hand), and the chinese (kara) fighting arts. It was originally called China hand (karate). When the japanese took over Okinawa, the practice of any martial art became illegal. The okinawans practiced in secrecy. Much later, in the 1920's and 1930's, the art was taken to Japan. There the kanji was changed to mean empty hand, but was still pronounced karate. It was taught to the Japanese, and they made it part of the martial arts of Japan.

Answer 5

The Bodhidharma moved from India to China, where he took over a small Buddhist monastery, Shaolin. Here, the monks were so sickly, they couldn't meditate for any duration of time, so the Bodhidharma developed exercises out of his military experience designed primarily for health, but also for "moral" civil-self-defense. At some point, the Shaolin temple had to move from Hunan to Fukien Province, China. Many Chinese families moved to Okinawa, and Okinawa had much trade with Fuzhou (in China) through merchants, and government officials. Kung Fu (Chuan Fa/Kempo) made it's way to Okinawa, where it blened heavily with the Okinawan Punching system, as well as martial arts from Anan. (now Vietnam, which had martial arts very similar to Muay Thai) Over centuries, Okinawan Karate developed, until Okinawa was taken over by the Japanese governemnt, officially. (Satsuma Samurai had been in Okinawa for a long time before this, influencing the development of Karate) Karate then was officially exported to Japan before WWII by Gichin Funakoshi, Kenwa Mabuni, and Choki Motobu, while many of the top masters stayed in Okinawa teaching; Chotoku Kyan, Chojun MIyagi and others. After WWII, the Karate word was split into two by America's control of Okinawa. Okinawan karate-ka (notably, Tatsuo Shimabuku, Eizo Shimabukuro, Chojun Miyagi, and others) taught American servicement Karate, which they brought home to the states.
Meanwhile, as Korea obtained it's independence from Japan, they developed Taekwondo and Tang Soo Do off Japanese Karate, and traditional Korean styles, which they also taught to American servicemen during this time.

Answer 6

Karate or karate-dō is a martial art that developed from a synthesis of indigenous Ryukyuan fighting methods, Chinese kempo and concepts from classical Japanese martial arts. "Karate" originally meant hand in the Chinese language, but was later changed to a homonym meaning "empty hand" in Japanese. It is known primarily as a striking art, featuring punching, kicking, knee/elbow strikes and open handed techniques. However, grappling, joint manipulations, locks, restraints/traps, throws and vital point striking also appear in karate. A practitioner of karate is called a karateka.

Answer 7

Be very cautious right here. I am now not siding with ANYONE however you ought to realise that at 10 years historical normally they will listen whatever that wasn't rather stated. I am talking from revel in. Will now not get into that with my reply however believe me in this one. Our process as mum and dad is to defend our kids and ensure they're in an atmosphere in which they're revered and handled as such. I will method the teacher and make him mindful of what my daughter has advised me. To be reasonable, you need to provide this guy a threat to both deny or comply with the accusation. However, as a mum or dad, in spite of if he's denying it and is strongly doing so, I could take my daughter out as a precaution.

Answer 8

it's late right now and my brain isn't functioning up to par at the moment. however, if you can catch Human Weapon on the history channel, i'm sure they will do a re-run a few time this week of last friday's episode about karate. they gave a pretty good, brief history of the art. if you want any more. search it on google or yahoo and read the wikipedia stuff. i'm going to bed now.

Answer 9

There's a Japanese judo man who go to china, he have a spar with a Chinese martial artist and lose. (as in judo they only use grappling, throwing and submission technique, he realize he need to learn punching and kicking)

Then he start to learn Chinese martial art with the one who beat him, until there's a war there.

The Japanese man help the Chinese to fight the war, and when the war end, he come back to his home land and start a new martial art dojo named KARATE

Answer 10

it comes from the southern chinese tiger and crane systems of kungfu its a grotesque replica of the chinese martial arts : )