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"Karate" (stylized in all caps) is a song by the Japanese heavy metal band Babymetal from their second studio album, Metal Resistance. The song was released to active rock radio as an airplay-only single in the United States on February 26, 2016.
Chōjirō Tani began teaching the Karate style Shūkōkai (meaning the way for all) [2] at a dojo in Kobe, Japan, in 1946. Shūkōkai was designed around the study of body mechanics, is very fast due to its relatively high stance aiding mobility, [ 3 ] and is known for the double hip twist , which maximises the force of its strikes; making it ...
Around 1905, when karate began to be taught in public schools in Okinawa, tōde was read kun’yomi and called karate (唐手, lit. ' Tang hand ') in the Japanese style. Both tōde and karate are written in the same Chinese characters meaning "Tang/China hand," but the former is on'yomi (Chinese reading) and the latter is kun'yomi (Japanese ...
Karate terms come almost entirely from Japanese. The following terms are not exclusive to karate. The following terms are not exclusive to karate. They appear during its study and practice, varying depending on style and school.
Kata is a loanword in English, from the 1950s in reference to the judo kata due to Jigoro Kano, and from the 1970s also of karate kata; but the word has come to be used as a generic term for "forms" in martial arts in general, or even figuratively applied to other fields.
Kyokushin (極真) [a] is a style of karate originating in Japan.It is a full-contact style of stand-up fighting and is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline, and hard training.
Complicating the picture, somewhat, is the possibility that there may have been more than one early Korean karate system bearing the Yun Mu Kwan name as there appears to have been a second Korean karate "kwan", with the "Yun Moo Kwan" appellation established after the closing of the original Chosun Yun Mu Kwan, the advent of the Korean War and ...
Wanshū (ワンシュー, also 腕秀 and 汪輯) is the name of several katas in many systems of karate, [1] including Isshin-Ryu, Shotokan (under the name Empi), Wadō-ryū, and others. The name Wanshū (腕秀) in Mandarin means "Excellent Wrist" and refers to a typical technique of this form.