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Tradition… A word heard often when speaking about Karate. Traditional values. Traditional techniques. Tr...

Gusukuma Shinpan (1890-1954), also known as Shiroma Shinpan (Gusukuma is Okinawan dialect) was a master of Kar...

What is the purpose of Karate? To become famous? To be looked upon like some semi-god and bowed to? Of course ...

Step into the time machine. [woosh! sound of flying back in time] Now step out. We are in 1867. March 24th. Lo...

Everyone learns in his or her own pace. Some people need maybe half the time other people need, just to learn ...

Many people think it’s hard to apply techniques from kata in a self-defense scenario. “How can thi...

This is the second part of “Mysticism in Karate”. Please read part 1 if you haven’t! Okay, l...

In Karate we often deal with numbers. So this post is going to be about that. When I wrote the word mysticism ...

The following was written by Ueshiba Morihei, founder of Aikido. He might have not have been training Karate, ...

When, and how, did Chinese Quan-fa (Gong-fu/Kung-fu) arrive in Okinawa? This is a question that has bugged man...

Punching, kicking, grappling, throwing, striking, headbutting, locking, kneeing, breaking, elbowing, throwing&...