What can Karate teach us? Follow me on my quest through Japan to answer this question. By Shinji Akita The Shotokan Times asked me this interesting question a few month ago. I wanted to pursue […]
What does Karate mean to you? It is a hobby? A passion? Has it changed your life? Has it guided you throught difficult moments? Has it helped you to see things differently? In this wonderful […]
Rika Usami and Miki Nakamachi took part in the shooting of a film about karate for the Olympics 2020 in Tokyo last week. We talked with Miki Nakamachi about the shooting and her experiences on […]
By Dr. Christian Tribowski According to an article by the BBC at the beginning of this year, the organizing committee of the Olympics 2024 in Paris will Karate not include Karate in the program. The […]
By Thomas D. McKinnon I have heard many so called experts criticising the hikite as a pointless exercise. It makes no sense, they say, that pulling one hand in the opposite direction, to the one […]
By Marco Sanna The Origin of Karate Do as Martial Art Back in the days, martial arts prepared warriors for hand-to-hand combat. Self-protection was paramount. In such a system was little room for art, spiritualism, […]
By Dr. Christian Tribowski Have you ever found yourself in a deep discussion about Shotokan Karate Philosophy? Have you ever felt torn apart between different aspects of Shotokan like bushido on the one hand and […]
By Michael Ehrenreich If we travel through the Shotokan world we will observe a very common picture. All over the globe, Shotokan Karatekas commit to a very high level of technical skills. This commitment reflects […]
Don’t we love all the intellectual and mythic comments of our Japanese Karate Sensei? 技とは無から生ずる瞬間的和の芸術 Waza towa Mu kara shozuru shunkanteki Wa no Geijutsu A Waza is a Harmony of Art arising instantaneously from Nothingness […]
So Karate means “Empty Hand”. At least today it does. But that was not always the case. How come that experienced practitioners start using Kobudo weapons as well? Not so empty handed any more. Well, […]
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