Karate History…

Karate is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kenpō. It is primarily a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands and ridge-hands. Grappling, locks, restraints, throws, and vital point strikes are taught in some styles. A karate practitioner is called a karateka.

Doug writes about his latest class of Karate:

Sensei Gatch had us start class doing Heian Shodan and kata’s all the way up to our own rank kata.  We have done this before but the part that made it interesting was the Karate history that he explained between every couple of kata’s.