"SHOTOKAN KARATE" ONE OF THS MOST POPULAR STYLES OF KARATE

THIS VIDEO IS ABOUT THE FOUNDATION OF SHOTOKAN KARATE.
ESTABLISHED BY GICHIN FUNAKOSHI AND HIS SON GIGO FUNAKOSHI ALONG WITH THE HELP OF HIS STUDENTS. AND LATER ESTABLISHING THE J.K.A (JAPAN KARATE ASSOCIATION INCLUDING THE LEGEND AND FIRST TO ATTAIN THE 10TH RANK OF BLACK BELT MASATOSHI NAKAYAMA AND ISSAO OBATA AND HIDETAKA NISHIYAMA.
SHOTOKAN KARATE IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR KARATE STYLES TODAY AND PRACTICED ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
FUNKAKOSHI SENSEI BEGAN IN SHORIN-RYU KARATE AND WHEN HE ARRIVED IN MAINLAND JAPAN BEGAN TO TEACH KARATE AT VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES, HE LATER COMBINED HIS KNOWLEDGE AND FOUNDED SHOTOKAN KARATE ALONG WITH HIS SON GIGO FUNAKOSHI.
HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS BRIEF HISTORY OF SHOTOKAN KARATE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE J.K.A.
ALOHAS~

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I know he gets a lot of flak for dumbing down the techniques to make it public friendly, but the end result is that instead of being a backwater martial art that no one knows about, it’s a world wide way of life that literally millions of people of all the skin colors can share together.
For example, I don’t speak a word of Portuguese, but I can go to Brazil tomorrow and train at a dojo there because of the usage of Japanese terminology and the fact that Funokoshi spread karate to the entire world.
So yeah, the loss of all the dirty fighting techniques in the forms are worth the result. And also, it’s not a total loss because of the Westerners using reverse engineering on finding out the original techniques.