Northwest Okinawan
Goju Ryu Karate
The History of Karate
The Zen Buddhist Monk Bodidharma (Daruma) is commonly considered
the originator of the martial arts including karate. In the sixth century he
traveled across the him Himalayan Mountains from India arriving in Hunan, province
of China. He proceeded to start up a monastery for his disciples to develop
and practice their religion.
Eventually Bodidharma noted that although his disciples were strong mentally,
there were weak physically and were always suffering under the attacks of
bandits and muggers. Bodidharma decided to develop a fighting system for his
monks to solve this problem. He used the precepts and principles of animals
to develop his fighting system. Taking the strong points of animals such as
the tiger, monkey, leopard, crane and snake. Bodidharma also employed various
breathing techniques of the animals to better the health of the monks.
As time went on, merchants from Okinawa came to China where
they traded silks and spices and met with Bodidharma and his monks. Eventually
they too learned some of the martial arts fighting systems and took the knowledge
back to Okinawa. At the time all metal weapons were outlawed in Okinawa. Through
a few modifications ordinary farm tools became the weapons and the techniques
learned from Bodidharma helped to defend the farmers from the ruthless samurai
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