Why Is Karate Popular In Entertainment?

Now you have learned what the martial arts about, I'm going to be explaining how karate's used for entertainment. Karate was spread through the west (North America); karate had influenced Canada, Korea, Soviet Union (1922-1991), United States, Europe, United Kingdom, Italy, and France outside of Japan. I bet you're asking right now saying, "When did they started filming movies that included martial arts?" They started making martial arts in the 1970s, it had become a mainstream genre that pushed karate and all other martial arts into media and popularity. (Ex. Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.) That's why karate used for entertainment because it draws attention to the audience and makes more people interested with martial arts.

Internet Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate#Film_and_popular_culture_in_the_West

Martial Arts Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_martial_arts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawan_martial_arts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenjutsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sōjutsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjutsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_gi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_belt
Punching Basics, Jackknife Hand Block, rules in the dojo, and Rising Block - Karate Class West St. Paul Sunova Centre


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Update on Techinques 1

I have to keep going to Sunova Centre because I tend to forget after the lessons. But I will keep going there so I can learn the techniques and then post them on the blog. This may take awhile. ~Jacqueline.

Sōjutsu

That martial art means art of the spear; it means you'll have to fight with a spear. The spear (Yari) was a well known weapon throughout the feudal period of Japan, it was being cheap to produce and required less training than other battlefield weapons and contributing itself to close development of ashigaru troops. Sōjutsu became popular immediately after the Mongol Invasion in the thirteenth century. Today Sōjutsu is a minor art that is taught in few schools.

Ninjutsu part 2

Here are the weapons they used for their martial art.

Composite and articulated weapons:

Kusarigama: Long robe or chain
Kyoketsu: Rope dart
Bo staff: Long wooden staff
Kusari-fundo: a chain and weight weapon

Fistload weapons:

Kakute: These rings are poison tipped spines, they are used to strangle the enemies.
Shobo: A piercing weapon
Shuriken: throwing darts
Tekko: The early brass knuckles
Tessen: A folding fan with a iron frame
Jutte: Similar to Sai

Modified Tool Weapons

Kunai: A multi-objective tool
Shikoro: It's used for stabbing/slashing and opening doors

Projectile Weapon

Fukiya: A blowgun with poisonous darts
Makibishi/tetsubishi:
Yuma and Ya: Bow and Arrow
Bo-hiya: fire arrow
Tekagi-shuko and Neko-te: claw hand weapon

Staff and polearms

Hanbo, bō, jō, and tambo: Staff
Yari: Spear
Nagamaki: A polearm with a blade and a handle
Nagiata: A polearm similar to Yari

Swords

Katana: A long curved single edged sword
Wakizashi: short sword can be hidden by the ninja's body as a back up weapon
Ninjato: short-bladed sword
Tantō: dagger
Kaiken: Same thing but similar to Tantō
Bokken: Traditional Wooden Sword
Shinai: Bambo Sword

Stealth Tools:

Kaginawa: grappling hook
Shinobi Shōzoku: ninja clothing
Ono: Axe and hatchet

Ninjutsu Part 1

You probably clicked on the post because you're thinking the word "ninja." Well I will be explaining about Ninjutsu, the art of stealth. Ninjutsu was developed by groups of people from the Iga province and Kōta, Shiga of Japan. During the course of history the shinobi (ninja) have been sighted as assassins, scouts, and spies. They were mostly known for the use of stealth and deception. Ninjutsu included of obtaining information, and the techniques of going in without detection, escapism, and misdirection. It also involves training including free running, disguise, escape, concealment, archery, and medicine.

There are eighteen skills that shows the same way of a samurai and ninja, the other techniques are used differently by those two groups.

1. Seishinteki kyōyō — spiritual refinement
2. Taijutsu — unarmed combat
3. Kenjutsu — sword techniques
4. Bōjutsu — stick and staff skills
5. Sōjutsu — spear skills
6. Naginatajutsu — angina tea skills
7. Kusarigamajutsu — kusarigama skills
8. Shurikenjutsu — throwing weapons techniques
9. Kayakujutsu — pyrotechnics
10. Hensōjutsu — disguise and impersonation
11. Shinobi-iri — stealth and entering methods
12. Bajutsu — horsemanship
13. Sui-ren — water training
14. Bōryaku — tactics
15. Chōhō — espionage
16. Intonjutsu — escaping and concealment
17. Tenmon — meteorology
18. Chi-mom — geography

I will explain the other ones on the next post. To be continued...

Kenjutsu

Kenjutsu translates the art of the sword. Although the term relates to the swordsmanship; Today kenjutsu refers to the specific feature of swordmanship is dealing with partnered sword training. It's the oldest form of training, it's at the simplest level, to be pared with two partners wielding their swords and practicing combat drills. It's historically practised with the wooden katana. Among to the experts, kenjutsu training may include increased degree of freestyle practise.

* Remember every time if hear/see the word "jutsu" in Japanese it literally means "the art of."

Jujutsu part 2

However they are the methods of combat including striking, throwing, restraining, and weaponry. They are defensive tactics including blocking, evading, off balancing, blending, and escaping. Today, jujutsu's practised in many forms between both the past and present. Various techniques of jujutsu's been combined into judo and aikido, as well being spread throughout the world and transformed into sport wrestling systems, adopted whole or parts of the martial arts school or the unrelated martial arts, jujutsu's still practised as they were centuries ago.


I am so sorry it wouldn't let me post the whole article in a single post. I had to do it separate. :(
~Jacqueline.

Jujutsu part 1

Jujutsu's a martial arts which translates to art of pliance. This martial art shows the art of indirect force, such as throwing techniques, defeating an opponent, opposing to punches and kicks in a direct force. This doesn't suggest that jujutsu does not teach and employ strikes, but to put it another way the art's aim is the ability to use the attacker's force against the opponent, and counter attack when they're not defended or they're weak.

Japanese Martial Arts

In this post I will be talking about Japanese martial arts. These martial arts can only be found in the warrior traditions of a samurai and the caste system that restricts weapons by the members who are not warriors. These combative weapons that they interwined the tools used was to execute those techniques. However when it changed as the tools they used started to change and required the tools to be reinvented. The Japanese weapons were slowly evolving as well of the rest of the world, the teachings and the training of martial arts did evolved. However they are different categories that represents the Japanese martial arts are jujutsu, kenjutsu, Iaijutsu, Naginajutsu, sojutsu, and ninjutsu. I will explain one of those categories in the next post.

Okinawan Martial Arts

There are two different martial arts that both fighting techniques come from are Okinawan martial arts and Japanese martial arts. But I'm going to be explaining about Okinawan martial arts first. Okinawan martial arts were formed in 1372, the Chinese martial arts were introduced to Ryukyu Islands (it becomes Okinawa, Japan later) by visitors from China. Chinese families immigrated to Okinawa sometime in 1392 for cultural exchange, where they established the Kumemura community and shared their knowledge of a wide variety of Chinese arts, science, and marital arts. The early styles of karate are Shuri-te, Naha-te, and Tomari-te; they were named after the three villiages from which later on they would merge. I'll explain about the Japanese Martial Arts on the next post.