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Old Style Karate, Top 12 Ways It Differs From Modern Karate

The document outlines 12 key differences between old style karate and modern karate, including a focus on close range techniques, body conditioning practices, unusual striking surfaces, joint locking techniques, and medical knowledge. It notes that few dojos incorporate all 12 differences but those that include most are firmly in the old style category. The author plans to discuss each difference in more detail in future blog posts.

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Old Style Karate, Top 12 Ways It Differs From Modern Karate

The document outlines 12 key differences between old style karate and modern karate, including a focus on close range techniques, body conditioning practices, unusual striking surfaces, joint locking techniques, and medical knowledge. It notes that few dojos incorporate all 12 differences but those that include most are firmly in the old style category. The author plans to discuss each difference in more detail in future blog posts.

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Old style karate, top 12 ways it differs from modern karate.

When In first created this blog, I promised an article on what makes “Old style”
karate different from modern karate. Well now that I’ve sat down to outline this
article; I realize that it would not be possible to do the topic justice with a single
post. So I’ve decided to create a short post mentioning the top dozen differences
(as I see them). I hopefully will get around to discussing all of these as I continue to
post on this blog. 

Very few dojos actually incorporate all 12, but I feel that those schools which
include a majority are firmly in the “old style” category.

Motobu Choki doing a tuidi technique from Naihanchi Shodan (locking the right elbow
while trapping a left punch)

1) Focus on close range techniques and tactics

2) Emphasis on special qualities which often are expressed only by rare Okinawan
terminology (muchimi, chinkuchi, gyame, muchi, gamaku, ti nu umui, etc) 
  
3) Body Conditioning (kotekitae, Makiwara training , iron sand palm, etc)

4) Hojo-undo

5) Use of sensitivity drills (kakie etc)

6) Techniques not “squared off” or enlarged for aesthetic reasons

7) Use of unusual (typically very small) striking surfaces


8) Tuidi (aka gyakute or karamidi etc)

9) Medical knowledge (bone setting, kautsu, herbal medicine, moxa, cupping,


tsubo massage etc.)

10) Kiko / kokyu-ho

11) Kyusho / chibudi

12) Taisabaki / tenshin

Traditional hojo undo equipment used in my kiko training

I realize different people may come up with completely different lists. These are
what I consider the main differences. If you have differences you would like to add
please leave comments
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6 comments:

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reverbMarch 1, 2012 at 6:46 PM

...hello,
I came here from youtube.
I bookmarked your blog to read when I get more time.
-I live in Uruguay, and with mainly Argentina and then Brazil possibly we had here
(and still have more or less) in S America, better Japanese Karate and Aikido/jiu
jitsu masters than in USA due to WWII and the inmigrants.

I know and of course you know too, that some senseis teach some of those points to
certain students.

-the other thing that comes to mind is that Japanese Karate leaves (except small
more familiar ryus)in hands of sensei Nakayama. This and the necessity of Japan to
open to the world and have something to teach us that they (as goverment) were
proud, forced to "accommodate", adapt Karate to a more "user friendly" act.
This is very patent in Spain..there the Karate is truly a sport, also in USA I think
that is really a sport too, but Im not sure.

-In 2008 or so, I went to, I think the last seminar by sensei Nishiyama, and I tell you
that could be better, better for the students who have been practicing for years and
are good like Justo Gomez, however, he teached things that other sensei with less
dan can teached and nothing about lot of things this man obviously saw and know.
Then, after the seminar, in the street, Nishiyama and the interpreter smoking very
quiet...I thought about all those years living in the western USA society converted
this man in a more "businessman" facet (aspect) than in a sensei avid to pass his
knowledge (or the Karate).
But may be I was wrong and was a bad day for him..

-Im only an enthusiast so may be Im not very clever and cannot see the whole thing.

thanks

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