History and currents
From Okinawa to modern Shotokan
Shotokan results from successive transmissions between Okinawa, Japan and the rest of the world.
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Karate Encyclopedia Shotokan
Explore the Shotokan: history, techniques, 26 kata, working in pairs, pedagogy and life in the dojo. Original files, study areas and resources for each stage.
73 files · 26 kata · 25 languages
Where to start?
My first lessons
Attire, instructions and benchmarks: enter practice with confidence.
Understanding the movement
Link movements, hands, hips and availability.
Studying kata
Memorize, compare and deepen the 26 forms of the repertoire.
Work with others
Shared instructions, kumite progress and applications.
Accompany and transmit
Guidelines for parents, assistants and teachers.
Articles
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History and currents
Gichin Funakoshi: transmitting an art
Funakoshi (1868–1957) played a major role in the spread of Okinawan karate in Japan.
History and currents
Yoshitaka Funakoshi and Masatoshi Nakayama
The modern Shotokan is also the result of the work of students and subsequent generations.
Compare disciplines
Compare karate styles
The styles offer different methods for working on supports, shapes and partners.
Understand the techniques
The kihon: building a study method
The kihon isolates elements for observation, then connects them to the kata and the partner.
Understand the techniques
Positions: support, direction and mobility
A position organizes the feet, the center of the body and an action; it is not just a silhouette.
Understand the techniques
Uke: receive and deflect
Uke is often translated as blocking, but its study can include reception, deviation and line control.
Understand the techniques
Tsuki and uchi: keystroke families
The names distinguish paths, surfaces and relationships with supports.
Understand the techniques
Geri: trajectories, support and return
A kick includes preparation, action, organization of support and return.
Understand the techniques
Maai, timing and initiative
The distance and moment of action change the function of a technique.
Understand the techniques
Bunkai: analyze a kata
The bunkai links a memorized sequence to questions of distance, contact and decision.
Study and progress
Embusen, rhythm, kime and zanshin
A kata organizes space, time and attention beyond the order of gestures.
Grades, competition and Belgium
Kyu, dan and exams
A grade recognizes a step within a defined framework; it does not sum up all the skill of a practitioner.
Grades, competition and Belgium
Competition and arbitration
The competition compares performances in a regulated situation, distinct from martial practice as a whole.
Grades, competition and Belgium
Karate in Belgium
Affiliations, technical schools and clubs fulfill different roles in Belgian practice.
Study and progress
Organize sustainable progress
Observing, correcting and verifying gives a simple structure to personal work.
Compare disciplines
Karate versus other martial arts
The disciplines differ in their tools, their distances and their rules. No honest comparison points to a universal winner.
Culture and principles
The twenty precepts: a practical reading
These original commentaries present the themes of the principles associated with Funakoshi, without reproducing a published translation.
Compare disciplines
Shotokan and Judo
Compare objectives, distances and practice framework.
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Shotokan and Boxing
Compare objectives, distances and practice framework.
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Shotokan and Taekwondo
Compare objectives, distances and practice framework.
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Shotokan and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu
Compare objectives, distances and practice framework.
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Shotokan and Aikido
Compare objectives, distances and practice framework.
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Shotokan and Muay-thai and kickboxing
Compare objectives, distances and practice framework.
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Shotokan and Wrestling and MMA
Compare objectives, distances and practice framework.
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Shotokan and Chinese Martial Arts
Compare objectives, distances and practice framework.
The 26 kata
Heian Shodan
Heian Shodan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Heian Nidan
Heian Nidan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Heian Sandan
Heian Sandan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Heian Yondan
Heian Yondan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Heian Godan
Heian Godan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Tekki Shodan
Tekki Shodan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Tekki Nidan
Tekki Nidan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Tekki Sandan
Tekki Sandan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Bassai Dai
Bassai Dai study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Bassai Sho
Bassai Sho study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Kanku Dai
Kanku Dai study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Kanku Sho
Kanku Sho study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Empi
Empi study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Jion
Jion study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Jiin
Jiin study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Jitte
Jitte study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Hangetsu
Hangetsu study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Gankaku
Gankaku study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Sochin
Sochin study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Nijushiho
Nijushiho study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Chinte
Chinte study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Meikyo
Meikyo study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Unsu
Unsu study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Wankan
Wankan study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Gojushiho Dai
Gojushiho Dai study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
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Gojushiho Sho
Gojushiho Sho study sheet: objectives, observations and links with other forms.
Culture and principles
Japanese vocabulary: writing and pronunciation
Kanji, kana and romanization allow you to recognize dojo words without confusing writing and translation.
Study and progress
Outfit, protection and maintenance: prepare your bag
Choose equipment suitable for the course, check it and keep it clean without confusing dojo equipment with the requirements of a tournament.
DiscoverCulture and principles
First lesson: finding your place at the dojo
Understand the guidelines for a session, dare to ask a question and practice with others from the start.
DiscoverUnderstand the techniques
Breathing, relaxation and kime
Distinguish an organized action from permanent tension and maintain the possibility of continuing.
Go deeperUnderstand the techniques
Hips and coordination: connecting the supports to the hands
Observe the connections of the movement without reducing each technique to a large rotation of the pelvis.
Go deeperUnderstand the techniques
Hikite: understand the role of both hands
Observe the returning hand, its relationship to the main gesture and the differences between basic exercise and situation with partner.
Go deeperUnderstand the techniques
Moves and pivots: making a successful transition
Follow the path of the supports, prepare a new direction and find an available position.
DiscoverUnderstand the techniques
Guard, gaze and zanshin: remain available
Maintain useful attention before, during and after the action, without confusing vigilance and stiffness.
Go deeperStudy and progress
The forms of kumite: from the conventional to the freest
Understand what each work environment changes and why more freedom requires more control.
Go deeperStudy and progress
Work in pairs: create clear instructions
Define a common task, regulate cooperation and exchange useful feedback without transforming each repetition into a confrontation.
DiscoverStudy and progress
Common errors: observe before correcting
Transform a general impression into a describable defect and check if a correction really improves the passage.
DiscoverStudy and progress
Memorize a kata: create useful markers
Learn directions and transitions in stages, then find the sequence without constantly depending on a model.
DiscoverStudy and progress
Kata as a team: sharing the rhythm without losing technique
Build common benchmarks, observe transitions and distinguish visible synchronization and individual quality.
Study and transmitStudy and progress
Tokui kata: choose a form to explore further
Construct a study followed by a kata adapted to your level, without reducing the choice to its spectacular appearance.
Study and transmitStudy and progress
Children: learn through clear tasks
Give an educational role to the games, adjust the instructions and make progress observable without copying the adult course.
DiscoverStudy and progress
Parents: accompany without training instead of the dojo
Support autonomy, understand the objectives of the course and communicate with the teacher without multiplying competing instructions.
DiscoverStudy and progress
Return to karate: adjust your benchmarks
Come back after an interruption, recognize old habits and organize a suitable recovery with the teacher.
DiscoverStudy and progress
Observe a video: prepare a question, not copy an authority
Read a viewing angle, identify the version demonstrated and use the image to improve a discussion in the dojo.
Go deeperCulture and principles
Transmit to the dojo: demonstrate, observe, adjust
Clarify the roles of a teacher or an assistant and construct feedback that is understandable for the practitioner.
Study and transmitHistory and currents
Sources, variants and stories: reading karate methodically
Distinguish between document, interpretation and transmitted story to compare the versions without inventing a certain origin.
Go deeperStudy and progress
A short and targeted personal session
Give a concrete structure to individual work, prepare the space and report a useful observation to the next class.
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