WUKO Vs. IAKS (ITKF), The Battle For Olympic Recognition THE BATTLE FOR olympic karate RECOGNITION. WUKO vs. IAKF A brief review of the post World War II history of karate politics in Japan might prove http://www.shotokai.com/ingles/interviews/wuko.html
Extractions: Shotokai Encyclopedia on Karate-do and Japanese Martial Arts THE BATTLE FOR OLYMPIC KARATE RECOGNITION WUKO vs. IAKF by Jon K. Evans, Ph.D. Black Belt Magazine, Feb 1988 Although most of the Western karate world is unaware of it, there is a considerable schism in "shotokan" karate. There is good reason to believe it was this division that led to the long and bitter rivalry between the World Union of Karate-do Organizations (WUKO) and the now-defunct International Amateur Karate Federation (IAKF) for International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition as the international governing body for amateur karate and the right to oversee all karate competitions at future Olympic Games. In Japan, the different approaches to Gichin Funakoshi's popular style are [ed: were!] represented by, on the one hand, the Japan Karate Association (JKA) and, on the other, the All-Japan University Karate League. Internationally, JKA shotokan is represented by its affiliated organizations in various countries, as well as instructors originally aligned with the JKA who have since formed their own international organizations (like Hirokazu Kanazawa in Great Britain and his Shotokan Karate International), and national groups that have disassociated themselves from their original instructors but still consider themselves to be practicing JKA shotokan (like the American JKA, led by Randall Hassell and Ray Dalke). Internationally, the University style is represented by university-trained instructors who don't subscribe to the JKA's canon of shotokan. A good example is the loosely affiliated association of national organizations in America, Israel, France, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, Gabon, Germany, Holland, Canada, and Curacao, each of which calls itself France Shotokan, Swiss Shotokan, Israel Shotokan, etc. This group practices shotokan karate as interpreted and taught by Tsutomu Ohshima of Los Angeles, whom they regard as their chief instructor.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - NEWS The members made history by voting for change for the first time in almost 70 years. Vote on the Inclusion of karate on Rule 46 of the olympic Charter http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/events/117_session/full_story_uk.asp?id=1437
History Of The Martial Arts Articles Judo, a relatively new martial art, is a part of the olympic Games. The life and history of Gichin Funakoshi, who brought Okinawan karate to Japan and http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/history_of_the_martial_arts
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THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE YUGOSLAV KARATE UNION history of karate The International olympic Committee has acknowledged this World karate Organization. THE MORAL KODEX OF karate http://www.yku.org.yu/english/history.htm
Extractions: History of Karate KARATE ORIGINS Masters of Okinawa (Japanese rulers) were overwhelmed with Karate, so they demanded that Okinawa Karate Masters demonstrate their skills in public. For that purpose, the famous teacher of Karate, Gicin Funakosi, was assigned. He had shown an enormous talent practicing Karate with two great teachers. The demonstrations were very successful, so Gicin Funakosi promoted Karate in Japan, as well. First famous center for training Karate (Martial Art) was found in Japan and named SHOTO-KAN center. It is interesting to mention that Funakosi taught a few talented pupils, who developed their own styles, later on. Other Okinawa teachers came to Japan and founded their own styles, too. That happened around 1930. Today there are many different ways of practicing and the most familiar are: SHOTOKAN
Extractions: karate began somewhere in the distant past with elements of unarmed fighting methods from China and Japan coming together to be shaped by the unique culture and people of a small group of islands known as Okinawa. Situated geographically and sociologically at the halfway point between two great cultures, Okinawans developed a strong fighting spirit, which allowed them to exist for centuries as a culture distinct from their stronger neighbors. During the 17th and early 18th centuries, first under its own central rulers and then later under clans from the main islands of Japan, a small ruling elite outlawed the possession of weapons by the general population. The secret study of weaponless fighting, or te as it was called, became one of the only means native Okinawans had to protect themselves from heavily armed warriors and brigands. It was during this time that Okinawans put their own stamp on unarmed fighting methods by emphasizing the use of the natural physics of the body and connection to mother earth to achieve high levels of power. Early practitioners spent a lifetime developing and organizing the technical skills needed to perfect elements of various foreign and native weaponless fighting schools. As time went by, the need and therefore the emphasis on fighting for purely reasons of self-preservation began to diminish. At the same time, practitioners of this pure fighting method began to recognize that many aspects of native religious and philosophical beliefs primarily from Buddhism and Taoism provided unarmed warriors with a level of mental peace and disconnection from worldly concerns needed to enhance chances for success during combat. Practitioners of unarmed martial arts realized too that the focused application of the art itself led the warrior to a greater level of self-awareness and inner peace. This melding of the outer, physical and inner, mental elements is what defines eastern martial arts.
NIU Tae Kwon Do Club At that time, Taekwondo was merely a Korean version of Shotokan karate. In 1980, WTF Taekwondo was recognized by the International olympic Committee http://www.stuaff.niu.edu/rs/taekwondo/history.html
Extractions: The earliest records of Martial Arts practice in Korea date back to about 50 B.C. These earliest forms are known as 'Taek Kyon'. Evidence that Martial Arts were being practiced at that time can be found in tombs where wall paintings show two men in fighting stance. Others reject this evidence and say that these men could be dancing as well. Back then, time there were three kingdoms: 3. Silla (57 B.C. - 936 A.D.) Silla unified the kingdoms after winning the war against Paekje in 668 A.D. and Koguryo in 670 A.D. The Hwa Rang Do played an important role at this unification. The Hwa Rang Do was an elite group of young noble men, devoted to cultivating mind and body and serve the kingdom Silla. The best translation for HwaRang is "flowering youth" (Hwa ="flower", Rang="young man"). The HwaRang Do had an honored and practiced various forms of martial arts, including Taekyon and Soo Bakh Do. The old honored of the HwaRang is the philosophical background of modern Taekwondo. What followed was a time of peace and the HwaRang turned from a military organization to a group specialized in poetry and music. It was in 936 A.D. when Wang Kon founded the Koryo dynasty, an abbreviation of Koguryo. The name Korea is derived from the name Koryo.
Extractions: From The American Black Belt Society ALSO SEE THE HISTORY OF JUDO IN AMERICA THE HISTORY OF KARATE IN AMERICA Kung-fu arrived in the U.S. with the first Chinese immigrants in the mid-19th century, but the growth of karate is largely owed to contact between American servicemen and Japanese experts during the post-World War II occupation of Japan and Okinawa. Kung-fu: the Forerunner of Karate Kung-fu was a part of the Chinese lifestyle in the labo camps and mining towns that grew up following the gold rush of 1848. With the importation of large numbers of Chinese laborers to work on the Central Pacific Railroad, beginning in 1863, the swelling Chinese communities isolated themselves within their own, transplanted culture. Conflicts over control of gambling, prostitution, and the like, arose; rival secret societies fought each other in the notorious "Tong Wars," which lasted until the 1930s. The troops in these internecine wars were "hatchetmen," so-called because they used meat cleavers and hatchets as weapons. They were skilled also in kung-fu, in the art of "pin-blowing," and in hurling lethal, razor-edged coins. Hatchetmen in the U.S. handed down, from one generation to the next, the secret and sinister practice of kung-fu, the forbearer of modern karate.
Extractions: by Robert W. Young The first fighting systems on earth probably evolved alongside human beings because mankind must have always had a need to defend himself against animals, not to mention against his fellow creature. Ancient murals and sculptures show fighting poses from Egypt, India and Babylon dating from as far back as 5,000 years ago. The martial arts as we know them probably did not evolve until systems of offensive and defensive skills were devised in or imported into China. There, in a country saturated with the spiritual teachings of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, these fighting skills were combined with intangible elements such as compassion, discipline and self-control. Through various periods in history when weapons were outlawed, the martial arts prospered as the only means for a person to defend himself and his family. But even as more civilized times descended upon humanity, the arts survived. They managed to outlive their violent origins primarily because they teach much more than fighting. The true martial arts stress character development, discipline and respect. Self-defense, physical fitness and competition are some of the other benefits which modern practitioners enjoy.
History Of Martial Arts karate Judo - Kendo - Jujutsu. Philipino Martial Arts - Escrima Judo was included in olympic Games competition for the first time at Tokyo in 1964 and http://www.allmartialarts.com/KIXCO/History/judo.htm
UTMA HISTORY OF SHINGITAI During his tenure as coach of the olympic Training Center, Konishi s Shindo Ryu was a system of karatejutsu as Konishi had studied under Gichen http://web.utk.edu/~utmaclub/jjhistory.html
Extractions: John Saylor, in the 1980's, was the Head Judo Coach at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He arrived at this prestigious position in 1983 by virtue of his success as an athlete in competitive judo. Saylor had won the U.S. Heavyweight Championship three times and was a Pan American silver medalist. He had recently retired from the sport of judo after a serious shoulder injury sustained in the 1982 U.S. Judo National Championships. During his tenure as coach of the Olympic Training Center, John Saylor was exposed to some of the best judo technicians in the world. The leading judo teams from Asia, Europe and the Americas visited the Olympic Training Center regularly and John Saylor wasted no effort in observing their training methods and discussing judo technique with the world's top judo athletes and coaches. Not only did he work with the top judo people, Saylor worked closely with some of the top strength and conditioning coaches in the world who coached and did research at the Olympic Research Center or were visiting form other nations. John Saylor built on his already considerable strong base of grappling knowledge by this experience at the Olympic Training Center. He served as the coach from 1983 until 1991. However, before he left his position at the Olympic Training Center, Saylor began a more thorough and extensive study of "martial arts".
News Record Weekender Health Though many people have come to associate karate with Japan, the history of karate in the He continued his relationship with the olympic committee, http://www.gatewaynewspapers.com/newsrecordweekender/health/43045/
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Olympics Team USA karate Pankration World Champions Matt Barrett s Athens 2004 olympics Index to The olympics Hickock Sports. olympic history http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/issues/olympics.htm
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History Of Tae Kwon Do During the 1960s, many Korean karate masters left to form Tae Kwon Do organizations outside of Korea. Tae Kwon Do Becomes an olympic Sport http://www.gbgm-umc.org/otterbeinumc-wv/karatehistory.htm
Extractions: The first formalized martial arts school in Korea was founded in 1944 in Seoul, by a man named Lee, Won Kook. Master Lee founded not only the first, but also the largest and most influential martial arts school in Korea. Born in Korea on April 18, 1907, Lee moved to Japan in 1926 at the age of nineteen. Lee was then trained in "Shotokan" karate with the founder and legendary teacher, the great Grandmaster Gichen Funakoshi. Lee came back to Korea in 1944, just before the end of World War II. He felt that training in Karate-do, "the empty hand," would benefit the Korean people. Korea was still under Japanese occupation. In order for Master Lee to obtain permission to start a martial arts school in Korea, he had to make an application to the Japanese government. The application was rejected twice, but Lee received permission on his third try. Master Lee began teaching Tang Soo Do ("Empty Hand") in Seoul. In Japan, Grandmaster Funakoshi had changed the letter representing the name of his school from "Chinese Hand Art" to "the Empty Hand." By changing the name, Funakoshi was able to make his introduction of the martial art more palatable to the Japanese. Who Kept the Academy Alive?
Karate Universe: History At karate Universe it is your option to participate in full contact sparring In 1980 Tae Kwon Do was introduced to the International olympic Committee http://www.karateuniverse.com/history.html
Extractions: Tae Kwon Do literally means "the way of kicking and punching" (Tae = 'To kick', Kwon = 'to punch' and Do = 'art, or the way'). Its techniques were devleoped and perfected over many centuries out of the basic need for protection against enemy attacks. Humankind's most basic instinct is that of survival, and at a time when no other means of defense existed, bare hands skills were the difference between life and death. As human-kind developed tools, weapons were also developed (many based on farm tools), but even then people devoted themselves to developing physical strength and skills. Tae Kwon Do developed from this basic need of survival into a complete system of self-defense and personal improvement whose sharp strong angular movements combined with smooth circular movements produce a balance of beauty and power. Is TaeKwonDo dangerous?
KARATE BC It is the first time in the history of the awards that a karate person Do you think karate should be one of the sports included in the olympic Games?. http://216.232.47.236/newsletter/eNews/eNews0304.html
History Of Success Individual karate Gold, 2002;. Individual Superheavyweight Boxing Gold in 2002 Alan Pascoe, MBE, European and Commonwealth gold medallist and olympic http://www.brunel.ac.uk/life/sport/elitesport/success/
Extractions: Brunel Home ... Elite Sport Brunel is one of the UK's top institutions not only as an academic centre of excellence in the study of sport sciences, but also in the achievements of its students. This is illustrated by the number of graduates, students and staff across the University who have represented their country at the Olympic Games, World Championships and other international competitions as competitors and coaches and by the many individuals who have achieved international standing in their chosen sport. Brunel encourages students to play sport from recreational level through to elite level. You can judge the overall strength of our students from their record in the British Universities Championships: Seven teams in BUSA Premier leagues and a further 11 in the First Division; Men's Rugby Union Champions in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2002; Men's Hockey Champions in 1996, 1997 and 1998; Men's Indoor Athletics Champions in 1998 and 1999, and Overall runners-up Outdoors in 1998 and 1999; Trampolining Team Gold in 2003 and 2004;
Greek Martial Art Mythology, History & Mythology BrandX pankration groups appear claiming to represent the olympic movement. okinawan karate more than anything pertaining to the Grecian martial arts http://www.mutau.net/sites/mythhistphil/history/timeline/
Extractions: famed feats of Iraklis. 702 B.C. Pankration is now practiced and athletic events are conducted in nearly all of the Greek cities and colonies throughout the Mediterranean. 648 B.C. Pankration is officially entered in the 33rd Olympic Games as one of the "heavy" events. The rules prohibit biting and gouging one's opponent. The Spartans and many of the other Doric city states, especially in Crete, bar their athletes from competing in this event as it is too restrictive compared to their own version of the sport. These same city states continue to hold no-rules Pankration events as well as group competitions in their own local festivals. 564 B.C.
MHSchool: Opera, Karate, And Bandits By Huynh Quang Nhuong This Web site, developed and maintained by the United States olympic Committee, including history and rules, about various sports in the olympic family. http://www.mhschool.com/reading/2005/teacher/teachres/tes/activity.php3?story=20
Fightnews.com Ultimate Fighting Ultimate Fighting Championship history From Spectacle to Sport champions of various martial arts and olympic sports, such as karate, jiujitsu, boxing, http://www.ufcfightnews.com/ufc/history.html
