Karate America

Karate is the traditional discipline of unarmed self-protection, it literally means "way of empty hands." Traditional Karate uses mental focus and rigorous training to build physical skills such as speed, strength and agility . Training of the mind and body leads to benefits multiplied together unlike ordinary drill routines found in most fitness gyms.

Fitness and well-being: The practice of Karate improves flexibility, strength, coordination and endurance of the practitioner. Karate punches, pushing, kicking, blocks, sweeps and projections of training the whole body explosively active.

Stress relief: the stress in addition to reducing the benefits of any exercise, karate also higher attendance and knowledge of mental attitudes that can cause tension.

Confidence: If all physical exercises alleviate feelings of well-being, traditional karate focuses on building a persona, and centers on insurance Increasingly, awareness and persistence through repetitive physical exercises and mental health.

Self-Protection: Traditional Karate is the best martial art for self-protection that revolves around advocacy skills genuine sports-oriented methods found to be impractical and ineffective in real combat situations.

Physical benefits include:
Cardiovascular Exercise
Coordination
Flexibility
Pragmatic self-protection techniques
Stress Reduction
Aerobic and anaerobic exercise
Reflexes faster growth
Plyometric Explosion

Mental benefits include: discipline, perseverance, humility, responsibility, self-respect, insurance, awareness and insights.

What is Karate?
"Real Karate is this: that in the spirit of daily life and body be trained and conditioned in a spirit of humility, and that in the decisive moments, someone committed completely to the cause of justice. " Gichin Funakoshi -

Karate can thus be identified as a martial art or fighting method, calling for a mix of techniques, including blocks, strikes, evasions, throws, and joint manipulation. Karate training is divided into three aspects: kihon (basics), kata (forms) and kumite (sparring).

The word karate is a combination of two Japanese characters: kara, meaning empty, and te, meaning hand: well, Karate translates to "empty hand". The addition of the suffix "-ne" (sounded "Doe"), meaning "way", ie, karate-do, karate connotes is a complete way of life that goes beyond self-protection applications. In traditional karate-do, we always keep in mind that the true opponent is oneself.

Shotokan founder Gichin Funakoshi has said that the spirit "and expertise in karate more than real." We strive to make our reflections physical techniques perfect for our mind and better concentration of our mind by the realization of the essence of physical techniques. By refining our karate practice we refine our own spirit or our own mental capacity. For example, the suppression of weak passwords and indecisive in our karate aid to get rid of the weakness and indecision in our minds - and in the other direction.

It is in this sense that karate becomes a way of life, we strive to be very strong but happy and law-abiding people. As Tsutomu Ohshima, chief professor or shihan of Shotokan Karate of America, said, "We must be strong enough to express our minds to any opponent, anytime, under any condition. We must be calm enough to conduct ourselves with humility. "