Karate, yap (空手道) is a martial art born from Japan, it is protection and attack.

Karate, yap (空手道) is a martial art born from Japan, it is protection and attack.

At first, karate was like a system of hand-to-hand combat, it was invented only for self-defense. For today, karate has become famous throughout the world, thanks to demonstration performances. Experienced karate masters can split the palm ice, and with a kick of the foot, break down the pine wood, which is to be thickened - 15 cm, Head and elbow can break the stacks of roofing tiles. The breaking of different objects demonstrates only physical strength, this is not an indicator of the skill of karate. In karate, the degree of direct contact between wrestlers is minimal, and in order to lay the opponent on the floor, targeted powerful punches and kicks are applied to the vital points of his body. It was from the island of Okinawa that karate got to Japan. Okinawa was the kingdom of Ryukyu, which had connections with China and Japan. After the island of Ryukyu was conquered by samurai. Residents of the island of Okinawa fought against the Japanese and, in this regard, created the art of karate. Martial arts were practiced on the island, including the descendants of immigrants from China, and from settlers learned about karate the whole world. Karate is one of the sports for inclusion in the program of the Olympic Games. But pripyatsevie it turns out that this art presents a high level of injuries athletes.

Training is based on three main techniques:

• Kihon - basic equipment.
• Kumite - training in a pair. The blow is allowed by hands or feet on the head or in a body above the waist. After the Uudis evaluate the impact ,. And expose the evaluation: ippon, nihon, sambon.
• Kata - with the shadow. Movements are divided into attacking and defensive.

Kata elements:

• Bunkai - analysis, explanation of the kata;
• Oy - application;
• Hank - variations;
• Kakusi-stealth.

A student's degree - "kyu" and master's degrees - are "given". The number of kyu and dan is 10, but there is an exception. Kyu decreases with growth, but the number of dana increases. To differentiate the degree of mastery, they invented a belt, which differs in color.

To get a high degree you need to demonstrate the skill of doing kata and free fighting.

The name of the belt is obi.

Dark color has a high degree. The white belt - a low degree of skill, high - black.

The color of the belt gradually darkens from 10 kyu to the 1st dan. In this system with the color of dark. The yellow belt is higher than the blue.

The white color of the belt means the desire to learn and to learn art.

Orange - sunrise (10 and 9 kyu)

Blue - the sky at sunrise (8 and 7 kyu)

Yellow belt - the sun rose (6 and 5 kyu)

Green color - level of maturity (4 and 3 kyu)

Brown belt - creative level (2 and 1 kyu)

Black - wisdom (Dana)

The black belt burns away from the sun, as if striving to become white. As well as wisdom tends to the beginning - to what skill come with the years, lies at the very beginning of learning.

The system of our time:

White belt - 9 kyu, Yellow belt - 8 kyu, Orange color - 7 kyu, Green - 6 kyu, Light blue - 5 kyu, Blue - 4 kyu, Light brown - 3 kyu, Brown - 2 kyu, Dark brown - 1 kyu

Black - 1 dan. (10 dan is given posthumously)