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Friday, October 11, 2013

Sekadar Luahan - Karate: Tradisional dan Moden

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Assalamualaikum.....

Kes panas dan memanaskan...

Hmmm.... bagaimana mahu mulakannya? Nak mula dari mana? Apa kata mulakannya dengan membaca kembali dan memahaminya daripada sejarah bagaimana ia bermula? Ini hanyalah petikan daripada beberapa artikel bagi melihat serba sedikit perbezaan antara karate yang tradisional dan moden. Tiada pembohongan melainkan yang betul sahaja (hehehe....). Bagi penulis dan sebagaimana yang pernah dicoretkan sebelum ini, banyak seni beladiri yang dipratikkan masa kini telah diSUKANkan dan telah lari daripada apa yang asalnya. Yang tradisional mengajar mengenai kaedah mempertahankan diri dalam pelbagai keadaan apabila berlaku dalam dunia nyata sama ada di jalanan ataupun di rumah. Sama ada dengan tangan kosong ataupun dengan senjata. Kenyataan ini adalah secara umum bagi memudahkan sedikit pemahaman, selebihnya kenalah pergi belajar dengan tok gurunya dalam kelas. Kalau sesiapa ada sumber rujukan yang lebih sahih mengenai seni ini yang tradisional, sila boleh berikan rujukan berkenaan untuk dibaca. Dalam ilmu yang tradisional, pelajar akan belajar bukan setakat tumbuk dan tendang, juga belajar teknik menjatuhkan lawan, grappling, kilasan dan banyak lagi termasuk dengan senjata, juga tiada had dalam peraturan penggunaannya ketika di luar gelanggang sama ada ia akan menyebabkan pemangsa/mangsa cedera, berdarah, patah atau kehilangan nyawa. Itulah hakikat di dunia nyata. Sedangkan versi moden atau yang telah diSUKANkan ini dikembangkan ketika sudah masuk ke era moden dan hanya bertumpu pada sedikit sahaja teknik yang boleh digunakan dalam gelanggang pertandingan. Boleh jadi langsung tidak boleh digunakan dalam perlawanan sebenar di atas jalan raya. Jadi, di mana pembohongannya? Anda boleh baca kenyataan seorang rakan di FB:



Di sini penulis petik sedikit tulisan untuk tatapan yang perlu tahu dan masih keliru tentang sejarah dan perbezaan antara yang tradisional dan moden. Sila baca hingga habis, dan kalau ingin tahu selebihnya silalah ke pautan yang disediakan.

Karate is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed partially from the indigenous martial arts of Ryukyu Islands called Te (literally "hand"; Tii in Okinawan) and from Chinese kenpo. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee strikes, elbow strikes and open hand techniques such as knife-hands, spear-hands,and palm-heel strikes. In some styles, grappling, throws, joint locks, restraints, and vital point strikes are also taught. A karate practitioner is called a karateka.

Karate was developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom and was systematically taught in Japan after the Taisho era. It was brought to the Japanese mainland in the early 20th century during a time of cultural exchanges between the Japanese and the Ryukyuans. In 1922 the Japanese Ministry of Education invited Gichin Funakoshi to Tokyo to give a karate demonstration. In 1924 Keio University established the first university karate club in Japan and by 1932, major Japanese universities had karate clubs. In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from "Chinese hand" or "Tang hand" verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa to "empty hand", both of which are pronounced karate to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style. After the Second World War, Okinawa became an important United States military site and karate became popular among servicemen stationed there.


Karate began as a common fighting system known as te (Okinawan: ti) among the Pechin class of the Ryukyuans. After trade relationships were established with the Ming dynasty of China by King Satto of Chuzan in 1372, some forms of Chinese martial arts were introduced to the Ryukyu Islands by the visitors from China, particularly Fujian Province. A large group of Chinese families moved to Okinawa around 1392 for the purpose of cultural exchange, where they established the community of Kumemura and shared their knowledge of a wide variety of Chinese arts and sciences, including the Chinese martial arts. The political centralization of Okinawa by King Sho Hashi in 1429 and the policy of banning weapons, enforced in Okinawa after the invasion of the Shimazu clan in 1609, are also factors that furthered the development of unarmed combat techniques in Okinawa.

There were few formal styles of te, but rather many practitioners with their own methods. One surviving example is the Motobu-ryu school passed down from the Motobu family by Seikichi Uehara. Early styles of karate are often generalized as Shuri-te, Naha-te, and Tomari-te, named after the three cities from which they emerged. Each area and its teachers had particular kata, techniques, and principles that distinguished their local version of te from the others.


Members of the Okinawan upper classes were sent to China regularly to study various political and practical disciplines. The incorporation of empty-handed Chinese Kung Fu into Okinawan martial arts occurred partly because of these exchanges and partly because of growing legal restrictions on the use of weaponry. Traditional karate kata bear a strong resemblance to the forms found in Fujian martial arts such as Fujian White Crane, Five Ancestors, and Gangrou-quan (Hard Soft Fist; pronounced "Gojuken" in Japanese).  Many Okinawan weapons such as the sai, tonfa, and nunchaku may have originated in and around Southeast Asia.

Karate can be practiced as an art (budo), as a sport, as a combat sport, or as self defense training. Traditional karate places emphasis on self-development (budo). Modern Japanese style training emphasizes the psychological elements incorporated into a proper kokoro (attitude) such as perseverance, fearlessness, virtue, and leadership skills. Sport karate places emphasis on exercise and competition. Weapons is important training activity in some styles of karate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate)

Modern karate originated in Okinawa, formerly known as the Ryukyu Kingdom, but now a part of present-day Japan. Karate is a fusion of pre-existing Okinawan martial arts, called "te", and Chinese martial arts. It is an art that has been adopted and developed by practitioners on the Japanese main island of Honshu.

Karate's route to Honshu began with Gichin Funakoshi, who is called the father of modern karate, and is the founder of Shotokan karate. Although some Okinawan karate practitioners were already living and teaching in Honshu, Funakoshi gave public demonstrations of karate in Tokyo at a physical education exhibition sponsored by the ministry of education in 1917, and again in 1922. As a result, karate training was subsequently incorporated into Japan's public school system. It was also at this time that the white uniforms and the kyu/dan ranking system (both originally implemented by judo's founder, Kano Jigoro) were adopted.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_martial_arts)




p/s: Mana lebih baik, pukul dengan tangan atau pukul dengan ilmu?

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