History of Karate:
Karate is an "Empty hand ways". First it was called "chinease hand". It was founded by Bodhidharma who went China from India to preach zen budhism during 5th century. In order to search food sometimes man fought with others. In this situation it was happened to get wound at weak points. Sometimes it lead man to death. Upon this strategy Bodhidharma found some self defence technics. He introduced 18 excercises to his monks, Because he felt that they were physically weak. He also taught some self defence technics to them. For the self defence, Some of the military leaders and politicians also learned this technics from Bodhidharma.Step by step iit was molded as a fighting system.
When Japan and China trade relationship, a few chinease went Japan. These chinease, those who know about this fighting system introduced it to Japanease in okinawa in Ryu kyu islands. In 1392 a group of 36 Chinease familiese shifted to Japan for cultural exchange. These, they taught fighting technics and local technics also added to it. After some days okinawa followed separate technics in this fighting system.
That time, It was called "te" and "to-te" and then it termed as karate. "Te" means "hands", "to-te" means "chinease hand", "karate" means "empty hand ways". Karate got considerable dignity in this place like Naha-te, shuri-te, tomari-te. These villages followed their own style with new rules and taught katas and fight. Ankoh azato(1827-1906) and Ankoh itosu(1831-1915) did well the styles of Naha-te and Shuri-te. In the school of Ankoh azato and Ankoh itosu, the top expert practisonar like Gichin funakoshi, Kenwa mabuni, Cochin motobu, Kanbun uchi. Ankoh itosu is the father of modern karate. He only found the terms like "hian" or "pinan". Gichin funakoshi joined with Ankoh itosu and some top students started the karate club by the name of "Shotokan". Gichin funakoshi lived in the period 1868-1957. In 1949, Japan karate association was started Gichin funakoshi was the Chief instructor in this association. Then color belts system was also introduced. Finally the art spread all over the world. Every country follow separate style because of their addition local technics. When gichin funakoshi was developing karate, Chojun miagi introduced Goju-ryu style, kanbun uchi introduced uchi ryu style, Kenwa mabuni introduced Shito-ryu style. It is notable one. In the shito-ryu style, fumio demura was the main reason for the popularising the shito-ryu style to all the part of the world.
Kenwa mabuni(1889 - 1952) - Founder of Shito ryu karate
Kenwa mabuni was born on november 14, 1889 at okinawa, shuri in japan. Kenwa mabuni was descendant of the famous onikusukuni samurai family. To improve his week body, he joined under the legend master ankoh itosu acadamy and started to learn the art of shuri-te at the age 13. He learned this art with so much interest. After seeing this interest, his close friend Chojun Miyagi introduced him to master Higaonna kanryo who teach the art of naha-te. Kenwa mabuni became expert in this art also. Also he studied from Seisho aragaki and some instructors. He introduced new style of karate namely Shito ryu at 1915. In 1918, Kenwa mabuni was important figure in martial arts field. Then he worked as a police man after complete his higher studies. In 1929, he shifted to osaka permanently an became full time karate instructor. His style originally called Hanko ryu or "Half hard style". He published so many books about the developing style Shito ryu. Then he teached the developed art to police mans. It was teached in schools and colleges after the second world war, with redeveloped karate. Then his new kind of martial art spread all over the japan. The great master died on may 23, 1952.
Shine ryu karate:
Dai sensei DR.Moses thilak popularised karate in india. He studied from malasia master Sensei Stephen who studied from master kenei mabuni. Mabuni kenei is the son of Kenwa mabuni. He designated master of the Shito ryu karate, After the master kenwa mabuni died. Dai sensei Soshikan DR.moses thilak was appointed as a main representative of shito-ryu style in india by the master Keni mabuni. My master I.Jebaraj rajkumar learned karate from master Joseph besmin in nazareth branch - Alan thilak shito ryu style. For few years, He has done his best job as a instructor in this style. He has participated in many competitions and won many medols. He is the great master in our area. Then he created new style and started shine ryu karate school.
Each karate school has its own styles. Shine ryu has also its own style which is very easy to learn for all agegroups. In Shin ryu we have karate, nunchak, sylumbum etc. Shin ryu karate class was started by Sensai I. Jebaraj Rajakumar in 1992. Now it is going smoothly with some instructors.
Iam studied from Mr I.Jebaraj Avl when i was 13yrs old. I have completed black belt in 02-05-1999. Now I am handling some karate classes well. My Master who saw my perfomance provided me some classes to handle from my brown belt stage. He is a good administrator. Iam proud to say that he is my Master.
I took many karate classes in our area. Some is Sawyerpuram, Sebathaiyapuram, Tiruchendur, Thandupathu, Udangudi, Nazareth, Eral etc. Many students have got benefits from my karate classes. I don't say this proudly. This karate will be useful to your life. So try to learn karate. I mentioned some details of karate in this website. You can't study karate by seeing this website. But, everyone can understand about karate through this website. From the very first day my Master has started karate classes, Shine ryu karate school is shining in our area.
Shine ryu karate will provide belts to its students according to their performance. You can see the levels in belt given below.
1.White belt, 2.Yellow belt, 3. Orange belt, 4. Green 1st belt, 5.Green 2nd belt, 6.Brown 1st belt, 7.Brown 2nd belt, 8.Brown 3rd belt, 9.Black belt.
Belt exam will be conducted every four months.
If you learn karate regularly, you can get the black belt in four years of time. Learn karate from well organized institute and get benefits.
Be brave by learning!.
