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2. Shotokan - Wikipedia

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   Shotokan (松涛館, Shōtōkan) is a style of karate, developed from various martial arts by Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957) and his son Gigo (Yoshitaka) Funakoshi (1906–1945). Gichin Funakoshi was born in Okinawa [1] and is widely credited with popularizing "karate do" through a series of public demonstrations, and by promoting the ...

3. Karate - Wikipedia

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   2020. World Games. 1981 – present. Karate (空手) (/ kəˈrɑːti /; Japanese pronunciation: [kaɾate] ⓘ; Okinawan pronunciation: [kaɽati]), also karate-do (空手道, Karate-dō), is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called te (手), "hand"; tī in Okinawan) under the ...

4. Uechi-Ryū - Wikipedia

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   Uechi-Ryū (上地流, Uechi-Ryū) is a traditional style of Okinawan karate.Uechi-Ryū means "Style of Uechi" or "School of Uechi". Originally called Pangai-noon, which translates to English as "half-hard, half-soft", the style was renamed Uechi-Ryū after the founder of the style, Kanbun Uechi, [1] an Okinawan who went to Fuzhou in Fujian Province, China to study martial arts and Chinese ...

5. Kickboxing - Wikipedia

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   Kickboxing. Kickboxing (/ ˈkɪkbɒksɪŋ / KIK-boks-ing) is a full-contact hybrid martial art and boxing type based on punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in the 1950s to 1970s. [2] The fight takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouth guards, shorts, and bare feet to favor the use of kicks.

6. Kung fu shoe - Wikipedia

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   Kung fu shoe. The kung fu shoe, also known as a " tai chi shoe" or as a " martial arts slipper", is a type and style of cloth slip-on shoe that is traditionally made in China, and was originally worn while practicing kung fu and other martial arts, and also while performing tai chi. [1] Variants of this shoe are now mass-produced for general ...

7. Wushu (sport) - Wikipedia

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   Wushu (traditional Chinese: 武術; simplified Chinese: 武术; pinyin: wǔshù) (/ ˌwuːˈʃuː /), or kung fu, is a competitive Chinese martial art. It integrates concepts and forms from various traditional and modern Chinese martial arts, including Shaolin kung fu, tai chi, and Wudangquan. [1] ". Wushu" is the Chinese term for "martial arts ...