Martial arts

Martial arts

A community portal about Martial arts with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. Today, martial arts are studied for various reasons... [more]

A community portal about Martial arts with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. Today, martial arts are studied for various reasons including combat skills, fitness, self-defense, sport, self-cultivation, mental discipline, character development and building self-confidence. A practitioner of martial arts is referred to as a martial artist.

About Wado Ryu Karate

Mon 11:36 PST. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
In 1934 Master Hironori Ohtsuka founded the traditional Japanese Karate style called Wado-Ryu Karate - which translates to "way of peace" or "way of harmony". Master Ohtsuka believed that "violent actions may be understood as the way of martial arts, but the true meaning of martial arts is to seek and attain the way of peace and harmony."

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