{"id":237,"date":"2007-02-22T01:09:40","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2007-02-22T01:09:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T01:09:40","slug":"okinawan-karate-and-kobudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/karate-and-kobudo\/okinawan-karate-and-kobudo","title":{"rendered":"Okinawan Karate and Kobudo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/KarateKobudo\/KarateKobudo438.jpg\" align=\"left\" title=\"Okinawa Karate\" alt=\"Okinawa Karate\"\/>Okinawa is known as the birthplace of Karate. <font class=\"fb9\">While karate means &quot;empty hand&quot;, kobudo is the practice of using classical weapons such as bo (staff), sai (short trident), tonfa (handled club), kama (sickle), and nunchaku.<br \/>\nTh lineage of Okinawa Karate includes a number of schools including Naha-te, Shuri-te, and Tomari-te and various styles including Shorin-ryu, Goju-ryu, and Uechi-ryu.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okinawa-karate.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Okinawa Karatedo Kobudo Support Center <\/a>is the Okinawa based non-profit organization. They publish a monthly newsletter and are very helpful to people who want to visit Okinawa to train.<\/p>\n<p>Okinawa.com has a list of karate web sites under the <a href=\"http:\/\/okinawa.com\/component\/option,com_weblinks\/catid,23\/Itemid,23\/\">Links section<\/a>. <br \/>\nIf you have a web site about Okinawan Karate you can contact us to submit a link.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the 2007 22nd Okinawa Prefecture Karate Kobudo Enbu Taikai can be viewed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/okinawa.com\/component\/option,com_zoom\/Itemid,80\/catid,10\/lang,en\/\">Photo Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are visiting Okinawa to do karate training, you should visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.karatedo.co.jp\/shureido\/english\/e_index.html\">Shureido <\/a>martial arts supply store in Naha. The equipment is expensive but it&#8217;s the best.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okinawa is known as the birthplace of Karate. While karate means &quot;empty hand&quot;, kobudo is the practice of using classical weapons such as bo (staff), sai (short trident), tonfa (handled club), kama (sickle), and nunchaku. Th lineage of Okinawa Karate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/karate-and-kobudo\/okinawan-karate-and-kobudo\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karate-and-kobudo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}