Posted Mar 7th 2007, 4:57pm

How karate became real

All I can remember from researching about karate during 2001 was that India's bhodhidharma (person's name) travelled to China to teach buddhism (on a particular shaolin temple grounds)which included martial arts, then the Chinese traded their knowledge to the Japanese. After that there were many kinds of kempo (Chinese martial arts) in Japan - but they were kept secret to most people in Japan. Eventually, Gichin Funakoshi was taught Shuri and Naha te(hand - or the region's kempo style) and combined these techniques and called this new style - karate.