{"id":7006,"date":"2016-03-23T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2016-10-29T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T14:25:10","slug":"white-crane-kung-fu-the-roots-of-kyokushin-karate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/white-crane-kung-fu-the-roots-of-kyokushin-karate\/","title":{"rendered":"White Crane Kung-fu the roots of Kyokushin Karate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/masoyama.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5559\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5559\" src=\"http:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/masoyama-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"masoyama\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/masoyama-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/masoyama-100x145.jpg 100w, https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/masoyama.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019re as passionate about Kyokushin as me, and have looked into the history, you know that Kyokushin is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese <strong>Masutatsu (Mas) Oyama<\/strong>. Sosai Mas Oyama was a 4th Dan Black Belt in Shotokan and a 7th Dan Black Belt in G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b Karate. Combining his knowledge and adding his own elements he created Kyokushin Karate.<\/p>\n<p>So, Kyokushin is grounded in the Okinawan Shuri-te traditions (Shotokan) as well as the hard and soft characteristics of the Naha-te and Tomari-te style (Goju-ryu). Many kata from both styles are found in Kyokushin. However, this isn\u2019t the beginning. Goju-ryu itself trances its roots back to China and most martial scholars believe the main influence was White Crane Boxing in Fujian province, China.<\/p>\n<p>Though the local boxing style originated from Southern Shaolin, it has since spread its influence to Taiwan, Ryukyu (Okinawa) and mainland Japan, where it became Karate.<\/p>\n<p>The following documentary traces the roots of this, which is hosted by <strong>Stephen Au Kam-tong<\/strong>, a black belt in full-contact Karate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"742\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYMAniAhxlI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>OSU!<\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re as passionate about Kyokushin as me, and have looked into the history, you know that Kyokushin is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese Masutatsu (Mas) Oyama. Sosai Mas Oyama was a 4th Dan Black Belt in Shotokan and a 7th Dan Black Belt in G\u014dj\u016b-ry\u016b Karate. Combining his knowledge and adding his &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/white-crane-kung-fu-the-roots-of-kyokushin-karate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-martial-way.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}