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SKIF BELGIUM Shotokan Karate-dô International Belgian Federation

Welcome to the SKI-BF web site This site is meant for both karate practitioners and neophytes.

We wanted to offer a karate database as accurate as possible by having you progressing in a user-friendly environment, which is ideal for martial arts.

We advise you to subscribe to this site (subscription is free) in order to own a martial profile which can be viewed through Internet by other practitioners world-wide. We wish you already a pleasant visit. OSS! Senseï Hirokazu Kanazawa

Do you want to learn Karate? If so, why not join the SKI Federation (Shotokan Karate International). Created by Master Hirokazu Kanazawa, a student of the Master Gishin Funakoshi (…), the Federation is dedicated to teaching karate-do as it is done in Japan.

Numerous training courses are organized in Belgium and world-wide … as well as other activities.

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A sport AND an art , Karate is not only a competitive sport reserved for the strongest. It is above all an art in which the practitioner searches for the harmony between physical and mental health. Should you also want to go in for competition, we offer you all levels of tournaments, in fighting (the Kumite) or in ' technical demonstration ' (the Kata).

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The SKIF Federation was founded in 1977 by Hirokazu Kanazawa, one of the last direct students of the Shotokan movement's creator, Gichin Funakoshi.

Numerous countries have joined the traditional spirit of the Master and, over the years, the federation has attracted more and more member nations.

At present, more than a hundred countries belong to the senseï Kanazawa Movement. History Most martial arts, if not all, have one thing in common, they all result from a mixed Chinese and Indian culture.

We will now particularly linger over the art that is of interest to us, the Karate. Here is its history :

Around the 6th century, a monk, known under the name of Bodhidharma, set up in the Shaolin Temple in China. He decided to teach techniques based upon breathing and the harmony between the mind and the body, combined with techniques aiming at reinforcing the body physically. His objective was to teach monks how to protect themselves during their numerous and dangerous trips.

His discipline, based on harmony, influenced the various fighting forms.

After the legendary destruction of the Shaolin Temple, monks and fighting techniques dispersed throughout China. Hence, these techniques spread and evolved. Still today, we can read in some books about karate the name of SHAOLIN SU KEMPO that refers to their art.

Karate developed, notably around the 15th century, on the Okinawa Island, which most regular practitioners know at least by name.

It was indeed at that time that the Island fell under Chinese rule. This resulted in an enrichment of the local fighting art, the ' Te ', due to an increase in sales exchanges and the contact with foreign countries. As China prohibited the use of weapons on the island, inhabitants developed weaponless fighting techniques. It is by the way the practice of workers' tools that led to fighting techniques with weapons that we know today in their most up-to-date forms (e.g. : nunchaku).

This banning was not lifted, even after the Japanese came to power in the 17th century. At that time, teaching was made orally, i.e. without any educational support. Techniques were worked on and taught on the basis of katas. This gave birth to the Karate ancestor, the ' To De '.

Mainly three villages developed various styles of karate : Tomari, Shuri and Naha. They gave birth respectively to Tomari-Te, Shuri-Te and Naha-Te.

The teaching of Karate, practised in utmost secrecy, took another form around the 20th century thanks to Master Itosu. Indeed, he introduced Karate in Okinawa's schools in parallel with the gymnastics course.

The history of the three villages is not useless as Master Gichin Funakoshi originated from Shuri. In 1922, he came to Japan to make a demonstration of Karate. At Master Karo's invitation (the creator of Judo), he presented his art to the Kodokan School. Later on, he created his own karate school, known under the name of Shotokan. The Shotokan School differed gradually from the Okinawa classical style, mainly because of the introduction of fighting techniques by Funakoshi's son, Yoshitaka.

In response thereto, Master Otsuka H. established his own school (the Wado-ryu style) in 1934. The popularity of karate began to grow in Japan and, following the migration of other Okinawa's experts, it took many forms.

Where does the word KARATE come from ?

The art of Okinawa, the ' Te ' was known under the name of Okinawa-Te. In 1930, Master Funakoshi introduced the word (ideogram) ' Kara ', which means ' Empty '. The word Te (the Hand) remained.

He added the ' do ' ending which means ' Way '. The name Karate-Do was born and means 'Empty Hand Way'.

Today, karate has immensely grown in popularity and is practised world-wide. Japan's capitulation during the Second World War enabled the development of the martial art. In 1957, the first championships were organized in Japan (the day after Funakoshi's decease who refused any sport ' drift ' of the art).

Subsequently, Karate spread all over the world but became more and more diverse, hence giving birth to a variety of different styles which make its homogenization almost impossible and its learning so interesting.

The Kata

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Katas have existed for as long as the art itself. They are indeed a set of codified techniques which were used in teaching the martial art.

What is a kata ? Let's, first of all, start from its definition : kata means ' pattern '. A kata is a form, a pattern, a technical code. It is a basis, a sort of book of which history is told when the kata is being practised.

As we have just seen it, this ' thing ' is nothing but a prescribed sequence of karate.

However, the kata is a set progression that is not practised at random. The kata, though it can appear under various forms, consists of an unchanging sequence of movements. A kata also represents a series of fighting techniques.

The message given through the kata, this specific sequence, is a Bunkaï. The regular repetition of katas in the dojos is the most coherent teaching method. A kata cannot be known after a few days of practice, it must be practised again and again in order not to forget it. A kata is ' a water source which should never be polluted '.

Hito Kata San Nen's sentence makes sense when you know that it means ' a kata every 3 years '.

Master Kanazawa's teaching, the creator of the SKIF (Shotokan style), sticks to this. According to him, it is better to know few katas in a perfect way than a high number of katas in a poor way.

The kata also represents a series of states that characterize us. It is alive and is lived by the practitioner. It can be described as follows :

◾A balance between fast and slow moments ◾Hard and soft moments ◾Concentration as a kata is not carried out once for all but is interpreted according to its authentic form. ◾Accurate breathing. Moments of inspiration and expiration unify the movements, always looking for the harmony of the mind and the body. Breathing is most of the time abdominal ! You have already understood that practising a kata, in its most accurate significance, requires a perfect balance between the mind and the body.

Today, the kata is also practised during tournaments. They are adapted to all grades. The SKIF recognizes 24 official katas but it is not rare that our experts practice new forms of katas or even katas from other styles. Karate is something exchangeable and adaptable, it is therefore not an old art but keeps more than ever its unificational meaning.

The Kumite gives karate other dimensions, i.e. ' timing ' (the way the practitioner moves in function or not of his partner, fighting frequency, etc.), ' awareness ' and ' control '.

' Timing ' is important. The karateka has to learn how to move and attack in an efficient way in order to destabilize his opponent's technique.

Learning how to acquire awareness enables the practitioner to know which technique he will have to use and in which case. Fighting is not only a question of physical power and a karateka has to adapt to this. Changing one's mind and preparing oneself to an attack requires a lot of experience. Being calm and attentive to the opponent's movements are things the karateka will also have to master.

Control means that the karateka adopts a perfect distance to lightly touch the opponent, to be able to stop when he wants to !

With regard to free-style sparring (jiyu kumite, which is practised in tournaments), karate luckily offers codified kumite, of which difficulty keeps on increasing according to the grade. These kumite are taught and designed in view of learning all concepts described hereabove.

For example, white and yellow belts learn Gohon Kumite, a five-step attack. They learn how to adapt to their opponent, to adopt the perfect distance, to keep the attack under control, etc. The higher the practitioner ranks, the freeer is the Kumite, but the practitioner has definitively acquired the essential bases and will be able to apply them.

Among the basic kumite, let's mention :

◾Gohon Kumite (5 step attack) ◾Kihon Ippon Kumite (1 attack + 1 defence and counterattack); Kumite on one step, static and codified ◾Jiyu Ippon Kumite ; same as Kihon Ippon Kumite but dynamic and the techniques are different and more complicated ◾Okuri Jiyu Ippon Kumite ; same as Jiyu Ippon Kumite but in this case, there is a second attack technique which is non-codified and totally free + defence and counterattack on this one. ◾Jiyu Kumite :free-style sparring For the DAN grades (black belts), the kumite turns more onto Jiyu Kumite and Okuri Jiyu Ippon Kumite but also multi-attacker sparring, with projections, locks (self-defence techniques), blows on vital points and armed fighting. However, a theory is given to Kyu grades' students (lower grades) on these various black-belt kumite.