A number of karate techniques are used to deliver strikes to the human body. These techniques are delivered from a number of stances. The karateka uses...

modern karate is primarily a striking art that uses punches and kicks, traditional karate training also employs throwing and joint locking techniques. A karate...

Kyokushin (極真) is a style of karate originating in Japan. It is a full-contact style of stand-up fighting and is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement...

(5th dan black belt). Kihon basics is the practice of basic techniques in Shotokan Karate. It includes stances, blocks, punches, kicks, various displacements...

of karate styles. Some of the distinguishing features are listed, such as lineage, general form of stances, the balance of hard and soft techniques, and...

Full contact karate is any format of karate where competitors spar (also called Kumite) full-contact and allow a knockout as winning criterion. Full contact...

American Kenpo Karate (/ˈkɛnpoʊ/), also known as American Kenpo or Ed Parker's Kenpo Karate, is an American martial art founded and codified by Ed Parker...

This list of The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai characters reflects fictional characters from The Karate Kid franchise. An A indicates an appearance through...

The Karate World Championships, also known as the World Karate Championships, are the highest level of competition for karate organized by the World Karate...

Okinawan styles of karate, featuring a combination of hard and soft techniques. Gō, which means hard, refers to closed hand techniques or straight linear...

Karate's Nage waza (投げ技, throwing techniques) is the set of techniques whereby the opponent is thrown to the ground. While typical students of karate...

The Karate Kid is a 1984 American martial arts drama film written by Robert Mark Kamen and directed by John G. Avildsen. It is the first installment in...

This is a list of techniques practiced in the Shotokan style of karate. Heisoku Dachi: formal attention stance Musubi Dachi: informal attention stance...

advanced breathing techniques are exercised in this stance. Hangetsu-dachi (半月立, Halfmoon stance) A version of sanchin used in some karate styles, particularly...

On the ground, sweeps are techniques for reversing a grappling position from a guard position. When standing it is a technique used to take an opponent...

II: Advanced Techniques of Shorei-Kan Karate. Black Belt Communications. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-89750-140-8. Pawlett, Ray (2004). The Karate Handbook. New...

karate that was founded in 1934 by Kenwa Mabuni (摩文仁 賢和, Mabuni Kenwa). Shitō-ryū is synthesis of the Okinawan Shuri-te and Naha-te schools of karate...

came to be regarded as the best in Okinawa in terms of practical karate techniques. He is reported to have been very agile, which gained him the nickname...

(玄制流) is a style of Karate founded by Seiken Shukumine (1925-2001). With Genseiryū, Shukumine combined classic Shuri-te techniques with his own innovations...

installment in the Karate Kid franchise and the sequel to the 1984 film The Karate Kid, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. The Karate Kid Part II follows...

elementary school techniques. Mercado, Luis Bernardo (24 December 2017). Tsuku Kihon: Advanced Fighting Techniques of Shotokan Karate. AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781477289280...

Vidal for the 1984 martial arts film The Karate Kid. The move involves the user adopting a one-legged karate stance before launching into a flying jumping...

Wadō-ryū (和道流) is one of the four major karate styles and was founded by Hironori Ōtsuka (1892–1982). Ōtsuka was a Menkyo Kaiden licensed Shindō Yōshin-ryū...

The Next Karate Kid is a 1994 American martial arts drama film directed by Christopher Cain, produced by Jerry Weintraub, and written by Mark Lee. It serves...

Ushiro-geri is the Japanese term for turning back kick, a kick employed in Karate. The kick is a basic move but there are variations of the Ushiro-Geri. Ushiro-Geri...

standard one-button joystick, allowing players to execute a variety of karate techniques. Unlike modern 2D fighting games, players do not turn around if the...

In Shotokan karate, soto uke is a blocking technique used for blocking mid-level incoming attacks. It is roughly translated as "From outside block", similar...

that evolved from the original nine kwans' karate roots and were lost in transition to taekwondo. The techniques of what is commonly known as Tang Soo Do...

Japanese style. The body of fighting and self-defense techniques which became Japanese Karate-do is thought to have originated about a thousand years...

thrusting techniques. In karate and its variants, the term tsuki is used as a part of a compound word for any one of a variety of thrusting techniques (usually...