A Hidden Karate Technique That Nobody Understands

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aaahhhh!!!! I was always taught it represented shielded aggression, and learned in KungFu when I was a kid, but this explanation seems more plausible

Great video! Also shows that Jon, Jin, Jitte (=Jutte) and probably Chintz as well appear to come from the same region in China and later Okinawa

There was a saying "uphold the qing, restore the ming"

My Chinese name is 李明泽

The history of karate can be a saga of movies - sequels, prequels and trilogies.

The first move of Bassai dai, interesting…

@JesseEnkamp you just blew my mind with this history lesson, god bless you. Thank you.

Vänta vänta, så de kinesiska rebellerna formade nutidens triader? Det var otippat O_O

I just adore your work Jesse. Such a great pedagog you are, with so much experience, skills and knowledge. As a returnee to Karate Do after 30 years, I've picked some of your advices and we'll se how it goes for this 49 years old man ;)
Thank you sensei! Ossu!

now i know where my name came from. - 子明 (zi ming)

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My favourite video 🥋🎯

That is a great piece of history, very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Woah! Did someone say, "Triads?" I was not expecting that. That's very interesting. I'm going to have to do more research on that. Thanks for history lesson, Jesse. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Fascinating

There is a style of Okinawan Karate called Meibukan Goju-Ryu, and it's symbol, the Meibukan Crest, depicts the Sun and the Moon next to each other, much like the kanji in the video title. The Sun is shown as a large, solid object, unyielding and unchanging, whereas the symbol for the moon is open on one side, ready to flex and change, like the phases of the real moon. Moreover, this can be taken as symbolic for a line from the Bubishi (original Chinese Wubei Zhi), an encyclopedia on war and combat, that reads "The way of inhaling and exhaling is both hard and soft". The Sun is hard, solid, and strong, where the moon is soft, flexible, and changing. Even this style of Karate, "Goju-Ryu" is a reference to this. It means, "Hard and Soft Style".
A good fighter needs to use both hard and soft techniques. Solid and strong for your strikes to have force, but if you rely only on that you will move slowly and stiffly.

...we have that in a taekwon do form too.... understandable since taekwondo has karate roots... but wow

Thank you. Jesse, your research into the history of the arts, symbolism and etc is truly amazing. You are indeed thorough.