Our previous posts have shown how old school karate principles are used in a self-defense confrontation. In particular, they showed how these principles are effective in keeping the practitioner safe even if they only defend themselves, without counterattacking! Here, the intent of the founder of Muidokan was mainly to obstruct and restrict the opponent’s movements…
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“The number of individuals who really understand the nature of karate is extremely small. Furthermore, since karate is ever advancing, it is no longer possible to speak of the karate of today and the karate of a decade ago in the same breath. Accordingly, even fewer realize that karate in Tokyo today is almost completely…
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Among the various sources of Muidokan research are the historical teachings of ancient karate. Some of those teachings used to be transmitted exclusively through oral traditions (kuden 口伝) between generations of practitioners. Other teachings have been recorded in texts over a few decades at least since the 19th century by Okinawan masters. Whatever the method…
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What do the historical teachings of karate say about close range defense? Read the article and check this incredible video demonstrating it!
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In this video you can watch applications for the first part of Pinan Nidan kata (a close relative to Shotokan’s Heian Shodan). It comes from the research by Muidokan founder Samir Berardo, aimed at understanding the true fighting meaning of kata (hontou bunkai 本当分解). For this video, Samir had the kind collaboration of Noah Legel…
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Kakie カキエ is one of the extremely useful training drills of Okinawan karate, present in schools of many different lineages. In this brief article I want to share a few important points I've learned about it.
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Some people may have been wondering if Muidokan Karate Kenkyukai is related to the excellent traditional martial arts school run by Dan Djurdjevic in Australia, of which the karate division name is also Muidokan. The relationship can be better explained by Samir Berardo's own words.
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Check out this devastaging kata application sequence, demonstrated by Muidokan founder Samir Berardo!
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Muidokan Karate Kenkyukai and Blog Puro Karate have the pleasure to invite you to the Old Style Karate Seminar: the effectiveness of historical applications for self-defense, which will be instructed by Sensei Samir Berardo, presenting the historical form of karate practiced in Ryuukyuu (Okinawa) before the modernization of the art, brought back through a strict…
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The martial art we today call karate was originally developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom (located at an archipelago between southeast Japan and southeast China), based on the traditions and fighting knowledge of that area’s natives, plus the influences coming from arts and masters from other Asian regions (with some prominence to the arts from the…
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