Karate-Do
Karate Greece - Hellas Okikukai Shohei-Ryu/ Uechi-Ryu Okinawa Karate-Do Hellas Hombu Dojo
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A Martial Art of "empty hands", known in the world today as "Karate-Do" was brought to Okinawa from China as early as during the Chinese Thang dynasty (618 -907). There it assumed its typical Okinawan form and became an innate and the most prominent part of Okinawan culture.
A variety of the "Chinese kempo" styles that had influenced the development of karate over the ages, contributed to the development and amplitude of the Okinawan styles (Ryuha) and associations (Kaiha).
In the early 1900's, Okinawan Martial Arts of Empty Hands was divided into four groups: (1) Shuri-Te, (2) Naha-Te, (3) Tomari-Te & (4) Pangai-Noon After the Oct. 25th, 1936, Shuri-Te was called "Shorin-Ryu", Naha-Te "Goju-Ryu" and Tomari-Te is assimilated into Shorin-Ryu and Goju-ryu. In the 1940 Pangai-Noon was renamed to Uechi-Ryu. In the Oct. 25, 1936 Karate-Do associations of Okinawa declared the "empty hands" characters as the official for the world Karate. In 2005, Okinawa Prefecture Assembly officially determined this date (October 25th) as "Karate-Day". In the first half of the XX century this art was imported to Japan and then very quickly to other parts of the world. It became one of the most popular of Martial Arts of the Far East. In Okinawa, Martial Art of Karate-Do continued the development in its original - traditional form.
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