Shaolin karate

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Shaolin Karate is a martial art system that was founded as a synthesis of the Chan-Shaolin-Si (dragon style) created by Gerard Karel Meijers and modern Karate-Do in the 1970s and 1980s by Willy Horstmann. Willy Horstmann died in July 2014.

history

Shaolin-Si came to Europe (Netherlands) in the 1950s through Chen Tao Tze (Tze-Gerard Karel Meijers, also Prince Ganjuuryn Dschero Khan Chen Tao; born August 28, 1928 on the River Onon in the Bay of Ulan Bator ), who here which founded Shaolin Kempo . However, the Asian training methods are hardly practicable in Europe (Europeans are usually not able to train more than 2-4 hours a day), and deficits inevitably arise. For this reason, Meijers' student Willy Horstmann introduced Karate-Do (which in turn had developed from Shaolin martial arts) as elementary school training in the 1980s, which is based on Shaolin-Si training and techniques in higher levels.

Shaolin Karate taught in the Netherlands and West Germany is not the same as American Shaolin Kempō Karate (sometimes just called Shaolin Karate), which has a similar concept but has different roots, such as Kara-Ho Kempō Karate in particular reached the USA via Hawaii .

Content

  • Elementary school karate (elementary school movement theory as an archetypal basis)
  • Shaolin Kempō (from Shifu Tse Meijer's adapted Kempō combat system)
  • Pokkeck ("Chinese boxing", or "temple boxing", the ancient hard fighting system of the Shaolin monks)
  • Wu-Dang Tai-Keck ( Combat Tai-Chi )

Shaolin Karate renounces competition tournaments and is not a “sport karate”, but sees itself as a fighting “art” whose ultimate goal is the perfection of the personality, the unity of the physical and mental, the unity of yin and yang .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Willi Horstmann
  2. ↑ The biography of Prince Dschero Khan, PdF file, by Christoph Lemm (German, accessed April 9, 2014)