Difference between Shotokan, Kenpo, and Okinawan Karate?

[TKD_McGee]

Tell me someone, I would like to know about these different arts more...

 

 

[Tobias_Reece]

HMMMMM....Interesting

 

Ok, crash course

 

Shotokan - Developed in Japan, by Gichin Funakoshi. Based on the Okinawan forms of karate, but with big changes eg. deep stances.

 

Kenpo karate - Developed in America. Based on many forms of martial arts, but centralising around street combat.

 

Okinawan karate - Martial arts developed from Chinese martial arts, and combat forms from the different provinces in Okinawa (Shuri, Naha, Tomari).

 

Thats very brief, and there are probably some mistakes eg. Kempo/kenpo eg. Shaolin Tzu-Kempo

 

If you want any more information, I'm sure the bods on this forum can help. Plus yuo could ask me for more detail

 

Hope this helps

 

 

[AnonymousOne]

Theres tons of info on the web about the history of these arts.

 

 

[ronryu]

Well as we all know lthere are many different styles . Shotokan was developed by funakoshi gichin from okinawan karate. There is alos Okinawan kempo which also use kata liek the pinan's and the nihanchi , but also have many different one on one mini kata i guess is what you would call them very quick and to the point soem say they came from china (shaolin boxing ) wee pratice an okinawan styel of kempo called katsu ryu .

 

Hope this helps to expand the confusion .