Both Japan and South Korea somehow lost a lot of their martial lineages in the war. For various different reasons.
So when they imported in Okinawan karate, people tried to resurrect their homeland styles using these teachers because Okinawan karate had impressive physical conditioning and weaponless methods that impressed people that felt this was the real power.
This was when the color belt system was generated in Japan, because one Okinawan teacher teaching a class of 100-200 Japanese, needed a way to sort the students into certain categories. And color coordination was the simplest.
Taekkyon would be the traditional Northern/long range kicking style for Korea. That got lost somehow.
There has been some work by people who learned under Japanese or Okinawan instructors, here in the US, in attempting to "reconstruct" what got lost or misremembered in the Japanese katas. The Katas had the movements, but the application break downs got misplaced or just forgotten because Okinawan instructors just did not know how to teach 200 students a day. They were used to like 1-9, total, for a life time.
Anyways, when I was learning martial arts, I got to reading questions on Yahoo Answers and used it as a spring board to do open source research on these topics for about 1-2 years. I remember this stuff because I was reverse engineering human hand to hand techniques at the time, and integrating them into my own personal art and path. I met a few people at Y Answers who knew the subject and could teach. I obtained some valuable experience and knowledge, but over all, almost all of them did not know how to teach these principles via online videos. They were too old school and needed physical contact methods. Very inefficient and obsolete to my eyes. It was a struggle between utilizing and understanding my intuition vs my lack of experience compared to all these others. By answering questions there, I also developed my polarization more.
I was not looking to memorize human techniques and movements. What I was interested in was the internal energy circulation methods, the principles and physics.
So when they imported in Okinawan karate, people tried to resurrect their homeland styles using these teachers because Okinawan karate had impressive physical conditioning and weaponless methods that impressed people that felt this was the real power.
This was when the color belt system was generated in Japan, because one Okinawan teacher teaching a class of 100-200 Japanese, needed a way to sort the students into certain categories. And color coordination was the simplest.
Taekkyon would be the traditional Northern/long range kicking style for Korea. That got lost somehow.
There has been some work by people who learned under Japanese or Okinawan instructors, here in the US, in attempting to "reconstruct" what got lost or misremembered in the Japanese katas. The Katas had the movements, but the application break downs got misplaced or just forgotten because Okinawan instructors just did not know how to teach 200 students a day. They were used to like 1-9, total, for a life time.
Anyways, when I was learning martial arts, I got to reading questions on Yahoo Answers and used it as a spring board to do open source research on these topics for about 1-2 years. I remember this stuff because I was reverse engineering human hand to hand techniques at the time, and integrating them into my own personal art and path. I met a few people at Y Answers who knew the subject and could teach. I obtained some valuable experience and knowledge, but over all, almost all of them did not know how to teach these principles via online videos. They were too old school and needed physical contact methods. Very inefficient and obsolete to my eyes. It was a struggle between utilizing and understanding my intuition vs my lack of experience compared to all these others. By answering questions there, I also developed my polarization more.
I was not looking to memorize human techniques and movements. What I was interested in was the internal energy circulation methods, the principles and physics.