Karate Evolutions

Long ago on a far, far away island there was an indigenous system called, “Ti.”

Soon there were three villages whose Ti proponents evolved Ti into “Naha, Tomari, and Shuri systems by evolving Ti to a more appropriate way (as in Tao).

As times and environments changed there once again evolved each village proponent developed there respective village system into a more individualized form recently renamed from Ti to Kara-te and they called each by a unique individual name, I.e., Goju, Shorin, and Uechi,” Kara-te. 

As time, environment and the karate communities evolved, expanded and became more popular the concept of individualized change gained popularity, especially as a sport commodity, individuals continued the time honored way of individual status oriented change.

To take the old, to modify the concepts into relevant and individualized technique-based “New-Old” to create many, many, many more systems or styles.

Individualized change is taking the tried, true and established and modifying the outward window dressing into a varianced difference, to separate one’s preferences into a unique, status-seeking and tribal-oriented separatist group toward control, egoistic and commercially oriented self-promoting venue, to best others and building a self-promoting egoistic tribe, clan or group dynamic of us-vs-them.

When all the window dressed self-serving chaff is removed from the wheat, all that is left are the underlying fundamental principles that make multiple methodologies for self-protection under self-defense - “Work.”

This would bring all the various systems and styles full circle back to a principled based system or style once simply called, “Ti (pronounced Tea).”