Naha-te (那覇手, Okinawan: Naafa-dii) is a pre-World War II term for a type of martial art indigenous to the area around Naha, the old commercial city of the Ryukyu Kingdom and now the capital city of Okinawa Prefecture.

A karate club named Okinawa-te was started in January 1974. In 1971, an attempt was made to re-establish ties with Soke Murphy and the Isshin Shorinji Ryu system, but failed. The ties with Isshin Shorinji were dissolved as a result.

2013年4月7日 · Ti'gwa [手小] was Okinawa's plebeian form of percussive impact—–aka "Te," “Ti,” "Di" [手 meaning hand/s] or Okinawa-te and Uchinadi. It was an art that depended principally upon the use of clenched fists to strike an opponent [in contrast to the open hand method preferred by Chinese arts, according to both Kyan Chotoku & Miyagi ...

Naha-te (那覇手 Okinawan: Naafa-dii) is a pre-World War II term for a type of martial art indigenous to the area around Naha, the old commercial city of the Ryūkyū Kingdom and now the capital city of the island of Okinawa.

The Okinawans combined Chinese martial arts with the existing local variants to form Tō-te (唐手 Tuudii), also sometimes called Okinawa-Te (沖縄手 Uchinaa-dii). By the 18th century, different types of Te had developed in three different villages–Shuri, Naha and Tomari in different forms.

Collectively, they constituted Okinawa-Te or Tode (also To-te). Gradually, Te was divided into two main groups: Shorin-ryu, which developed around Shuri and Tomari systems, and Shorei-ryu, which originated from the Naha area.

Karate (空手) is a martial art developed in the in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called te (手, literally "hand"; Tii in Okinawan) and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands.

This martial art later became OKINAWA TE.. In the expanses of a vast sea, halfway between the Chinese island of Taiwan and the Japanese island of Kuyshu, 800 kilometers from the continent lies a ring of small islands - the archipelago Ruyku(Nansei) - whose largest island Okinawa takes up almost half of its square surface of 2,5 thousand km2.

This martial art later became OKINAWA TE. In the expanses of a vast sea, halfway between the Chinese island of Taiwan and the Japanese island of Kuyshu, 800 kilometers from the continent lies a ring of small islands - the archipelago Ruyku(Nansei) - whose largest island Okinawa takes up almost half of its square surface of 2,5 thousand km2.

Okinawa is the largest island of the group know as the Ryukyu Islands which extend from the southern tip of Japan to Taiwan. Extensive trade between Okinawa and mainland China over centuries dating before the 12th century brought many aspects of Chinese culture to these tiny islands including exposure to various styles of the ancient Chinese ...