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Before
the style was named Uechi Ryu it was called Pan-gai-noon which
is a Chinese word meaning hard/ soft. One story that is told is
that the monks (Chinese priests) learned and developed fighting
techniques from watching the movements of animals. It was
believed that there were six animals that gave rise to many of
the movements that we learn in karate training. Pan-gai-noon
(Uechi Ryu), it is said, was created from movements of the
tiger, crane and dragon. It is believed that in "the
early" days of karate that the forms of karate were taken
from the following animals, the snake ,dragon, tiger, monkey,
crane, and mountain lion. |
