Karate

Karate (空手) is a Japanese martial art.^[1] It was developed in the former Ryūkyū Kingdom in what is now Okinawa Prefecture. Karate has been an Olympic sport since the 2020 Summer Olympics but in 2020, the IOC decided to drop Karate for the 2024 Paris Olympics, one year later in 2021, the IOC decided to reinstate Karate for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Karate uses all parts of the human body as a weapon such as the hand, fist, elbow, leg and knee. Karate training has three main sections:

• kihon (基本, きほん) is learning the basic techniques or fundamentals;
• kata (形（型）)　is the training of form, the specific order and way of using techniques;
• kumite (組手) is to learn how to fight using those techniques.

1. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Karate" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 482.