Espartero, Henrick D.

BSCRIM-2B

Reflection

“Shotokan Karate History”

As this young age of mine I haven’t heard before about this kind of matter. I’ve just seen
karate movements in general through martial arts movies. To be honest, I am not familiar with
this karate called “Shotokan karate”. It was a new learning for me. However, even though I am
not that knowledgeable about the whereabouts of it. I can still learn to discover and ponder more
about it. Upon reading the article about history of Shotokan karate I was amazed on how it
develops, on how it grows and how it was spread by the masters, mentors or founder of this
karate. It was indeed a great contribution to the legacy and history of that culture. If I belong to
that culture I would be honored to have a great and unique kind of karate that originated in that
particular place. As I imagine the movements of this karate. I can see that it must be done with
passion and hard work down to harmonizing your body, soul and the movements of karate that
can make you as a strong, inevitable, and peaceful disciple of the karate movements. In other
words, the body, mind and spirit must be in unity in order to perform a Shotokan karate . To
conclude, I am enough thankful to know this kind of history that was remarkable and worth
commemorating for. Indeed it was great.