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EmpiShotokan Kata: Empi (Flight of the Swallow) Empi comes to us from the Okinawan Tomari-te school where it apparently first appeared in 1683. It is believed to have been influenced by Chinese boxing. It was originally called Wansu (wanshu). Funakoshi Gichin changed the name when he moved to the Japanese mainland in the 1920's. Funakoshi changed the names of many of the kata, in an effort to make the Okinawan art more palatable to the then nationalistic Japanese. The main theory about it's creation and development is that a Sappushi Wang Ji, an official from Xiuning, transmitted the kata while serving on Okinawa. Others purport that it was a product of the interaction between Okinawans and the so-called "36 Chinese Families" that immigrated to the islands in the late 1300's. Execution Video reference Karate Union of Australia: Empi See also EMPI, European Motor Parts, Inc. Indepedent company formed in the 1960s and operated from Riverside, CA. A pioneer in the development of performance parts for the aircooled Volkswagen. The company today reproduces vintage performance parts from that era. See www.empius.com. Bunkai, Kata, Shotokan
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