Karate questions

when karate arrived to japan it became more a physical educational method than a fighting style...

Hikite was highlighted as a way of balancing body actions. You use pushing muscles for punching and retracting muscles for hikite...

Hikite was for beginners only in acient okinawa karate
For combative purpuses the study of nahifanchi was higly consider... almost no chambering in nahifanchi

Hikite - backward hand? Hand moving backwards?

Nahifanchi - ???

Naihanchi (Naifhancii etc.) also known as tekki in japanese arts

I use chambering in naihanchi before the first down block, but again i think it is a grip fighting movement

Ogami Itto - Hikite - backward hand? Hand moving backwards?


Hikite literally means pulling hand, the hand you pull back