Tsunami Karate is a Polish style of karate founded by Ryszard Murat. The style is named Tsunami due to the apparent overwhelming power of its techniques. Two Karate practitioners engaging in competition style Karate. ...

In Tsunami Karate the Japanese names of the technique and the principles of dojo are used; the style was created in Poland, but created on the most traditional bases of the styles of karate, which explains the use of the Japanese terminology. The tsunami demands to have a politics of the mercy, indicating the opinion that 'in a situation of the fight, one should gouge only one eye, not two.' A dojo is a term used in Japanese martial arts that refers to a formal training hall. ...

The style was considerably affected on the street battle and also pays attention to the specific expressions of face; the demands that often a battle can be only won by the merits of the expressions of face of the fighter. These expressions of the faces differ completely from the faces of the normal people involved in the fight.

This style pays attention to the use of the nonconventional weapon which is specifical for people of Poland: a sickle, a shovel etc.

Tsunami Karate has rather bad reputation in the Polish environment of martial arts, because its founder was an officer of communistic secret police (Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa). He has only the seventh kyu in the traditional karate when he created the style of martial art that was entirely novelty. Some specialists of karate approve that Tsunami Karate deceives the Polish school of traditional karate. Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB, until 1956 Urząd Bezpieczeństwa, UB) was the name of the intelligence agency and secret police in the Peoples Republic of Poland. ... Kyu (ç´š) is a Japanese term used in martial arts, chado, ikebana, go and in other similar activities to designate various degrees or levels of proficiency or experience. ...

Trivia

The largest controversy is caused probably by a fact, that (as he calls himself) Soke Ryszard Murat had only seventh kyu (the yellow belt) in the traditional karate when he founded Tsunami Karate. Immediately he has received the tenth dan (the highest degree black belt), in his meaning it places him in the same line as owners of black belts in other martial arts (who has received it through practice and examinations). Soke is a Japanese title that means Headmaster (or sometimes translated as Grand Master or Head of the Family). It can mean one who is the leader of any school or the master of a style, but it is most commonly used as a highest level Japanese martial arts title... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Dan grade. ...

External links

• Polish Portal of Tsunami Universal Movement