# Karate

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Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/karate

Karate is a striking-based martial art that originated in Okinawa, Japan, emphasizing punches, kicks, knee strikes, and open-hand techniques along with blocking and footwork. Practitioners train through kata (structured forms), sparring, and breaking exercises, progressing through a belt ranking system from white to black belt. People pursue it for self-defense, physical fitness, discipline, and competitive sport, with styles like Shotokan, Goju-Ryu, and Kyokushin being especially well known.

Related skills: [Self-Defense](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/self-defense), [Taekwondo](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/taekwondo), [Martial Arts](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/martial-arts), [Kickboxing](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kickboxing), [Kung Fu](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kung-fu), [Dojo](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/dojo), [Taijutsu](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/taijutsu)

## Open roles requiring Karate (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.