W.T.K.F. World Traditional Karate Federation

The WTKF World Traditional Karate Federation, was born from a spontaneous movement of some Karate Masters with the aim of better identifying the founding values of KARATE, with particular attention to TRADITIONAL KARATE.

Karate is our goal for everyone, but preserving the descent and the origin of the reference Masters of each style by not losing the enormous technical and cultural background that we have received...;

all this with the aim of comparing ourselves and favoring the technical exchange between styles and Masters without neglecting the cultural aspect that sees the study of the origins of everyone in the first place.

I prefer to express general concepts here because, unfortunately, the confusion generated by the various "appellations" given to KARATE is great and, in any way it is defined, there would be the risk of generating misunderstandings.

Master Nakayama himself, in a well-known interview, defined himself as a karate practitioner and underlined karate with the intent to make people understand the lack of delimitation that in some way could result from belonging to a so-called style...

I myself have had the opportunity to appreciate the wide variety of interpretations in Okinawa and to learn karate by the local Masters who, however, were concerned, immediately after the execution of the technique, to provide the genealogy to which they belonged in order to make a certain execution to a specific Master... For example: it can also be done in a different way as long as the variation is documentable and has real technical-functional reasons...

Great friendliness and collaborative spirit, combined with a healthy curiosity for a way of doing a little different from their...

It is to this concept of universality that the WTKF intends to refer, making culture through KARATE, recognizing it in all respects as a tool for the evolution and improvement of the person. Nobody excluded!

WTKF includes through the various structured sectors: competition, children, young people, adults, people with disabilities, those interested in doing research in the field of martial arts and everything culturally related to them.

As regards the competitive aspect, WTKF has adopted the Master Hidetaka Nishiyama idea, in a forward-looking perspective of unification of KARATE, conceived by managing to create and make compatible the competitive aspect with that related to the research and study of kumite and of the kata.

In fact, it is necessary that the agonist has the opportunity to cultivate, even during this period of his life linked to the practice, a suitable spirit which then allows him to progress once he has abandoned the moment of competitions.

Too many times we have had and we have examples of albeit good agonists who, once they have embarked on the path of teaching, have found themselves no longer having the necessary elements, having lost teaching skills and therefore forced to offer their students models that perhaps worked for themselves but that were not suitable for their students...

Another strong motivation for the creation of the WTKF, which I remember being primarily a Cultural Association, was the great split of karate that has occurred in recent years; this, without any controversy, led to the cancellation or in any case the strong weakening of what could have been the guidelines provided by some charismatic figures with proven ability and competence.

The result was the need to make available to the new levers and to all those who share our thoughts, a clear and crystalline vision of KARATE to allow those who want to choose ...

An ambitious goal that will be reached with the participation of all those sincerely interested in KARATE in all its forms ....

We have also created a consultation that represents the maximum democratic and guarantee for WTKF affiliates which is SHIHANKAI.

Antonio Corrias