Why karate not in olympics

In contrast, teenagers hauled in three of the four gold medals in skateboarding, one of two in climbing and two out of eight in taekwondo, perhaps karate's closest rival at the Olympics.

At a news conference on Sunday, World Karate Federation President Antonio Espinos expressed confidence that through karate's Japanese "tradition, values and culture", it had earned its place in the Olympics as a permanent fixture. One might also ask whether the Games needs another combat sport. Judo and taekwondo were added inside the last six decades to the more-than-century-old disciplines of wrestling and boxing. To the casual observer, karate's other category, "kumite", or sparring, could look like a game of tag, with competitors spending much of the time bouncing on their toes and staring at each other, looking for an opening.

When that split-second punch or kick comes, it happens so fast that the clock is frequently stopped for video replays. And we can guess what happens when money gets involved. First of all, I should mention that although I am a crazy Karate fan, I would rather to see the wrestling back to the Olympic, since it has been an inseparable part of Olympics since the first day.

Anyway, I would love to see Karate among the other sports in Olympics. First of all, there will be more people trying to practice Karate afterwards and as you know, the more karatekas, the better we will get , and we are to witness higher quality and standards. You see, I am one of those people who believe in the face that Karate should be used in the case of protection ONLY, and by that I mean a death-life situation.

The rest is gaining power and self-control and etc. As you mentioned above, separating these two will happen only after the Karate is accepted as a sport in Olympics. In short, this is a great opportunity for the Karate world, that will make everybody to define their viewpoint in this regard.

Afterwards, we all are free to choose. For those who want to go further as athletes, there is Olympics and concentrating on Kumite and so on, and for those who want to practice Karate as a way of life, a life far away from combats, or a dojo in which ther will be a lot of Kata practicing and senseis who won't make you do Kumite just to make you ready for any kind of tournament.

October 12, at am. What you say is correct none the less but people will be more oriented to the sport part about karate rather than the art, this will make it harder for karate to function in its true form as a martial art, this means that karate will become like post-Olympic taekwon-do which is more oriented towards the the sport part rather than the important stuff like forms and self defense effectiveness.

Djabrail Moukhtarov. Karate in Olympics sounds cool. And it might be very interesting in many cases. Karate going to Olympics it doesn't really means that people will stop practicing traditional way.

It will just add a little flavor to what karate people do. Kumite is an outcome of those two components. In my opinion karate should go to Olympics. Just the bad parts is that wrestling is out. I am really disappointed with IOC's decision. Shouldn't be this way. Karate Student. Yes, gaining acceptance into the Olympics would only broaden Karate's audience base. More exposure means more people. This would be a good thing for Karate. Sports Kumite vs Traditional? Who believes that those trained for exclusively for sports can actually overcome those trained with the three K's Kihon, Kata and Kumite in the long term?

I regulary compete under WKF rules - and I've seen athletic karate players at State level look unstoppable with their barage of round and hook kicks. Anticipated reverse punch counter? They couldn't get a point with it if you put your hands down and ran at them. Sounds bad? Perhaps so far, - however I'm forutante enough to have seen a couple of these types compete alongside myself at National level. Unsurprisingly, they got hammered against the higher level of competition often being unable to overcome other competitiors who quickly realised they could easily counter with reverse punches.

Watching one such player lose 6 - 5 from a 5 - 0 lead pretty much made it clear that the teachings of endurance, persistance and technique in a martial art are able to overcome athleticism and pretty kicks. Now, under WKF rules it can suck hard if you're 2 - 0 up and one of those kicks tags you in the last ten seconds relegating you a loss. However all this really says is that you need to sharpen up your defense - which is never a bad thing.

Gaining this insight in a tournament is a lot better than 'learning' this while failing to defend yourself. In my experience good kihon leads is required for good kumite. While some players attempt to circumvent this with athletism indeed have you wondered why some coaches seem to develop champions where as for others it only happens when they get luckly and have a natural athlete come through the Dojo door? At National level it's generally not a successful long term strategy.

I doubt anyone approaching sport karate in this manner would ever succeed Internationally. June 18, at am. I think it would be good if the karate would be in the olympics, it would be a huge evolve for the wonderful art. For being a such a huge event, a karate contest without kata is ridiculous! Why even think about it! Why do we not let all the other people in the world to see, enjoy and discover a totally different way of competing.

What would the world say if they saw katas like Rika Usami and Antonio Diaz. It would be such a shame. That would be very tiring and two world champion chips in a year, can you just imagine that , competition would be lowered. If not i will say NO immedetly. June 19, at am. Damon The Olympics are in the summer and the world championships in November.

How is that tiring? They're used to many tournaments year-round 'Meditterranean games, Premier league Also all disciplines have world championships. I wasn't surprised that kata wasn't considered. It could become a reality several years down the line if the Olympics make karate more popular in western countries in France it is the 16th most popular sport, which simply isn't enough despite a sharp increase these last few years. But right now kata would be rejected by viewers.

But this is all a moot point now that karate didn't even make the shortlist of 3. We'll be seeing softball or squash. Oh well. June 19, at pm. Charles Well those contests you are talking about is not as big as the world championships.

Of course we have many big contests each year, but the world ones are totally an another thing. Why do you think WKF has chosen to hold the championships every two years. Because to hold the excitement, the people watching is going to be so much fewer. And all the participants, will the hang on? It is two, almost exactly same, very big contests with just a few months between.

It is a whole other thing if we compare with different contests. Well the kata thing I agree with you. Only Kumite is not bad at all if you think about it. PS: "Karate Rocks"! June 29, at am. Karate in the Olympics? I hope never. Okay, first off, we're talking about "kumite in the olympics" since they'd never 'understand' kata enough themselves, let alone be able to explain it to their audience. Who watches kumite? Parents and karate nerds. Who watches the olympics? Would the latter group be able to quickly grasp the "scoring criteria" for kumite?

Sorry, no. Kumite as it exists now is too technical for an olympic audience. Our "kumite" would end up like olympic TKD, with electronic "contact sensing" vests and the like. Let's not go there. October 18, at pm. It depends on the way you want to practice karate, because karate is a martial art, a real good one to ,but because of modern sport oriented way of teaching karate I don't blame the japanese who rather than sportified karate improved it in their own way but the westerners who didn't understand the true meaning of it[only some of them].

If karate is to be a sport only the kata should be there in competitions rather than kumite because and I quote many people,ruins the true form of karate, whereas the kata only improves upon your beloved karate. Even if kumite is included in karate it should be the kyokushin way full-contact,no-nonsense essentially and dangerously simple. In the case of katas the competitions should be judged on the way the the kata should be performed according to style rather than the way the judges want it to be performed even better is to have competitions based on style so that the judges decision can be much more clearer not that I want karate to be divided on the basis of styles.

What is this about Japanese versus Western, using Kyokushin as a reference? To me Kyokushin is to modern karate competition what old-style boxing is to modern boxing. Two people trading blows without hardly any blocking or moving versus a large panel of techniques including dodging, distance management, takedowns, speed and precision. Someone should define exactly what it is they are refering to when talking about "true karate" and using Kyokushin as an example. Having tried both WKF style and Kyokushin at a decent level would be a plus.

October 19, at pm. Well you see Kyokushin is a bit more closer to the true meaning of karate rather than WKF because Kyokushin emphasizes full contact which will be the most likely in a real fight but I'm not really a fan of "not blocking". WKF will be less closer because it sort of warps Karate into a mutant form of what karate really should be like. The JKA method is even closer to the true meaning of karate because it believes in using a killing blow at the start itself.

By the way, the true meaning of karate is self-defense and self control. I didn't mean to offend you about the west, instead I wanted to just give you an opinion about what westerners understand about karate and what they don't. Some of the westerners came back to their country with incomplete or no knowledge at all about the art, so Mcdojos came into being. WKF promotes the art but not the way it should be.

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What people tend to forget is that Karate was never meant to be a sport. Becoming Olympic would corrupt the already-corrupt-karate-world even more and that would do more harm than good. Remind yourselves, why Karate is one of the fighting arts that just get a poor smile when mentioned. It is thanks to thos who promote is as a sport practicing speed only and bunny-hop-karate Traditional Shotokan would NOT do that.

Nor would Kyokushin. But applying rules of either of them would not be suitable for Olypic Sports. I mean wearing protectiv gear on head, rump and shins and hands Karate must never ever go Olympic. Eric Zed. Yes, karate was not meant to be a sport France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites. From Cobra Kai to Chuck Norris, karate is known around the world—but practitioners of the Japanese martial art are hoping the Tokyo Olympics can bring an even wider audience.

After decades of campaigning, karate finally chops its way onto the Olympic stage in Japan as one of four sports making a Games debut. In Japan—birthplace of the high-kicking, hard-punching martial art —practitioners young and old want the sport to leave a lasting impression on global viewers.

Karate arrived in mainland Japan from the southern Okinawa islands in the early 20 th century, and quickly became popular as a form of self-defence. But its true essence goes far beyond just punching and kicking, becoming a part of everyday life for those who practise it.

Kumite involves two fighters trying to land blows on each other in bouts of up to three minutes, while kata sees athletes perform choreographed moves for the judges to score.

Karate officials have been pushing for the sport to be included in the Olympics since the s, and the athletes taking part this summer are excited to finally be there.