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Uploaded by on Jan 20, 2007

1983 JKA All Japan Karate Championships semifinal kumite

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  • catch the details

    the last point look for the jugde on the chair

    looks like the great tanaka

    he lifts the white flag for yahara

    but changes his mind and lifts the red flag for imamura

  • My sensei was trained by him. No wonder i got hurt so much in practice.

  • It's also ruining karate as a martial art, because martial arts are about fighting. We're going to wind up like post-Olympic TKD if this continues.

    The best solution, to keep things real but also keep it accessible to most people, is to add the SuperSafe helmets the Koshiki Karate organization uses. Then you can hit full contact with no injuries.

  • Bouncing does not necessarily increase starting speed. And I seriously doubt anyone is "twice as fast" as Mikio Yahara. Also, tournament karate for points is altogether different from "keep yourself alive" karate. Scoring a point is one thing, taking out multiple attackers with basically one technique per attacker (which Yahara has done as professional provider of security against Japan's Yakuza) is something else again. Strong technique needs a strong platform.

  • @wannabeebee:

    you don't know what you're talking about wannabeebee, if you did you'd have videos and wouldn't be a ghost account trolling the shotokan karate videos

    i seriously doubt you can make ME look amusing, little ape

  • Agreed.

  • please tell me that they are pulling punches and kicks

  • I agree that it is important to protect the competitors, and you are right, many in the older style kumite were injured more frequently. I guess you can't have everything and still have a safe contest.

  • WKF actually used to be more like JKA back then.

    However, it is changed to that, because of the adjustment to the olympic. Since JKA ippon rule caused lots of injuries due to the hard hitting rule and it is extremely hard to judge, the JKA rule donsn't do good as sport.

    WKF rule is more safe and easier to judge, though it lacks real combat aspects.

    it is suitable for sports. I personally like JKA rule better, but as long as spreading karate as a popular sports, WKF rule is fine.

  • Now I haven't been doing karate from the 60's. I wasn't even born then. I have done competition for more than 10 years however and have experimented with bouncing and without. For me there is deffinately an increase of starting speed. I also don't see it as waste of energy since karate matches don't take longer than a couple minutes. It is true that bouncing makes you weaker to a sweep, you are lighter on your feet, which is why you need to change your rhytm. Something many don't.

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