Truth, bro.
I long for the Once Upon a Time days. Alas. Perhaps they'll come back into fashion long after we're gone. I hope so for the sake of the practitioners.
Olympic Combat Sports
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I long for the Once Upon a Time days. Alas. Perhaps they'll come back into fashion long after we're gone. I hope so for the sake of the practitioners.
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Yup, but I started with Japanese Jujutsu....in a fencing school (3 walls were covered with fencing foils and masks).....with a carpeted floor, no mat...or pads.. then later pre-olympic TKD...linoleum floor.....good times
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
OK, I watched the olympic coverage because it said karate. I started at 2:45pm, watched over 30 minutes of commercials and olympic promos, a whole lot of boxing...and then, at 4:30.....a bronze metal kata match that only showed the second competitors kata and then...more commercials and promos...and finally one gold medal women's kumite (which was a good match)....then at 4:50 commercials, olympic promos and.....marathon coming up next.....sheesh..... hours of tkd last week.....minutes of karate this week
To answer my own question, I did some googling and apparently the allowable kata for the Olympics come from Goju Ryu, Shito Ryu, Shotokan, and Wado Ryu. There are 102 kata on the approved list, so I guess the ones that I’ve seen competitors select so far just haven’t been the more common ones that I’ve seen mentioned around here in the past.
Yeeeeah haha... myself and many other karateka I know are not a fan of the really prolonged, excessive kiai.... and to me defeats the purpose of why we do it. The kiai is important but prolonging it seems to be just for theatrical, dramatic effect. Maybe even to show the intensity and spirit of it, but too much is too much haha!Very curious about this myself. Also curious about the yelling. Is that good yelling? I got the impression from comments about XMA that yelling and crazy intensity was NOT a good thing. But these guys seemed quite intense and also quite loud.
There have been some good ones though!
Oh I am tempted to again post 'the' video I OFT post, oh don't tempt me...
Oh man.... I'm sure people could be offended by this.. but IT'S JUST TOO GOOD HAHAHAHA
Bravo, bravo...
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
sorry, did not hold the 4th pause long enough and there is nowhere near enough KIIIIAAA
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
10 to 15 minutes of karate sometime between 3:45pm and 6:00pm today EST
Jacob competed in a few WKF tournaments. They were interesting but he preferred the scoring format the USKA and PKC uses.
I hope Karate Combat can keep growing. I think it could be good for karate.
You're saying they have to choose a Kata from an approved list?
And face blocking a kick into your own unconsciousness gets you a gold medal in Kumite?
God help the world of Karate.
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Saw that, get knocked unconscious....get carried off the mat......and get a gold medal.... yeah....I have no words
Interesting bit is I got the impression that kicking someone in the neck/head, and knocking them unconscious...would NOT get you disqualified in Olympic TKD.... none of this makes sense
I agree, and I think I understand the rules, and I certainly understand their desire for the safety of the competitors, but it is Kumite, and when you bend into the kick yourself - you should learn a valuable lesson, not win an Olympic Gold medal.
Would you win in boxing if you got knocked out?
How about wrestling or judo?
Why in the world would they implement such a stupid rule?
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
I'm all for safety too, but that was ridiculous. Winning a gold for a knockout.....being the one that was knocked out
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Heck, I think you would win in TKD if you knocked your opponent out.
You absolutely do. I'm not a particular fan of the Olympic TKD sparring rules, but at least you don't win gold by getting knocked out.
Given my profession, I could be, in 4 minutes.
I finally got a chance to watch the match. That wasn’t even a particularly hard kick, compared to any others that were thrown in this match or other matches that I saw. It was just a quick, flicky lead leg kick with no real hip turnover or carry through. It might not even have connected if the other guy hadn’t leaned into it. His opponent should have gotten a penalty for head butting his foot that way.
