Why You Should Be Trained In Karate

By Stella Gay


Unarmed fighting system started long ago in various cultures. Karate is categorized under martial arts. It entails open hand tactics like palm-hand strike, spear-hands, knife-hands and strikes like punches, kicks, elbow strikes, and knee strikes. New styles such as vital point strikes, restraints, throws, joint locks, and grappling have been incorporated into the original techniques. Students are known as karateka.

Hard training, creativity, and self-discipline are necessary for a trainee to learn various tactics. Research indicates that lots of people undertaking training do it so that they can defend themselves better by bettering their fighting skills. It is important to know that strikes captured by mass media are exaggerated to a great extend. Most moves depicted in movies are generated using computer so viewers must beware. Such deadly maneuvers must never be attempted for safety purposes.

This type of unarmed combat system can be practiced by every individual regardless of gender, age or fitness level. Most countries have numerous training centers where services can be obtained. Interested individuals may enter these facilities as private students or teams. A private student learns and develops at their own pace as they get assigned an instructor to train them. This martial art may boost confidence, focus, character, and inner security of trainees.

Training is divided into fundamentals or basics, forms, and sparring. Various styles place different importance on the fundamentals. Kata or form refers to a series of movements representing a range of defensive and offensive stances. The stances are based on idealized fighting application. During training the instructor demonstrates how every technique is applied when tackling an opponent.

Each form is learned faster when performed. Each rank has its mandatory forms that students must be able to execute during skill demonstration in order to receive official ranking. Coaching institutions have varied conditions for examinations, even though majority apply Japanese terminologies for belts, grades, and ranks. A ranking system may start with a bigger number and move to a small one or mark grades by colored belts.

Kumite also referred to as sparring is done as self-defense coaching or a sport. Contact levels during kumite differs greatly. Contact version can be semi contact, full contact or light contact. Structured kumite entails demonstration of a sequence of choreographed techniques by two practitioners, one attacks as the other blocks.

Free sparring is carried out in enclosed areas and people taking part in it are free to use only permitted techniques. Permitted techniques and level of contact can be predetermined by style organization policies or sport, but may be changed as per rank, sex, and age of participants. Under light or semi contact kumite contestants are rewarded as per sporting attitude, correct distance, good timing, good form, and awareness amongst other considerations.

To conclude, people who train for competitions can enter tournaments as a term or individual. Evaluation of skills is done by panels of judges or head referees with assistant referees. Fixtures are made basing on experience, gender, age, and weight. Tournaments can be for participants of specific style or open to martial artists with any style but confined to certain rules.




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