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- From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
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- Subject: Re: poor technique
- Message-ID: <4451@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 22:04:04 GMT
- References: <JON.92Dec14165354@zeus.med.utah.edu> <4449@unisql.UUCP> <JON.92Dec29120826@zeus.med.utah.edu>
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- In article <JON.92Dec29120826@zeus.med.utah.edu> jon@zeus.med.utah.edu (Jonathan Byrd) writes:
- >This discussion arose when you said that the participants in karate
- >tournaments "pretend" to hit. You implied that techniques thrown in
- >karate tournaments are somehow less than real. That runs contrary to
-
- I'm really not saying what I mean very well. Bear with me while
- I try again.
-
- A tournament _must_ be less than realistic, or it would be
- actual combat and not a tournament at all. There are different approaches
- to make this unreality happen. In judo we allow only a subset of possible
- techniques and we pad the ground and practice falling so that we can do
- that safe subset of techniques at full speed without injuring each other.
- Where I'm confused about karate tournaments is that since there _is_ no
- safe subset of techniques - what's a painless way to strike someone? - how
- can you use karate techniques in this situation without "watering them down",
- that is, NOT executing them at full power and speed?
-
- Your answer seems to be that my mistake is to believe them when they
- say "no contact", and that irregardless of the rules they really do hit each
- other with full power blows...
-