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- From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: poor technique
- Message-ID: <63101@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 05:16:49 GMT
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- wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie) writes:
- >
- > 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?
-
- Pads and/or armor. Limited techniques and targets. Conditioning.
- We wear hand and foot pads, headgear and mouthpieces; women wear chest
- pads and men wear cups. We forbid blows to the back, the legs, the
- joints, the throat, and below black belt level, to the head. No one
- engages in kumite until they reach green belt - about a year of training -
- so they have the necessary control to not hurt others and the necessary
- conditioning to be hit and not be injured.
-
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