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T1 Karate's ambiguity: Traditional martial art or modern combat sport
A1 Jakhel, Rudolf
K1 Educación Física
K1 Artes marciales asiáticas
K1 Deportes de combate
K1 Karate
K1 Kata
K1 Competición
AB [EN] After  a  radical  conversion  of  the  old  Okinawan, anti-samurai  martial  art  toti  in the 1920s,  a  new,  in  effect  Japanese  modern  combat  sport,  karate,  came  into  being.  The  very  first  karate  sports  contest  already  took  place  in  1930.  But,  at  the  end  of  1950s,  karate  started  to  be  exported  to  the  Western  world  as  a  traditional  martial  art  of  Japanese  samurai,  even  if  the  samurai  had  not  known  karate.  That  then  already  omnipresent  doctrine  has  allowed  no  other  perception  despite  the  fact  that,  globally,  the prevalent  phenomenon  in  the  field  has  been  karate  sports  contests  in  bouts  and  katas.  Exposing  the  concept  of  karate  as  a  traditional  martial art to be an unhistoric, artificial ideological superstructure, this study is based on more than 50 years of  accumulated  scepticism  of  the  author  that  has  been  confirmed  through  communication  with  students  of  various  karate  styles  and  the evaluation  of  several  publications  and  studies.  It  is  hoped  that  the  findings  of  this  basic  study  will  encourage  the  sports  scientific  community  to  favor  further  research  directed  to  indisputable and unambiguous explanation of karate.
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LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/16605
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NO Jakhel, R. (2019). Karate’s ambiguity: Traditional martial art or modern combat sport. Revista De Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 14(2s), 68–70. https://doi.org/10.18002/rama.v14i2s.6000
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