What does it mean to be selected as as all tournament team?
It sounds to me like an "All Star" in other leagues, where the best player(s) from each team get selected and honored.
If Daniel had lost in the karate tournament, would the Cobra Kai students have continued to bully and humiliate him? Considering he was in the tournament because of this.
Question: if daniel had lost in the karate tournament, would the Cobra Kai students have continued to bully and humiliate him? Considering he was in the tournament because of this.My no scenerio is based on the ending of KK1 Mr Miyagi said in something to this effect.“Win, lose no matter.”“No need fight anymore. You proved point.”I think Daniel has earned Johnny's respect by the last fight and not because Daniel defeated him.My yes scenario. If they did, they know they are now fighting a properly trained fighter who can defend himself. He has so much room to grow. By the next tournament, none of the Cobra Kai could take him.However, if Daniel lost in the matches before reaching the finals, it might be a different story altogether. But he always has Mr Miyagi who continue to train and nurture him.The whole karate kid story is not about the fight or the tournament. There is a deeper meaning to the movie.Anyway, its just a theory. A movie theory.
Lost my first karate tournament??? :(?
I had my first tournament today and I lost. I'm so sad. I have been training for a year but the girl I was against was really senior. My sensei doesnt focus on fight training much and we usually just do kata and other kicks and punches but he randomly signed my up for a fight in this really big tournament in my city. I'm so sad guys I love karate so much and I dont want to give up :'( but everyone at the match was sooo good and it was soo discouraging. I dont know what to do. Any words of advice/encouragement? Share your first tournament experience?? Can I still go ahead in Karate to maybe national level and someday even international?
US National Karate Team-- how do you join?
There is only one official US National Karate Team and that is through the United States National Karate Federation and their website is http://www.usankf.org/ and you need to make sure that you are a traditional Karate student studying under a real Sensei to be on the team. If your Sensei does not have proper credentials then you can attempt to make the team but will not be permitted to compete on it. In order to make the team you must be a member of the USANKF and the AAU (Amatuer Atheltic Union). You have to attend state level qualifiers to make it to regionals then nationals. In order to be selected you must be in the top 3 of your division at the end of the competitive year. Then they hold an event only for the top 3 competitors and if you place 1st you are invited to be on the team. 2nd place people are listed as alternates and get to train with the team. 3rd place finishers are not on the team but are listed as a back up in case an injury or something happens to the other two. You will also need to know proper traditional Karate Kata, not that flashy crap, as those are the only ones permitted to be performed at events. There is no way to make the true team if you are not involved with these groups, have proper lineage and credentials nor fail to compete in the events by their rules. I was on the US National Karate Team from 1989 to 1995 and have had two students on the team in the past. It is a great group of true traditional Karate students, Sensei and Masters. The skill level is the highest you will ever see and the competition is the toughest. Since your Sensei doesn't know about it I would doubt you are being trained in an authentic Karate system but you might be. One thing to note is that you will have to pay for all this yourself or get sponsors. Our country is the only one in the world where the Karate Ka are not paid to be on the team nor provided for. Do you have a website for your dojo? If you do post it and I can let you know if you are studying at a proper dojo and if your system would qualify for the team or not. Also there are at least six other teams out there that claim to be the same caliber but in reality they are all scams where you have to attend their events and pay for some vacation package that is a tournament. Those teams are a joke in all reality and are not legitimate. Some of those groups to avoid include WOMAA, WCOMA and others.
Should I take Tae Kwon Do or Karate?
First off, neither is better than the other. The biggest concern should be in having a good teacher. For safety sake alone, most all school should mandate that all glasses be removed during sparring. My Hapkido instructor is legally blind without his glasses, and even he takes his off when we spar. There should be no excuses in "needing" your glasses on all the time. Self defense is what the martial arts is all about. Without that all you have is a bunch of meaningless movements. People make fun of traditional styles for forms and drills looking like dance, but without application that is really all it makes it. If you're only looking to do the motions without any meaning, then places like the ATA or XMA is in all honestly what you're looking for. Taekwondo and Karate are originally self defense arts. The only way to not learn the self defense part is to find a bad school.
How do I enter the national team of karate?
Find a dojo and become a member. Ask your sensei for any local or regional tournaments coming up. Once you've started winning a lot of tournaments and getting higher DAN grades (black belt gradings) then you will be more than qualified to face the top competition in your country! Speak to your sensei and they will make sure something happens through connections.
Are there martial arts tournaments for adult beginners?
Thank you for the A2A.I competed in taekwondo in the Amateur Athleitc Union (AAU) as a beginner and intermediate color belt. They hold tournaments all over the United States, culminating in a national tournament each summer in Ft Lauderdale, Fl. Competition is held in forms, point and Olympic style sparring, breaking, and team forms. It usually costs about $75 to compete in two events at a tournament (plus a one time AAU registration fee- I think it is around $25). Divisions are formed by age and rank.I enjoyed competing, Frequently I had to go against younger students— there just weren’t that many adults that competed… usually I waited all day to compete and only got to do one match for forms and one sparring match. I’m not sure if that was rank specific or just age specific to this region. It was a fun experience that would be even better if more adults participated.
Do the martial arts have travel teams?
Yes, absolutely, and they come in many flavors. 1) Individual schools and organizations frequently put together travel teams for competition. At this level, they are roughly equivilant to most recreational league sports and tend to travel locally (1-2 states of area, depending on where they're located.) They compete at largely unrated tournaments, friendship events and the like. 2) Larger Organizations will put together multi-discipline competition teams. These teams are frequently seen at NASKA, SKIL and other "rated" events. If you've ever competed at a NBL (National Blackbelt League) event, you've seen at least a few of these teams. 3) There are corporately sponsored teams like Team Paul Mitchel: Team Paul Mitchell Karate . These teams are similar in nature to NASCAR cars in the sense that they're displaying corporate sponsorship and are part of the marketing efforts of the company they represent.
Do many people get seriously hurt while practicing Kyokushin karate?
If someone got injured, most likely it happened in a tournament. Sometimes people are kicked in the head real hard they pass out. Some opponents play rough and accidentally break the rule by punching to the head which may end up with more severe injuries. A friend of mine blocked incorrectly and his ring finger broke. Injuries are not something to really worry about in Kyokushin. A lot of schools, especially in western countries, uses padding when training sparring in the dojo. Even if no padding is used, you're probably not going to get severely injured. My karate school (Perguruan Mental Karate - Kyokushinkai Karate-do Indonesia) doesn't use padding in sparring training. Sometimes we are told to spar 100%, but usually sparring practices uses soft kumite, where students are supposed to control their strength so that they don't hit with 100% power. Sometimes we just get carried away. It is the Sensei's responsibility to stop the spar if it gets to that point. In 100% kumite practice, the Sensei usually stops it when one of the students is really overwhelmed. Kumite practice in the dojo is less rough because the goal is to learn the techniques instead of to simply win as in tournaments. We are also taught techniques to withstand pain and prevent injuries such as hardening muscles, guarding the head, switching legs to avoid mawashi-geidan geri, using knees or elbows to block kicks and hits, shouting when hit to lower pain, correct stretching before training, etc. We also do physical training like sit ups to strengthen abdominal muscles to take hits better. Before competitions, the Sensei suggests rubbing a cane up and down the shin bone to make it stronger (forms micro cracks in the bone and when it heals the bone gets thicker).