OLYMPIC KARATE NOW

[jedimc]

Hi i dont know if everyone knows about this but there is a site were you say what karate has done for you and your life and they will send all the replies (or best im not sure) to the Olympics Commitiee and see if Karate will be a olympic sport, its the WKF and here is the website.

 

http://portal.enfoque5.com/karateolimpico/ingles/index.php

 

http://portal.enfoque5.com/karateolimpico/ingles/imagenes/banners/micro-banner-karate-Ing.gif

[Theman]

I visited and entered the site. I hope we can make it happen!

 

Anyone else reading this thread please do show your support.

[Chirath]

I submitted. Good luck getting the names.

[jedimc]

I actually submitted a few weeks back but that was before I was a member of this forum, but it would be good to see karate matches at the olympics, the problems probaly is that there is so many styles of karate but I dont know how they would work it out, imagine The gold Karate VS the gold Taekwondo now that would be a good match.

[Rhino]

I agree with you there jedmic! I tried tkd after I moved and had to leave my dojo, no karate where I live now. TKD is nothing compared to Shorinryu!

[Rhino]

I just sent my statement in, going to check my email now to confirm it. EVERYONE should go do this.

[Shorinryu Sensei]

Personally, I'm not going to do it.

 

Why?

 

Look at what the Olympics has done to both judo and TKD since it was introduced into the Olympics. Combat judo schools are few and far between, as it is primarily a sport now. And Olympic TKD? What a joke if you ask me.

 

I would be afraid of karate, whichever system they chose to form their rules around, would suffer more than it would benefit from an introduction into the Olympics.

[Chirath]

I know, Judo and TKD in the olympic look like a pansy's game with ineffective street purposes. It gives a bad name to these arts. However it still would be more interesting than no Karate in the olympics at all.

[jedimc]

I think karate allready has a bad name for itself , if I mention that I do karate at school, everyone at my school would think that im wasting my time and training with 2 year olds, because tv and hollywood have made karate look bad, but if said i am learning jujitsu then wow man that sounds pretty good watever it is, they dont understand what it is because tv hasnt had enough time to wreck the art.

 

Even if the olympics wreck karate theres always gonna be some people in the world that will say that karate looked pretty good at the olympics and they will probaly join a dojo becuase of it.

[longarm25]

what ever