Phantasmatic Posted February 19, 2002 Posted February 19, 2002 What is the big difference between Traditional and Non-Traditional karate? I am asking this because my sensei has gone for a trip so I cannot go to the dojo for a while and ask him! _________________ "If you have job, you wear the pants!" [ This Message was edited by: Phantasmatic on 2002-02-19 10:31 ] "Which one is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi
AnonymousOne Posted February 19, 2002 Posted February 19, 2002 Thats a hard one. Today people refer to traditional Karate as the non-contest side of it. But the Okinawan Schools would say they are more traditional than Japanese Schools. Seeing Karate has evolved so much how can we say we are doing the traditional things? We are certainly not practising karate in the tradition of say Sagukawa did in the 1700's 7th Dan ChidokaiA true combat warrior has to be hard as nails in mind, body and soul. Warriors are action takers and not action fakers. If you are cruising, make time for losing
Cory Reynolds Posted February 19, 2002 Posted February 19, 2002 A couple of huge differences that I can point out are that sport karate (non traditional) and traditional karate competition is vastly different. Traditional tends to be full contact without pads while sport karate often is light contact with pads. Also, non traditional karate schools sometimes even create their own forms to teach and ditch the old ones completely. Wise man once said "he who has big mouth has much room for foot."
Phantasmatic Posted February 19, 2002 Author Posted February 19, 2002 Thank You both very much for the info! "Which one is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi
spinninggumby Posted February 19, 2002 Posted February 19, 2002 Like Anonymous One said, it is hard to draw the line between 'traditional' and 'nontraditional/modern', although maybe you could speculate that perhaps there is a definite line when people participate in tournaments and wear those big Smurf shoes and helmets and those big chest thingies that say 'hit me'. But 500 years down the road, who says that tournament karate won't be seen as 'traditional' karate. I think this applies to every other style as well. What is seen as traditional or old-school changes because obviously new ideas, practices, etc. become old as they uh, get older. It was my understanding that the roundhouse kick (mawashi geri, dolyo chagi, cetan tui, mantela/misteka, depending on your style) did not exist for a long long time in all styles until somebody (I'm not sure who, I will have to look it up) came up with it one day and people start liking it and capitalizing and refining its effectiveness. The 'traditional guys' back then thought that this was 'nontraditional', but now we have a 'traditional' roundhouse kick versus a new one (usually by those damn WTF guys who try to make everything complicated by modifying everything for tournament sparring ) but anyways yea that's all I wanted to say haha 'Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines'William Parcher, 'A BEAUTIFUL MIND'
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