Interesting Challenge to all Karate styles

[Eager To Learn]

Osu,

I saw the below posted on another forum and thought it seemed quite a bold challenge. I assume its genuine !? but wondered if anyone had seen this before or had any views and or comments ???

http://www.nettisivu.org/lelu/International+Karate+Challenge.html

Osu

[Throwdown0850]

in my honest opinion, its sounds ridiculous.. Trying to prove a "superior" style of Karate? once again, its not the style, its how its taught.

[Eager To Learn]

"Trying to prove a "superior" style of Karate? once again, its not the style, its how its taught."

Totally agreed, I think its quite disrespectful to Karate in general to be honest as from the little I know I assumed "we" were all part of the same "family" and should therefore be respectful to one another .

As opposed to challenging each others styles.

[Throwdown0850]

"Trying to prove a "superior" style of Karate? once again, its not the style, its how its taught."

Totally agreed, I think its quite disrespectful to Karate in general to be honest as from the little I know I assumed "we" were all part of the same "family" and should therefore be respectful to one another .

As opposed to challenging each others styles.

exactly..

[Lachrymosa]

I think the challenge is meant to be disrespectful to hit the ego of the grand masters so they will fight against him.

If he want to test his "superior" fighting skill he can just go into any competitions.

As Throwdown0850 and Eager To Learn said, I do not think one style is better than other, its either better teacher or better practitioner.

[Zanshin]

Big alarm bells are ringing in my head here!

Don't like the approach or the content. It goes against everything that karate/budo stands for.

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough?

I think it is a Finnish website as far s I can see, that perhaps does not translate too well.

I guess we give them the benefit of the doubt, but to be honest, I can save everybody's time really as I know who the best Karate-ka in the world is...?

[ps1]

Ok. I'm in! Unfortunately, there's no way for me to contact them. It just issues the challenge and lets it stand. No info on date, time, place or how to register. I also couldn't find the rules. Also, how are the 5 representatives selected...solely on the basis of being Japanese? Interesting. It actually seems pretty dumb in my opinion. A publicity stunt that can never be verified or disproved.

[Lachrymosa]

Ok. I'm in! Unfortunately, there's no way for me to contact them. It just issues the challenge and lets it stand. No info on date, time, place or how to register. I also couldn't find the rules. Also, how are the 5 representatives selected...solely on the basis of being Japanese? Interesting. It actually seems pretty dumb in my opinion. A publicity stunt that can never be verified or disproved.

In the last paragraph he explain how to contact him by selecting the "yhteydenotto" link at the bottom and the page and he tells you what to put in which box.

I agree that there is not much information on the challenge itself but the "*" next to the rules without any explanation anywhere is strange.

[Shotokan-kez]

What a joke! I agree its probably a publicity stunt, i also agree that no style is better than the other...even if this Sensei does defeat another master in fighting, that wouldn't deter me from a certain style.

[bushido_man96]

I thought that it was a nice touch that the challenger had to foot the bill. Nice touch.

Maybe we could get GSP to take up the challenge??