This point sparring is really silly. It also breeds bad habits that won't serve you well in a real fight. The JKA should adopt the MMA model of timed rounds. They could still keep this point sparring system as a stepping stone to full contact.
Those guys are hitting and it’s obvious a point is not awarded unless it is capable of causing damage and did in this contest, I disagree of breeding any bad habits, it actually causes supreme defense in order not to get hit have a point given to the opponent, obviously you have never entered the ring
@@kennethrogers1129 I'm afraid it's not always obvious when a point has been scored. This is one of the big secrets about JKA tournaments (actually, all Karate tournaments that use point sparring). And I have been in the ring many times. I'm speaking as someone who's done JKA Karate for more than 3 decades.
Kyokushin is great but Shotokan is about distancing management, precision and power. So you don't need to expose yourself to a crazy exchange just to make the crowd happy, it is not the point of Shotokan competition. You have to be patient, find the right timing to connect a powerfull blow that is enough to finish the fight. In competition, we have to control the strikes to the head to avoid brain damage but the judges decides if the technique was good enough to score a Ippon. Ippon in JKA represents Knockout. For untrained eyes it can be confuse but for experienced praticioners is possible to indentify a controlled technique that could end the fight if it was delivered with the intention of knockout.
@@Philmoscowitz It is called Kickboxing. We can fight in Kickboxing If we want, don't need to change Karate tournament rules, just add some boxing cross training.
@@TiagoPortas I disagree. If you mostly train for tournaments where the referee breaks up the fight after every point, then that's the situation you're training for, not for an actual fight. Now of course MMA and Kick Boxing style tournaments are not real fights, but they're much closer to them than what we have in Karate today.
@@Philmoscowitz that's why i said to add some boxing cross training. You think in Karate we train with a referee in the dojo stoping the sparring all the time? Of course not, we train contínuos sparring, Zanshin (contínuos mind) is a Very important principle in Karate and even in competition you have to be aware all the time because the fight only stop when judge say Yame, otherwise you have to keep fighting. In Karate we have the best sense of timing, distancing management and foot work that are Very usefull for Full contact fights.
