kata, the soul of karate, a container full of information for the practitioner, reduced to a ridiculous ballet without meaning to entertain an ignorant audience that applauds what they don't even understand.
@@artimarzialiefitness-aless6034friend, like it or not, Kiyuna is 4 times WKF champion and the only male kata Olympic champion. By the way, talking about your original comment. Yes, I agree with you that kata has lost its value, it is no more about the techniques... A lot of kata players don't even know what they're doing, they just perform it, meaningless. Buuuut Kiyuna isn't the best example of that situation lol. He is a okinawan karateka, taught by Tsuguo Sakumoto, and a traditional kata player. I know, he doesn't seems not even a bit traditional, but thrust me, that way you've saw he performing the kata is only for competitions, search he doing a kata nowadays for example, it really even reminds me the old Tsuguo Sakumoto performances!! And, yes, I also hate people applauding something they don't even understand. Jesus, there's so many hard moments to applaud, so many extremely complicated transitions, but people don't understand how hard it is. God damnit!! If they don't understand, they, could atleast, only applaud at the end, but nooooo, EVERY SINGLE KIAI, JESUS!!!!!
@@PetrusNicolai Champion of what? Champion for whom? If karate has failed as a martial art it is because millions of practitioners believe that the masters of the past were circus choreographers and not warriors. And that they created karate just to entertain the public. If various combat disciplines have been born in recent years it is because karate has lost its martial soul. Not even those who should protect it, guard it, and teach it as they originally did are no longer able to do so. And the only way to keep it alive is to offer it as a recreational activity or to win medals at the Olympics. Karate no longer exists as a martial art. But to convince the masses that he is still alive, they organize tourist trips to Okinawa and issue belts and diplomas.
