Sydney Olympic Park Karate Although karate is yet to become registered as an olympic sport there is a bigpossibility it will feature in the olympics in the not too distant future. http://www.sydneyolympicpark.com.au/home_of_sport/sport_a-z/karate
Extractions: @import url(http://www.sydneyolympicpark.com.au/style_sheets/sport/design_css_14488); @import url(http://www.sydneyolympicpark.com.au/style_sheets/sport/design_css_14009); Home Contact Us Subscribe Search Sport Site Search - Sydney Olympic Park holds the world record for the larget netball audience and is home of the Sydney TAB Swifts Watch them take on the opposition in the 2005 Commonwealth Bank Trophy at the Sports Centre A B C ... W X Y Z Karate is one of the oldest and most effective means of self-defence known to man. It is an art of unarmed combat as well as an excellent method of achieving physical fitness and mental discipline. The sport of Karate consists of stretching, body conditioning, blocking, punching, striking, kicking, throwing and meditation. Although Karate is yet to become registered as an Olympic sport there is a big possibility it will feature in the Olympics in the not too distant future. Want to be part of one of the most effective martial art forms in the world, learn efficient and valuable self defence techniques and free your mind through meditation then Sydney Olympic Park Sports Halls is the place to fulfil such needs under the supervision and guidance of highly qualified instructors. For all information regarding court bookings or joining a Karate class today call 02 9763 0111 or visit Sydney Olympic Park Sports Halls Kids in the Park Program for the latest Karate news and activities held at Sydney Olympic Park. For more information call 02 9714 7888 or email
The Martial Arts: A Belt From The East It wasn t until 1964 that judo was accepted as an olympic sport. Today we knowkarate, aikido, kung fu, and many others as rigorous sports that demand great http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769878.html
Extractions: Reference Desk Atlas Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia ... Sports Section AP Photos China Kung fu Northern and southern Shaolin boxing Tai chi Japan Karate Judo Aikido Kendo Jiu jitsu Ninjutsu Korea Tae kwon do T'ang su do Hwarang do tori, attempts to divert harm from him- or herself without causing injury to his or her opponent, or uke . Working at arm's length, using a series of arm and wrist holds and getting momentum from the hips and legs, the tori attempts to throw the uke to the ground. The tori uke to redirect momentum, much like taking control of a runaway vehicle. To do this, the tori steers away oncoming strikes from his opponent. Aikido unites the mind, the body, and a source of energy from the mind called ki to accomplish its aim. Jiu jitsu is the Japanese samurai's unarmed system of fighting. It's practiced by the military as a means of self-defense. A combination of strength, balance, leverage, timing, and speed are used to defeat one's opponent. By using one's power or leverage on an elbow or wrist joint, the opponent can be held in a painful position and may give up. judokas
General Taekwondo Information At that time, Taekwondo was merely a Korean version of Shotokan karate. In the year 2000 taekwondo made its debute as an official olympic sport. http://www.barrel.net/history.php
Extractions: A short overview of the history of Taekwondo, ethics and etiquettes. The earliest records of Martial Arts practice in Korea date back to about 50 B.C. These earliest forms of korean martial arts are known as ' Taek Kyon '. Evidence that Martial Arts were being practiced at that time can be found in tombs where wall-paintings show two men in fighting-stance. Others reject this evidence and say that these men could be simply dancing. Back then, time there were three kingdoms: Koguryo (37 B.C. - 668 A.D.) Paekje (18 B.C. - 600 A.D.) Silla (57 B.C. - 935 A.D.) Silla unified the kingdoms after winning the war against Paekje in 660 A.D. and Koguryo in 668 A.D. The Hwa Rang Do played an important role at this unification. The Hwa Rang Do was an elite group of young noble men, devoted to cultivating mind and body and serve the kingdom Silla. The best translation for HwaRang would probably be "flowering youth" (Hwa ="flower", Rang="young man"). The HwaRang Do had an honor-code and practiced various forms of martial arts, including Taekyon and Soo Bakh Do. The old honor-code of the HwaRang is the philosophical background of modern Taekwondo. What followed was a time of peace and the HwaRang turned from a military organization to a group specialized in poetry and music. It was in 936 A.D. when Wang Kon founded the Koryo dynasty, an abbreviation of Koguryo. The name Korea is derived from Koryo.
Blog.jameshom.com: Karate Makes It To The Olympics...Almost So the IOC kicked softball and baseball out of the London Olympics. Instead,they looked at some other replacement sports, including karate. http://blog.jameshom.com/archives/000145.html
Extractions: miscellaneous ideas on martial arts, design, usability, writing, and just about anything else. Archive of content formerly at About.com's Martial Arts site. Mirror of the Usability Methods Toolbox, a site often used as a resource for university HCI and usability courses and professionals in the field. Main So the IOC kicked softball and baseball out of the London Olympics. Too bad, because it would've been fun to see Japan pull its all-stars out of the US league teams to field a kick-ass national squad. So much for the American pastime, huh? Instead, they looked at some other replacement sports, including karate. But in a political mess, here's what happened, according to AP: In a farcical display of bureaucracy, IOC members went through seven rounds of voting to decide which two of the five would-be Olympic sports should be put up for a vote to give them Olympic status. Having selected squash and karate, the members then overwhelmingly rejected their bids to join the Olympic program. The other three candidates were rugby sevens, golf, and roller sports. "Roller sports"? What the hell is that? Skateboarding? If so, that would put a different spin on the whiners who complained that baseball and softball were booted because they are "native American sports". Huh? I don't remember reading anything about the Navajo or Hopi doing batting practice, other than to whack those durn homesteaders.
Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... tips By Chris Gregor // usolympicteam.com // January 24, 2003 Visit USA Karate Elisa Au recently became only the second American to become karate World Champion. She captured the 60+ kg. kumite world title in Madrid, Spain to go along with gold at both the Pan American Championship and the 2003 US Nationals. Currently she lives in Hawaii, and she's a member of Honolulu's International Karate Federation. Not only does she train there, she also teaches some of the younger children the finer parts of karate. Au is one of three women representing the U.S. in karate at the Titan Games (2/13-2/15). She will be competing in the 60+ kg category where she will be taking on Mexico's Leticia Montoya.
Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... tips Taekwondo, Judo double up for Olympic Trials in San Jose // By Carla O'Connell // USOC Media Services // Dec. 17, 2003 Visit USA Taekwondo The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announced today that the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for judo and taekwondo will take place in a two-sport competition June 5 at the San Jose State Event Center. This first-of-its-kind, dual-discipline format will feature American athletes vying for the honor of representing the USA at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. In announcing that the Road to Athens would again take the U.S. judo and taekwondo hopefuls through San Jose, USOC Chief of Sport Performance Jim Scherr cites the strong support of the regions residents for Olympic sports, adding, We have great partners in the City of San Jose and the San Jose Sports Authority.
My Olympics Looking at the Athens 2004 olympics sports page, we see there are 36 sports Thai Kick Boxing Most martial arts are shoeins for olympic sports as they http://ldots.org/my_olympics.html
Extractions: With the 2004 Olympics about to begin, I have been thinking about the large number of sports that make up the Olympics. There are too many sports, and a lot of them are stupid. For example, baseball and softball are Olympic sports, and synchronised swimming is ridiculed because it is an art-form rather than a sport. So I have decided to get rid of the stupid sports from the Olympics, and I have decided that removing all sports that do not conform to the Olympic Ideals swifter, stronger, higher is a good place to start. I use these ideals as the basis of removing sports and adding new sports to my Olympic games. Before I start removing sports from my Olympics, I can simplify the Ideals by removing higher , as it is really similar to swifter. I can now throw out all sports that do not fit the two Ieals. However, this does not leave us many sports, so I will keep all sports that can be used to kill people, so I will rewrite the Ideals to read swifter, stronger deadlier
English Karate - News The 2012 London Olympics will have only 26 sports after baseball and softball were Rugby union sevens, squash, golf, karate and roller skating were all http://www.ekgb.org.uk/news.php
Extractions: home organisation regions membership services ... contact us August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 November 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 Squad training and Selections venue change OPEN SQUAD SESSIONS AND SELECTIONS FOR THE CADET AND JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Please accept this brief information about the next two open squad sessions and selections Due to a clash of bookings we have switched the venues for the next two sessions the dates remain unchanged and venues are as follows Saturday September 10th MIDLANDS VENUE Loughborough University, English Institute of Sport, Taekwondo Hall, Junction 23, M1. Saturday October 1st SOUTHERN VENUE Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenhan, Essex, Main A13 London road. Bookings forms will be sent to your Association and be posted on the website in the next couple of days.
Omsk Interview Modern taekwondo was designed to be an olympic sport since its inception in 1961 . Or they like a particular name taekwondo, karate, hapkido, kungfu, http://kimsookarate.com/articles/omsk-interview.html
Extractions: Omsk Interview The seeds for this interview were planted during Grandmaster Kim's 1994 visit to Russia and his participation in the All-Russia Karate Tournament in Omsk. Grandmaster's visit led to the publication in May of 2000 of the first Martial Arts book in Russian , the arts having been outlawed during communism. His book, combied with the reawakening interest in Martial Arts, led to this interview which became an article published in both the Evening Omsk (Siberia) and Sports Weekly newspapers. Foreword by Grandmaster Kim Soo A llow me to introduce myself. My name is Grandmaster Kim Soo, and I developed the International Chayon-Ryu Martial Art Association. Chayon-Ryu is the Korean term that means "The Natural Way." All things in the universe follow the natural path. If one follows this logical and reasonable path a correct result will be reached. However, if one commits a wrongful act, the result may eventually prove harmful. The same "natural way" philosophy also applies to the physical aspect of Chayon-Ryu. The student who lets his/her body flow naturally through a technique is far less likely to incur an injury. Furthermore, power generated from natural movements is far greater than from contrived moves. Humans designed martial art, therefore, we must move as humans, not as animals. Many people talk about tigers, cranes, snakes, dragons and any number of fanciful creatures to make their system seem mysterious and secretive. This trickery is used to draw people in, but this teaching is false since humans cannot move like any of these creatures. People with no martial art foundation find this fantasy more exciting than plain and simple truth.
TaeKwonDo Times News The future of the karate and the other sports in the Olympics will be decided atthe 117th IOC Session, to be held next July in Singapore. http://www.taekwondotimes.com/news.html
Extractions: USA Taekwondo female team members are finweight, Taran Ogata (Sacramento, Calif./Sacramento City College), flyweight Elisha Voren (Loxahatchee, Fla./University of Miami), bantamweight Eleni Koutsilianos (Astoria, N.Y./York College), featherweight Stephanie Beckel (Miami, Fla./Pikes Peak Community College), welterweight Elizabeth Shakhnovich (Columbus, Ohio/Harvard University), lightweight LaShondra Rawls (Clinton, Md./Prince Georges Community College/Remarck), middleweight Christina Park (New York, N.Y./Lake Washington Technical College/West Side) and heavyweight Lauren Cahoon (Miami, University).
Olympic Committee Honors Lopez's Taekwondo To Remain an olympic Sport. Tae Kwon Do Remains olympic Sport in 2008 Sparring Gear Package $119.95 karate Sparring Gear Package $109.95 http://www.challengermartialarts.com/CMANLlopez.htm
Extractions: RISE TO THE CHALLENGE ! U.S. Olympic Committee Honors Diana and Steven Lopez Diana and Steven Lopez (Sugar Land, Texas), sister and brother, both won gold medals (featherweight and welterweight, respectively) at the Taekwondo World Championships in Madrid, Spain, April 13-17. Along with their brother, Mark (featherweight), the Lopez family made sports history in Madrid by taking three gold medals. Never before have three siblings won world titles at the same event in any sport. The siblings are all coached by their eldest brother, Jean. It also marks the first time that a brother and sister have been honored as USOC Athletes of the Month for the same month.
San Jose Sports Authority - [ Press/Media ] The United States olympic Committee (USOC) announced today that the US olympic line of olympic sports the sports Authority has hosted, says Dean Munro, http://www.sjsa.org/aboutus/2003/121703-martialarts.asp
Extractions: The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announced today that the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for judo and taekwondo will take place in a two-sport competition June 5 at the San Jose State Event Center. This first-of-its-kind, dual-discipline format will feature American athletes vying for the honor of representing the USA at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Jim Scherr Bill Rosenberg Tickets for the June 5 U.S. Olympic Judo and Taekwondo Team Trials are expected to go on sale March 1. "The Trials will be a great event for the city – another in a long line of Olympic sports the Sports Authority has hosted,” says Dean Munro , San Jose Sports Authority Executive Director. “Moreover, given the popularity of the martial arts in Northern California, the event will be tremendously successful."
Sports Education Leadership Come and learn about Sport Tae kwon do, one of two martial arts included as anofficial olympic sport in the 2000 olympics. Basic kicking techniques used in http://education.unlv.edu/SEL/PA/martial_arts.htm
Extractions: Home Adventure Sports Cardiovascular Fitness Individual Sports ... Sports Education Leadership Students will learn to use Judo for self defense, throwing and falling techniques, pinning techniques, locking techniques, choking techniques, and some Japanese terminology. The fundamental skills of kicking, punching, grappling, ground techniques, throwing, chokes, and arm locks will be covered The art of Judo teaches balance, coordination, timing and most importantly, respect for other people Come and learn about Sport Tae kwon do, one of two martial arts included as an official Olympic sport in the 2000 Olympics. Basic kicking techniques used in Sport Tae kwon do competition are taught, as well as traditional forms and stances. Class is dynamic and upbeat, and students will get a good workout." This class is for beginning students. The class will also cover the fundamentals of Self Defense along with a medium level of cardiovascular workouts. Students will learn; Self Defense, kicks, hand strikes, blocks, stances, tecqeuk (forms) 1 & 2, one-steps, strength, balance, coordination, flexibility, awareness, and self confidence. Prerequisite: PEX 113 Advanced kicking techniques used in Sport Tae kwon do competition are taught, as well as traditional forms and stances. Class is dynamic and upbeat, and students will get a good workout. The student begins to work towards and achievement of forms, specialty movements, sparing, and training for sports competition. Students will have the opportunity to obtain rank (belts) promotion through the World Tae Kwon Do Federation.
HickokSports.com - Martial Arts Glossary (Judo and karate); hira basami A strike in which the first knuckle of the first It has been an olympic sport since 1964. Japanese for gentle way. http://www.hickoksports.com/glossary/gmartialarts.shtml
2012 Olympic Programme However, sailing must continue to enhance itself as an olympic sport. World Squash and karate were shortlisted for consideration on the 2012 Programme, http://www.sailing.org/default.asp?PID=15381
OSU Juniors Participate In Martial Arts Competition Probably better shape than any other sport. karate is already an olympic sport.Byler says that those who think fighting is only about violence are http://www.ocolly.com/new_ocollycom/new_site/read_story.php?a_id=27298
SignOnSanDiego Martial Arts When people think martial arts, karate is the first thing that comes to mind . Similar to wrestling in its use of throws, Judo became an olympic sport in http://www.signonsandiego.com/citysearch/feature/412/?cslink=cs_generic_4_1
Extractions: ASSOCIATED PRESS 9:58 a.m. September 22, 2004 The International Olympic Committee said Wednesday it notified those five sports' governing bodies that they will be "studied further" as part of a review of the Summer Games' competition schedule. The IOC is assessing the 28 sports on the program of last month's Athens Olympics to determine whether changes should be made. IOC president Jacques Rogge repeatedly has said that sports only will be added if others are dropped. The maximum will stay at 28 sports, with around 10,500 athletes. In Athens, the IOC formally accepted the criteria for judging which sports should be on the program. Among the key points are global participation, spectator attendance, media interest, the sport's anti-doping policies, and whether the sport features the world's best athletes in the Olympics. Removal of a sport requires a vote of the full IOC membership. The last sport dropped from the Summer Olympics was polo in 1936.
Procedures For The Vote On The Olympic Programme For The 2012 In Athens, all 28 olympic sports were part of the olympic programme. In orderfor an olympic sport to be in the olympic programme, a simple majority is http://en.beijing-2008.org/68/08/article211650868.shtml