Karate question

**LLL** · Posted On: 3/11/2004 3:00pm

Originally posted by JurassicWarrior
There's probably hundreds of styles of karate, okinawan styles include goju, Uechi, shorin, to name a few. Japanese syles include wado, shotokan, seidokan. The US has its' own forms of karate, although in the US it seems like they'll call any style karate.

Thank you, sensei.

**liuzg150181** · Posted On: 3/12/2004 7:31am

Might as well add MMA tournament into the Olympics~~~!!!

**Osu** · Posted On: 3/12/2004 7:34am

Like I said about K-1: that would mean a tournament for different sports in one tournament. That's not the purpose of the Olympics. They want to have championships in (popular) existing sports.

**Te No Kage!** · Posted On: 3/12/2004 7:55am

they could always go back to pancration, what's not olympic about that?

*now that would be something that I would watch

**Osu** · Posted On: 3/12/2004 8:04am

They used to kill eachother in pancration, I don't think that will be brought back in the Olympics. They could add it again under current MMA rules though. But I don't know whether the sport's popularity is big enough.

**Ronin** · Posted On: 3/12/2004 8:08am

You need an organized and more importantly, recognised governing body, for ANY sport to be come an olympic event.

**Osu** · Posted On: 3/12/2004 8:11am

That's my point.

**Ronin** · Posted On: 3/12/2004 8:17am

And you will never get that from most MA.
That is why karate is NOt an olympic event yet and TKD is.
The only way to do it is to organise as many as possible under 1 organization, and that goes for jujutsu too.
Although I think ot would be easier to modify the rules for Judo than it would be to "introduce" jujutsu into the olympics.
As for pankration, the combination of striking and grappling would be great to see in the olympics, BUT I don't ever see it happening they way it is now, there aren't even any "official" rules for pankration that are recognised by ALL.

**Osu** · Posted On: 3/12/2004 8:43am

Originally posted by ronin69
And you will never get that from most MA.
That is why karate is NOt an olympic event yet and TKD is.
The only way to do it is to organise as many as possible under 1 organization, and that goes for jujutsu too.
Although I think ot would be easier to modify the rules for Judo than it would be to "introduce" jujutsu into the olympics.
As for pankration, the combination of striking and grappling would be great to see in the olympics, BUT I don't ever see it happening they way it is now, there aren't even any "official" rules for pankration that are recognised by ALL.

Yep, I agree with all of it.

**liuzg150181** · Posted On: 3/13/2004 9:23am

Originally posted by Osu
They used to kill eachother in pancration, I don't think that will be brought back in the Olympics. They could add it again under current MMA rules though. But I don't know whether the sport's popularity is big enough.

The popularity would surely be high,especially from coffin makers~~~