Karate-Do
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KARATE DO
First appearance in the Pan American Games: 1993
Prevented from carrying weapons by Japanese conquerors, in the eighteenth century, the inhabitants of the island of Okinawa started practicing self-defense methods with “empty hands”, meaning of the term karate in Japanese. The art spread throughout Japan after 1922, when Sensei Gichin Funakoshi, from the Martial Arts Okinawa Society, was invited by the Ministry of Education of the country to give a karate presentation in Tokyo. In order to be able to practice it as a competitive sport, simulated combat rules were formulated in which kicks and punches would not seriously hurt athletes and the kumite form was created (one to one combat). In kata (“form” in Japanese), participants, individually or in a group, seek to execute forms with a high degree of perfection.
Competition Itinerary
| Disciplines | Gender | July-August 2010 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | ||
| Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Tue | Fri | sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | ||
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Leyend
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Competition Day |
| R | Day of Rest |
| M/F | Masculine/Femenine |
| O/C | Opening/Closing Ceremony |
