Australian Traditional Karate Championships 2019 highlights

Some short clips of some of the divisions of the 2019 Australian Trad Karate Championships.
For adult,s the bunkai event is about tradition of the art, it is not a sports version with acrobatics/high kicks. The definition of bunkai practicality stems from evidence based statistics of street violence as described in the textbook Karate technique selection & Street Fighting Statistics & Medical Outcomes & relates to the Okinawan development of the kata. However, almost if the opposite is the kids bunkai events where we expect a "sports" version of the bunkai which does not emphasize head butts, groin, knee strikes etc. For kids, this is for obvious psychological reasons.
Kumite is Ippon Shobu, as the saying goes:
"In Karate or a street altercation, just as in life, you get once chance."
As a traditional tournament we base our kumite bouts on the time tested unchanged rules of Ippon Shobu Kumite, which originate from the 1950s (made most famous by the JKA and the All Japan Championships of that era). Ippon Shobu enables an opponent to end a bout with one point Ippon (or two 'half-points' Waza-ari at the most) and emphasizes this key point of karate's philosophy, rather than the more sports-karate oriented rule sets which span bouts over 6 to 8 points.
Tournament webpage:
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