In competitive sport, a player’s ability to immediately perceive and react to offensive and defensive situations impacts on success. While skilled performers demonstrate a superior ability to pick up crucial cues from the visual information of an opponent’s or teammate’s position and posture, perception of one’s own position and posture may also be important for advanced performance. This study...

Background. Osteoarthritis (OA) ranks fifth in the most disabling conditions. Karate is an unarmed combat sport that uses hands and feet to deliver and block blows. The karate movements, such as high load and frequent flexion and extension of the knee, make the athletes susceptible to knee injuries and progress to knee OA (KOA). Objectives. The study aims to address the prevalence and risk fac...

92 Hansraj Riteesh Bookun is currently a Vascular Surgery Registrar at the University Hospital Geelong in Australia . He will be formally starting his training under the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in February 2016 at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. His other interests include automotive racing and karate. He has spent most of his teenage years actively competing in karate but has now ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of adding a high-intensity intermittent session twice a week during a 7-week karate training (KT) on markers of aerobic and anaerobic metabolisms in elite class karate athletes. Two groups were studied: a KT group (n=8, age 20.1+/-0.9 years, 70.0+/-8.8 kg) that followed traditional KT, and a group that followed combined traditional karate and...

In a randomized controlled trial, we investigated the effects of karate versus a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention on well-being and cognitive functioning in older adults. Fifty-five adults (52-81 years old) participated in twice-weekly karate versus MBSR sessions or no training for 8 weeks. In pre- and postassessments, subjective well-being, health, cognitive functioning, ...

In order to be successful in karate, it is necessary to apply the highest punch impulse at impact while maintaining dynamic body stability during the entire action. Here we test two different techniques to execute a specific karate punch and we compare expert and novice performances to explore the punch efficacy at different skill levels. Each participant, standing on a force platform, was aske...

the aim of the present investigation was to determine the effect of two karate techniques on the reduction in stereotypic behaviours in three 5-year-old boys with autistic disorders. the study included three boys with autistic disorders. a singlesubject method with a-b-a design was used. participants of the present study were required to exercise two karate techniques (zuki and mae-geri) for 12...

KARATE TOURNAMENTS CONSIST OF TWO EQUALLY IMPORTANT KARATE DISCIPLINES: the kumite and kata competitions. Due to being based both on the distinctive selection of movement techniques and their kinematic and kinetic patterns, we hypothesized that the elite kumite and kata competitors could differ regarding their anthropometric and physical performance profiles. Thirty-one senior male karate compe...