Karate isn't in Olymphics.. How come.. This 9 year old Karate Girl is trying to achieve that Goal, will she success?

Good as the little girl is you can still see much effort is spent on performing and presenting the form, more effort than probably learning how to apply the moves.

I am with Kokoro and Jas Key. Having a sport (which Karate originally really is not in the first place) in the Olympics and jumping through political hoops and rules by people who have never even set foot in a dojo is not a blessing and does nothing to further the martial art.

Why do people make it a goal for their training? I had a friend who did this 20 years ago. He is now in his 30s and of course never made it but he did go train in one of the Olympic villages with all these high tech machines and doctors and physical trainers and coaches monitoring his progress, I was astounded. There was nothing amateur about it. Why did he do it? It was an 'easy' (for him since he had access to the fanciest training and trainers and sponsors to pay his bills) dream of gaining fame and an easy life doing what he loved. Of course it didn't pan out and now with no other education he is struggling in many areas.

Do I think she will make it to the Olympics? No, I think there are too many people in Karate who want to be chief and not enough Indians. I doubt very much they will ever get their act together and agree to bring it all under one umbrella. Too many egos and noone giving in. Having watched my friend grow up practically raised in the martial arts and witnessed all the politics involved,...yeah naaaw, that's not going to happen any time soon, within the next decade or two. If it ever does, she will probably be too old. But I do think she has a better chance at making a career of it doing advertisements and getting her face and skill out there. She'll probably end up making movies if she hasn't started that already.

There are four fighting sports in Olympics: boxing, wrestling, fencing, and taekwondo. All are required to have a non-country, international liaison, with an established IOC presence in a certain number of countries, and no single country a dominant winner. Also, the sport can't be similar to another. If Karate were to enter the Olympics, it would have to modernize itself, establish a federation not tied to any government, and align itself so that it is country-neutral. At present, all of the Karate organizations are too fractured with politics to do much. Also, to lay people, Taekwondo and Karate are the same thing. Karate will for a long time spend time trying to distinguish itself from Taekwondo.

Having said that, Taekwondo is on the verge of being dismissed as a sport, simply because the Koreans keep winning. They are desperately trying to spread the style in as many countries as possible, and that seems to be paying off. Several African and Middle-Eastern countries are becoming respectable forces to deal with: Iran, India, Saudi Arabia come to mind. South America is also becoming a strong force, helping to level off the playing field from the dominant Koreans and Americans.

Olympics these days are less about technique and more about politics. Taekwondo didn't get into the Olympics without a lot of palm greasing, you can bet the farm on that. At the same time, the style has changed into a respectable style of self-defense to crap exhibition sport. It is not a martial art, it has nothing to do with self-defense, and several important aspects of the style are not part of the program in any way, shape, or form. Grappling, weapons, self-defense are gone. Even breaking isn't in there.

Once politics takes over Karate, Karate will become another crap exhibition sport. IMHO the Olympics is responsible for the black belt mills, kiddie black belts, and, between these three events in Taekwondo, are the worst things ever to happen to it.

Karate is almost certain to added to the Olympics in 2020, just as judo joined the Olympics in 1964. They happen to be partial to both sports in Tokyo. Yeah, maybe it's much like TKD and their is lots of politics in karate organizations. However the Japanese get to choose five new sports for 2020, and karate is way, way, more popular than sqaush in Japan. My guess is the rules will much like the rules used for high school karate in Japan. Hence people from different ryu should be able to compete on a even playing field. Karatedo is shinbudo by definition, so I don't see why anyone should be prissy about it being a sport. If people want to practice budo with no competition, there is always koryubudo. The other sports that Japan is pushing for are skateboarding, surfing and baseball/softball.

Karate is not in the Olympics mainly because it is not a sport. There are those that teach it as a sport. But that is not the intent in karate to compete. it is to learn to defend yourself and others. it is for survival(life preservation).

She will not succeed in being in the Olympic for karate because that is not an option. It will not become an Olympic sport anytime too soon most of us are glad about it. The Olympics already have TKD. Because it is closely related to karate they will not allow karate in. They are too similar. The rules prohibit this.

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This girl is a performer. She is not a black belt. She hasn't reached the age in which a person can even be considered for a black belt. She does not have the ability to defend herself from the average adult. At this point she has only been able to mimic the movements contained in a kata.

I hopes she continues to learn and begin to understand the meanings behind the techniques. I hopes she learns the application and how to apply them against an attacking person or persons.

First, with TKD in Olympics already I really do not see the Olympics committee okaying karate sparring in due to the closeness of the arts. You can argue that they are different, but when you are comparing hockey to marathon to cycling to TDK to Karate you can see how close those two events are.

I doubt they will do a form competition for Olympics neither since there are so many different branches of karate with their own forms. The Karate community would have to come together and agree to either adopt one style's form for being superior to others(not going to happen in million years) or they will have to come together and create new forms that contain elements of each style essentially watering down the styles for commercialism. Then there is the fact that this form focus will start to water down the art and people will focus on performance over martial practice... Trust me a martial arts not getting into Olympics is a blessing. Having practiced three martial arts that are in the Olympics I can see how the Olympics has been slowly making the arts less effective in order to make it a better sport to watch.

I honestly believe that the reason karate is not in the Olympics is because it is considered to be too similar to Taekwondo which has been in the Olympics for decades. Olympic Taekwondo has a rather "limited audience" compared to other sports in the Olympics. In addition, it would take a lot of time, money, and effort to "standardize" international rules for "Olympic Karate." I don't see Olympic officials being particularly interested in adding a sport to the Olympic games that's similar to a sport that already exists and gets modest viewership at best. In addition, Olympic Karate would have difficulty attracting sponsors for all of the reasons I've mentioned. A number of Chinese people wanted "Olympic Kung Fu" at the Olympic games in Beijing in 2008, but that plan never came to fruition.

I dont think I would ever want karate in the Olympics, It would turn into tkd and be flooded with even more mcdojo's

The main reason its not and never will be in the Olympics is because you need a single governing body for the event, And karate doesn't have one, they have hundreds of them. Each with their own ideas on what karate is.

That is one thing about the Koreans they organized it very well.

Karate isn't suppose to be a sport.

I'm sick of people watering the martial arts down to use for competition as the be-all end-all result of training. You're suppose to train to defend yourself, not to win matches.

Karate is still a sport technically......judo is in it

Its not a sport.