Why is the 2020 Olympics featuring only true karate as in Shotokan, Shudokan, Wado, etc. rather than Tike won do. True karate is brutal.?

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All 'sport' martial arts are 'watered down' versions of the systems they're descended from. That isn't to say that the competitors can't get hurt from punches or kicks, but rather, that a referee quickly 'stops the action' to either reward points, prevent excessive injury to an athlete, break up a scuffle, or to disqualify one of the competitors. Any karate event at a future Olympic games would also have rules in place to minimize injuries to the competitors and ensure 'order' in each match. There isn't enough 'difference' between Taekwondo and most traditional Japanese karate systems to warrant 'scrapping Taekwondo' in favor of traditional karate. In fact, Taekwondo was originally Shotokan karate taught to Koreans during the latter part of Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula. Since most 20th Koreans 'despised' their Japanese occupiers they refused to use Japanese words to describe the martial arts that they learned and co-opted from the Imperial Japanese.

Simple reason.

The 2020 Olympics will be in Tokyo, Japan.

Japan is the "birth place" of Karate.

Just like taekwondo made its Olympic debut as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

It depends on what do you mean by true Karate.

The original Karate, which logically can be claimed to be the actual one, was completely different both in practice and in ideology than many people might think that it was. In a matter of fact it can be claimed to be the antithesis of what many people might think that it was, and that a lot of the practices and ideas of the ones that have misunderstood it, to be the ones of a fist or a mouth bushi, as they were described in the original Karate culture, and not of a gentleman bushi, which is someone that understands the actual Karate.

I will elaborate a bit and give also some material to check. Karate was practiced by the Yukatchu, which was the intellectual class of Okinawa. Okinawa is a small island. Small islands typically have a relax type of culture, where everyone knows everyone and the doors are wide open. People tend to be hospitable and proud in the good sense of the word. Karate was practiced privately and not publicly and the ones that were teaching it they were teaching Kata and the ideology (not a cult, or a dogmatic one, but a positively natural one adapted to each person) of Karate. I can elaborate in this, but since this can be found in the letter of Sokon Matsumura, the readers can just check that.

There was no sport/sparring in Karate, both for practical and ideological reasons. There were no uniforms, belts and ranking. Typical exercises would include Kata, moves that are in the Kata and striking the makiwara. Each person was developing his own Karate in a sense. Both exercises and ideology, were guidelines in a sense as well.

Taekwondo (it's proper spelling) will be at the 2020 Olympics.

What "true karate" is, is a matter of debate. How "brutal" it is varies due to format. Kyokushin competitions are more brutal than Olympic TKD, but Olympic TKD is full-contact, unlike the most common point-karate formats, and results in more knockouts, which is more "brutal" by any definition I can think of.