Sports Japan - 2013/02/03

Feb. 3, Sun.

Visiting Teikyo University Karate Team
[Focus]
1. Teikyo University Karate Club, Number One in Japan
The Teikyo University Karate Club has won the women's kumite and kata titles and men's kata title at the Japan University Karatedo Championships last year. That wasn't all. Its strength was evident at the All-Japan Championships in last December, too, with Teikyo Old Girl Miki Kobayashi, for example, battling for first place against third-year student Kayo Someya. We leave the studio this week to visit the university's new practice hall, which the club is using from this year, observing the discipline of the men and women as they go through their basic motions and also practice with rubber tubes and mitts. Discover all about this strict training with its goal of perfect unity of mind and skill.
2. Kime and Tome - Women's Kumite at The All-Japan Karatedo Championships
The All-Japan Karatedo Championships to decide the country's top karateka again produced a showdown in the women's kumite division between older and younger athletes from the same university club, just as they had in the previous year. Miki Kobayashi, herself a Teikyo student until the previous year, had won the last two championships in a row and was now working there as a coach while carrying on with her training. Third-year student Kayo Someya had just won the world 68 kilogram title in November. They knew each other perfectly and both attacked hard, landing high thrusts on each other almost simultaneously. The referee, though, judged that Kobayashi had got in first. Someya attacked furiously from there but Kobayashi withstood the storm and secured her third consecutive title by that single point. We also see their very different faces away from the bouts and have their manager, Masao Kagawa, explain the difference between the tome and kime blows in karate. We see, too, ho w a kime blow is used against a moving opponent and Thane, on the receiving end of the kime, realizes the importance of adhering to the basics.
3. Kata is the Basis of Karate
We tend to think of karate in terms of the kumite - the bouts - but it also has another competitive discipline called kata, a practice attacking routine against an imaginary opponent. There is both an individual event and a team competition for three-member teams and the judges score for understanding, concentration, balance and power. It might look like theater but it anticipates all practical moves and entails countless patterns depending on how the imaginary opponent moves. This becomes the foundation for kumite and it is said that all karate is encapsulated by kata.
[Guest]
Thane Camus

TV personality. This is his seventh appearance on the program. Has experience of practicing karate, kendo and also Ryukyu Kobudo. Has a strong interest in Japanese martial arts and kyogen theater.
Masao Kagawa

Coach of Teikyo University Karatedo Club and also Japan National Team. Japan's foremost karate coach, he also commentates on the All-Japan Karatedo Championships on TV.

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