KarateTips
Yellow Belt
Joined: 30 Jul 2002
Posts: 27
Location: California
Styles: Shito Ryu
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 Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 12:03 pm Post subject: Money in Karate? |
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The recent 2003 US Open in Las Vegas had prize money for all of the adult events... $2000 for first place in most events and $3000 first place in the men and women's open kumite.
World Champion, Elisa Au, won both her weight division and the women's open... an excellent achievement... and what's more, $5000 for the day.
There were individual competitors (and teams) from Japan, Azerbaijan, Norway, Morocco, USA and more. No doubt the prize money is quite an incentive for people to enter, but it could be argued that this takes away from the spirit of karate-do. What are your thoughts?
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omnifinite
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Joined: 09 Apr 2002
Posts: 524
Location: Northern VA
Styles: Hapkido | Kempo | Jujitsu
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I don't know. I mean, they're being rewarded for using Karate to win in "combat". I can think of a lot of ways money and Karate could mix that I'd consider more corrupt than winning a competition for it. Depending on the rules and how it's judged I suppose it's teetering on that line.
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