VOV.VN - Three Vietnamese karate fighters Nguyen Thi Phuong, Nguyen Ngoc Tram, and Hoang Thi Thu Uyen triumphed over their ...

Karate is one of Japan's most revered martial traditions, and is one of the many facets of Japanese culture that hold universal appeal and have been embraced worldwide. Part of karate's appeal lies in ...

TOKYO (REUTERS) - The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday (Aug 5), with veteran Sandra Sanchez of Spain taking the maiden gold and leaving her ...

A faster and improved system for evaluating the kata competition has been tested by the World Karate Federation (WKF). The Competition Rules Commission’s test of the updated system, which aims at ...

V Vasanth Abhinandan with his MBR certificate for performing a sequence of martial-arts movements while wearing spiked shoes. (Bernama pic) Eight-year-old V Vasanth Abhinandan recently etched his name ...

TOKYO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Spain's Sandra Sanchez, known as the "queen of kata", won karate's maiden gold medal on Thursday, defeating perennial rival and hometown favourite Kiyou Shimizu in the sport's ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot conceded ...

Ariel Torres made history on Friday with his bronze medal win in the men's individual karate kata, the first-ever for Team USA at an Olympic Games. Torres, who ranks as the No. 10 male kata athlete in ...

There is no expiration date on neuroplasticity and being active is always a good thing. Traditional martial arts training has long been suggested as an activity to benefit folks across the lifespan ...