Olympic sport
Individual sport
Teaches respect for Strength
Improves concentration
Teaches discipline and respect
Improves self-confidence
Helps to control aggression
Success is dependent on individual’s efforts. If they want to win, they can’t count on someone else. If they lose a match, athletes can’t blame anyone else for their failure. This teaches them to be responsible for their own action and decisions.
Kids are taught to respect their strength and techniques, thus they gain a disdain for bullying as well.
Martial arts will not teach child self-defense skills to directly deter bullies, but taking martial arts might prevent child from becoming a bully.
Short description
Karate can be practiced as an art (budō), self defense or as a combat sport. Kyokushin (極真) is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達 Ōyama Masutatsu). "Kyokushin" is Japanese for "the ultimate truth". It is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline and hard training. Its full contact style had international appeal (practitioners have over the last 40+ years numbered more than 12 million).
