Do you think martial arts ie.karate,T.K.D. are sports.?
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"A sport consists of a physical and mentally competitive activity carried out with a recreational purpose for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. A sport has physical activity, side by side competition, self-motivation and a scoring system. The difference of purpose is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess."\n\nSo yes I say karate, tkd and almost every competetive martial arts is a sport!
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I think it's a sport - they have competitions and what not - people turn up to training and learn routines. Dancing is a sport - chess is a sport - hell even computer gaming at Lan parties is considered a sport by some. So i'm my opinion yes cheerleading is a sport!
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Well, there just so happens to be something called self betterment. Self betterment, can be attained through many ways, mainly, winning, but not necessarily winning against another opponent, you could be winning against yourself. Also, what do you define as winning? Does a soccer player win any less than you when he scores a point because he doesn't beat anybody up? Nah, he won against himself and he won against the other team trying to stop him, that is his sport, his realm, his personal domain where he fits. My niche is judo, i love fighting, but not for the simple fact of hurting people, which is why i love judo, i am fighting yet i can fight as hard as i want, and the better i do actually the less people get hurt. I love the competition, so does the soccer player, and maybe when you get right down to it, so do you, but your definition of winning might be a little harsher than the champion ping pong player's. I know people that do karate, and most of them know that karate is the next best thing to trying to defend yourself with a wet sponge, but in many pure forms of karate out of japan, there is amazing technique and skill involved in everything they do. Much like dancing, a karate kid is trying to make his kata be perfect, same as a ballarena is trying to get that pirouet timing flawless, it's just that ballarenas train harder. I'm sure that if a karate kid wanted to learn how to hurt someone, he could very easily go and learn, it's stupidly simple to hurt or kill someone, which is why i like it where i can fight and everybody can go home and still be in one piece and there be no hate towards me because i removed someones jaw. So yeah, we are all training to win, it is just the definition of winning that you are having trouble comprehending.
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I think is should be considered a sport.  reason: it is more of a challenge than people think.  Trying to avoid getting hit ( and believe me i have been hit too close to a place too many times) and trying to hit another person is very hard.  also it provides an adrenaline rush.  sure it is expensive but not where most people think it is.  most people think it is the gun when it is actually the paint.  in fact i think it should be added to the Olympics because there are teams all over the world that play the sport.  also a little history to show how fast it has grown.  it started in New Hampshire with just twelve people in 1980  a few years later there were companies investing in the sport now theres millions of players nd hundreds of companies.  its another great american sport.  thats why i consider it a sport
549354
Define Sport!! I play darts, but don't actually classify darts as a sport. I play darts to socialise with friends, Also to get away from the missus on a Monday night!!
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Yes. So is mud wrestling and foxy boxing. ;)
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me I prefer Aikido, its based on self defense. I took aikido this summer, and our teacher told us that even the basic techniques can save your life. Even if you're a beginner you can learn some techniques you can use to defend yourself. Even tai chi can be used as self defense. So its up to you, i'm not into karate 'cause they're exercise is WAY upbeat. in aikido they teach you to counter/evade punches/kicks.
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I took Karate(Tae Kwon Do) for a short while, but it will probably not help that much against a skilled fighter.  Karate is mainly used to denfend yourself against someone who doesn't know that much about fighting, but it is still helpful.  You take belt tests which are not very difficult as long as your dedicated.
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if you're looking at street fighting, its a whole different story. martial arts are good only to a certain extent. there are too many regulations when u spar to transfer over to real life fights. i took martial arts for many years of my life and i seriously think that it would hinder me from a real street fight. ive learned to control myself and not fight dirty. for a street fight type thing, i would recommend boxing, kickboxing, or freeform fighting styles that u see being used by the guys in ultimate fighter or pride fighting. and seriously, nowadays, its not like u can do too much against a gun...
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well,\nit takes skill, practice, balls are involved, you use lots of muscles and its very competitive.  i would say it is a sport.
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Yes. It is a demanding sport and requires strength, coordination, and stamina. Try playing it and you will see.
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Same as my opinion on guys kick-boxing.You should be able to do whatever sport takes your fancy, regardless of your sex.
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Hmm..okay okay, to be honest I would probably consider Cheerleading a sport. Because...even Badminton is considered a sport and that's almost effortless.. I'm sure yall take alot of energy and endurance to do some of your cheerleading activities...just like gymnists. I think the reason they don't enlist it under Sports much is because sports seem more based on...i dont know...traditional outdoor agreesive playing i guess...and cheerleading seems more like a performance maybe? i think that's it...dat pplz look at cheerleading more like a performance...but it should be considered a sport.
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Yes they are, as are the arts. Sports teach students teamwork, which is an essential employment function.
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Body building.....a sport. Nope. Weight lifting, YES!
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Hood_12, you have escaped the cult with your common sense still intact. awesome. TaeKwon Doughnut... ROFLMAO. that art is true BULLSHIDO\n\ngiving black belts to kids shows that it isnt a realistic thing. a black belt only shows you that they are good at TKD, not of reality. I ask parents to think about the illusions they will be feeding their kids if they put them into TKD. as a competitive sport, sure. as a self defence, no. we all need hobbies, but I prefer mine to include elbows and knees, throat chops and joint manipulation. not only punches and kicks. \n\nto limit yourself is to limit your potential. believing that a limited number of moves can be better than more is dumb, and I dont mean more moves, like kung fu animals, I mean other body tools like elbows, knees, and other target areas like knees. if you laugh at knee kicks, get one. \n\nstay safe in the McDojo, for that is the limit of your limitations power.\nno mystery there.
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Now I happen to like my sports.  Maybe not football or basketball which has to depend on other members to win...........but I like Karate.  Where it's just me and the other person.  I get to kick his *ss and say I win or I lost.  Which I might say  (him kicking my *ss) will PROBABLY never happen.