KICKBOXING
IT WAS CALLED "FULL CONTACT KARATE"

The first time I happened to see the real existence of this new specialty was in the early seventies, during an Easter Budo at the Palalido Milan: component gruppone Fesika led by Shirai teacher, I was to attend the demonstration traditional karate.
While waiting for our intervention, we riscaldavamo into the bowels of the temple Milan martial arts and near us some athletes with the gi trousers, and colored belt torso naked, preparing to wear protective plastic stranissime colored both hands that the foot and similar caschetti head.
Some of these children were known to us: either happened was that they had trained with us in Bezzecca (at the time of Fesika headquarters), or had met them at competitions, examinations or stage. There seemed stranissimo that had betrayed the traditional values of karate do to approach this, for us, bizarre specialties.
I recall that the teacher, in his usual inimitable ability to fingersi surprised and intrigued, asked him who served as a coordinator of this group, if these protections had actually guaranteed the safety športnika against an attack and decided, taken malcapitato the closest to him and sistematogli well the helmet on his head began to bring controlled, but not too much, mawashi geri the sides of the head, leaving the type shocked and fearful of what could capitargli.
Perhaps he was not so confident of the safety of pioneering safe-ton Jhoon Ree!
I had lived with the interest of world affairs Valéra Dominique, a true star of traditional karate that I got to know some international competitions, and I knew of his intention to leave the karate to undertake the adventure of contact, but I thought it was venting momentary a great athlete who was unwilling to surrender to face time and the logic of the game. When, in the wake of Dominique, Italy is the first organized races and the first stage of full contact karate began to think that perhaps it was not so limited but was allargandosi to scrub oil. I confess that I was initially intrigued and attended a couple of rallies to Ciocco and San Pellegrino with some samples of the specialties that, in fact, even in the face of their record of karateka were really good. What I always left very puzzled was the initial desire to suggest that this new specialties could be a variant of karate that I praticavo that intent, technology and culture, was completely different. I seemed absurd practice full continuing to wear the karategi, albeit in a version topless colored stars and stripes, attributed dan full contact (?) And wear belts graduation, even using special trousers gi with passers for the same belt .
It was a long battle to ensure that the full contact is no longer called karate, but took its own size and become one of the specialties of kickboxing, divided into various specialties.
To cite an episode that underlines how much confusion had been created in between karate and remember that a full evening, in my capacity as regional technical commissioner, I was invited by a teacher from karate to be a lesson in his full contact gymnasium of La Spezia have arisen where the first courses. He explained all the techniques used in combat, the rules for tenders, etc., and then ... The kata!
Restai amazed to see students perform the kata heian wearing protective of the regular full contact!
At my request for an explanation, I was told that since the kata is an imaginary battle against a number of opponents in traditional karate is being fought with bare hands, in full contact karate fights are (also immaginariamente) with the protections! Fortunately today was fully established. In essence for the good of all.
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