Video: Karate Rules & Regulations

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Knowing the rules and regulations of karate, from types of tournaments, types of disqualifications, styles and proper etiquette are extremely important to understand in martial arts. Learn how to get started in karate, Tae Kwon Do or Akito with advice from a martial arts instructor in this free video on the rules and regulations in karate.

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Hi, my name is Doug Edwards, I'm from ETO Martial Arts and Fitness in Kennesaw, Georgia. We teach a blended style of martial arts but we're traditionally based is Tae Kwon Do. Now today I'm going to talk about some rules and regulations. Basically there's not general body that is over all of martial arts. Each style has its own and within each style there's styles within them as well. I'm going to talk some generalities to you. For example, when you do tournaments, typically if you know.. if you see tournaments that wear head gears, well that is where you can hit on the head for rules. You don't hit to the face, you don't draw blood. If you draw blood, in a lot of styles it's automatically disqualification. Typically as well you, when you're sparring it's from the waist up. Now there are styles where they do sweeps and you know, the take down and so forth but Tae Kwon Do is usually waist up. And from the front of the body on the side, forward is most of the attack area as well. Again here in most styles there are you know the equipment that you wear will indicate where you're going to strike. Some of them have the big chest gear where the dots to indicate red and blue to the individual for the score points. There are point sparring, and there is continuation sparring as well. Point sparring usually the first person to get to two or three points typically is the winner. But again, you have different styles and they would do continuations so that they actually can run up more points within a certain period of like one minute thirty second rounds, whatever you have. There's a lot of rules but I would suggest is for you to go to whatever style you have, such as Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Akito, whatever it is that you do, look at their website and you'll find their rules and regulations that they have too.

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