かつての沖縄には，「かきだみし」（かけだめし）と言って，自分の技量がどの程度か，技がどの程度通じるのかを知るための手段として，自由に技を掛け合う機会があったと言われている。すなわち，あくまで主体は普段の稽古であり，その稽古の成果として，ときにこうした試合のようなものが行われたのである。しかし，現代のスポーツ空手は，試合が主体であり，普段の稽古はその試合に勝つ（自分の相対的な強さを証明する）ための練習として行われている。つまり，主客が逆転してしまっている。空手を，武道ではなく，スポーツとして捉えてしまうと，こうならざるを得ない。つまり，優劣勝敗を決する試合が最も重要な機会となり，武道がゲーム化してしまう。
It is said that there were chances for free fighting, called "kakidamishi" (kakedameshi), as a measure to know how high the skills were, or how well the skills work. This means that, basically the most important activity is daily practice, and something like competitions is sometimes taken place to know the results of the daily practice. But, current sports karate focuses on competitions, and they conduct their usual practice in order to win a match, that is, to demonstrate their own relative superiority against others. In a word, that is putting the cart before the horse. There is no getting away from this fact if karate is not regarded as budo, but sports. In other words, budo would become games, if they made much of competitions which are to decide on win and loss.
It is said that there were chances for free fighting, called "kakidamishi" (kakedameshi), as a measure to know how high the skills were, or how well the skills work. This means that, basically the most important activity is daily practice, and something like competitions is sometimes taken place to know the results of the daily practice. But, current sports karate focuses on competitions, and they conduct their usual practice in order to win a match, that is, to demonstrate their own relative superiority against others. In a word, that is putting the cart before the horse. There is no getting away from this fact if karate is not regarded as budo, but sports. In other words, budo would become games, if they made much of competitions which are to decide on win and loss.
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