例えば，若者が剣道を選ぶか柔道を選ぶか空手を選ぶかは，単に好き嫌いの個人差かもしれない。ただ，柔道や剣道は，中学校や高校での体育授業や部活動として広く普及し，そのため知名度も高く競技人口も多い。結果として現代において，その活動は試合のためのスポーツ，武道ではなく純粋にスポーツの１つとしての色合いが強くなりすぎている。もちろん，柔や剣とは何かを考え，自ら追求し，生徒の指導に盛り込んでいる優れた武道家も中にはいるだろうが，多いとは思えない。これに対して，空手はやや趣が異なる。空手は，柔道や剣道ほど学校教育の中で普及しているとは言えないために，同じ武道系スポーツよりも，洗練されていない雰囲気を持っている。別の言い方をすれば，剣道や柔道のように高度に組織化・体系化されたスポーツよりも，神秘的な武道性を残しているように見えるかもしれない。
For instance, whether a young person select kendo, judo, or karate may depend on his/her personal likes and dislikes. But, judo and kendo are popularized as classes or extracurricular activities in Junior and high school, and then very famous and have a lot of players in Japan. As a result, at the present day, the activities of judo and kendo are sports for competitions, that is, they have too much characteristic as not budo but one of pure sports. Of course, there are some, but probably not much sensible budo-ka (martial artists) who think what yawara (ju) or ken is, search after it, and teach it to their students. On the other hand, karate has a little difference situation from judo and kendo. Karate has less sophisticated atmosphere than any other martial artistic sports, because it seems not to prevail among school education so much as judo and kendo. In other words, karate may seem to keep having more mysterious budoism than any other highly organized and systematized sports like judo and kendo.
September 21, 2011
September 16, 2011
Attraction of Karate for Young People
児童を含む若者にとって，空手の魅力は何か。若者が，他のスポーツではなく空手を選択する理由は何だろうか。スポーツとしての効用は，どの競技も同じであると考えられるから，若者の選択を左右する要因として残るのは，空手が持つ独特の本質的な魅力であろう。では，その空手の本質的な魅力とは何か。格闘術としての魅力が大きいことは当然だが，周辺には，柔道や剣道や合気道の道場，少林寺拳法の道院，ボクシングのジムも身近に存在し，また，最近ではレスリングやブラジリアン柔術やテコンドーの道場も多い。では，なぜ空手なのか。もちろん，実際のところ，自宅の近くに道場があったから，あるいは，親や兄弟や知り合いがやっていたから，という理由が大きいかもしれない。ただ，空手には，外国のあるいは外国風の格闘術（ボクシング，レスリング，テコンドー，少林寺拳法，ブラジリアン柔術など）にはない，また，柔道や剣道などの高度にスポーツ化が進んだ競技にはない，日本的な「武道」としての魅力をなんとなく感じるのではないだろうか。すなわち，「武道性」という魅力である。また，厳密には，空手は沖縄の武道なので，そこにまた，他の日本武道系スポーツ（柔道，剣道，合気道，弓道など）とは異なる，一種独特の魅力があるのかもしれない。
What is the attraction of karate for young people including the children? What is the reason why young people select karate instead of other sports? Any kinds of sports may have the same goods of sports, and the rest of factors to influence their selection may be the attraction that karate has originally and essentially. What is the essential attraction of karate? Though it it natural that it is attractive as martial arts, there are dojos of judo, kendo, aikido, and doins of shorinji-kenpo, and gyms of boxing around young people. Recently, there are not a few dojos of wrestling, Brazilian-jujutsu, and taekwondo, too. But why some select karate? Of course, actually the most practical reason may be that a dojo of the martial art is near their home, or their parents, brothers, or acquaintances practice the martial art. But, doesn't karate make us vaguely feel attracted to its characteristics as Japanese "budo," which is not accompanied with foreign or foreign-like martial arts (boxing, wrestling, taekwondo, shorinji-kenpo, Brazilian-jujutsu, and so on), as well as highly-sportized marital arts like judo and kendo? That is the attraction of "bodoism." In addition, strictly speaking, karate is Okinawan budo, and then there may be a kind of original attraction in karate, which is different from one in other Japanese martial artistic sports (judo, kendo, aikido, kyudo, and so on).
What is the attraction of karate for young people including the children? What is the reason why young people select karate instead of other sports? Any kinds of sports may have the same goods of sports, and the rest of factors to influence their selection may be the attraction that karate has originally and essentially. What is the essential attraction of karate? Though it it natural that it is attractive as martial arts, there are dojos of judo, kendo, aikido, and doins of shorinji-kenpo, and gyms of boxing around young people. Recently, there are not a few dojos of wrestling, Brazilian-jujutsu, and taekwondo, too. But why some select karate? Of course, actually the most practical reason may be that a dojo of the martial art is near their home, or their parents, brothers, or acquaintances practice the martial art. But, doesn't karate make us vaguely feel attracted to its characteristics as Japanese "budo," which is not accompanied with foreign or foreign-like martial arts (boxing, wrestling, taekwondo, shorinji-kenpo, Brazilian-jujutsu, and so on), as well as highly-sportized marital arts like judo and kendo? That is the attraction of "bodoism." In addition, strictly speaking, karate is Okinawan budo, and then there may be a kind of original attraction in karate, which is different from one in other Japanese martial artistic sports (judo, kendo, aikido, kyudo, and so on).
August 30, 2011
Choice of Favorite Sports between Young People
究極的には，若者が何らかのスポーツを実践するかどうかは，子供時代に親が子供にどの競技をさせるか（選択させるか），子供自身がどの競技を知り，かつ，興味を持つか，に依存している。そして，どのスポーツに携わろうが，スポーツとしての効用はほぼ同じものが得られるだろう。柔道でも，剣道でも，スポーツ空手でも，サッカーでも，野球でも，同じである。したがって，仮にここで柔道や剣道やスポーツ空手などを選択したとしても，「武道」本来の意味や目的を知りうるかどうかは，また別の次元である。
Ultimately, whether young people practice any sports depends on what kind of sports parents make their children practice, or what kind of sports the children themselves see and hear and then are interested in. Practically, whatever sport the young engage in enables them to gain some steady goods of sports. That is universal among judo, kendo, and sports-karate as well as baseball and football. Thus, if a person selected judo, kendo, or sports-karate in his/her young age, it would not be guaranteed that he/she is able to understand the primary meaning or purpose of "budo".
Ultimately, whether young people practice any sports depends on what kind of sports parents make their children practice, or what kind of sports the children themselves see and hear and then are interested in. Practically, whatever sport the young engage in enables them to gain some steady goods of sports. That is universal among judo, kendo, and sports-karate as well as baseball and football. Thus, if a person selected judo, kendo, or sports-karate in his/her young age, it would not be guaranteed that he/she is able to understand the primary meaning or purpose of "budo".
August 29, 2011
Sports Based on Budo
現代の柔道や剣道は，日本古来より伝わる武道に基づいて確立された「スポーツ」である。試合（勝敗）を目標・基準とする練習体系を持った時点で，それは武道ではなくスポーツである。空手も同様に，多くの町道場や学校で指導されている空手は，スポーツ空手である。このような，武道に基づいたスポーツは，あくまでスポーツなので，スポーツとしての効用は十二分に含まれている。スポーツによって，心身の健康が増進され，物理的な身体能力，人間関係や集団組織における精神的な適応能力などが鍛えられる。すなわち，野球やサッカーと同じである。子どもを対象にする場合，武道的スポーツは「礼儀作法」が身につくと宣伝されることもあるが，しかし，野球やサッカーでも，礼儀作法は身につくだろう。
Modern judo and kendo are just "sports" developed and formed in the base of traditional Japanese martial arts (budo). They are now not budo but sports, just after they built the practicing system whose aim or standard is to win competitions. As these martial artistic sports, modern karate is also sports, which is taught at the most part of dojos in communities and schools. These sports based on budo are persistently sports, so they also have a lot of benefits which sports usually have. Sports not only promote physical and mental health, but also develop physical ability of body and mental ability of adaptation in human relationships and groups. That is to say, martial artistic sports (sports based on budo, budo-like sports) are same as baseball or football. Targeting for kids, budo-like sports often advertise that they provide "decencies" for kids, but they can learn "decencies" by baseball or football as well.
Modern judo and kendo are just "sports" developed and formed in the base of traditional Japanese martial arts (budo). They are now not budo but sports, just after they built the practicing system whose aim or standard is to win competitions. As these martial artistic sports, modern karate is also sports, which is taught at the most part of dojos in communities and schools. These sports based on budo are persistently sports, so they also have a lot of benefits which sports usually have. Sports not only promote physical and mental health, but also develop physical ability of body and mental ability of adaptation in human relationships and groups. That is to say, martial artistic sports (sports based on budo, budo-like sports) are same as baseball or football. Targeting for kids, budo-like sports often advertise that they provide "decencies" for kids, but they can learn "decencies" by baseball or football as well.
August 15, 2011
Meaning of the Existence of Sports
スポーツの効用は計り知れない。第一に，適度に身体を鍛えることで，心身の健康を増進・維持することができる。第二に，競技やゲームを行うことによって，勝ち負けに伴う感情的体験を得ることができる。また，ゲーム中における，相手との駆け引きやチームメイトとの協力など，人間関係や集団組織への適応へと結びつく擬似的体験を得ることができる。このように，物理的な身体能力と，人間関係や集団組織における精神的な適応能力の両方を鍛えるスポーツは，秩序のある社会を構築するために大いに役立つ。これは，スポーツの発祥や発展を支えるものがもともと「戦争」であることを考えれば，当然である。現代社会におけるスポーツの意義は，もちろん「戦争」ではないが，競技やゲームが人間社会の縮図であると考えれば，スポーツの効用は計り知れない。
The effects of sports are incalculable. First, building up our body within limits enables our mental and physical health to be improved and maintained. Second, participating in games and competitions enables us to have emotional experiences with win and loss. In addition, players can get para-experiences leading to their adaptation to human relationships and group organizations in the society by their maneuvering against opponents and cooperation with teammates in the game. Thus, sports greatly help to construct a well-ordered society, since they educate both our physical ability of body and mental ability to adapt ourselves to human relationships and group organizations. This is natural, given that the origin and development of sports is essentially supported by "war". Though the meaning of the existence of sports in our modern society is not justly "war", the effects of sports are incalculable if we think that the competitions or games are the epitome of our human society.
The effects of sports are incalculable. First, building up our body within limits enables our mental and physical health to be improved and maintained. Second, participating in games and competitions enables us to have emotional experiences with win and loss. In addition, players can get para-experiences leading to their adaptation to human relationships and group organizations in the society by their maneuvering against opponents and cooperation with teammates in the game. Thus, sports greatly help to construct a well-ordered society, since they educate both our physical ability of body and mental ability to adapt ourselves to human relationships and group organizations. This is natural, given that the origin and development of sports is essentially supported by "war". Though the meaning of the existence of sports in our modern society is not justly "war", the effects of sports are incalculable if we think that the competitions or games are the epitome of our human society.
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