Sport in which belts are awarded

Usage examples of karate.

I regarded aikido as a gentler discipline than karate or kung-fu, and one more likely to prevail without breaking bones.

I had seen the Karate defeats by Judo and Aikido, but they were not enough.

I back-tracked and scooped it up, irritated because I was already late for my trip to the dojo, or judo and karate practice hall.

I had run into some of them before, and once one of them had worked out briefly in my dojo, practicing karate.

I was satisfied with her performance on several counts: she was a good karate instructor, she kept the dojo neat, she handled the accounts well, and her presence encouraged both female and black attendance.

Security, the legendary Carl Linga William Eiheji, Zen archer, watercolorist, karate master, philosopher, former flyer, and flower arranger.

He becomes Hong Kong Phooey, a superhero dog who thinks he saves the day with these very cool karate chops.

Their heads and hands and feet were tan, the rest of their bodies white, as though clothed in beltless karate outfits.

Before settling on a career in what she called photojournalism, she had been a lifeguard, a karate instructor and finally a smoke-jumper for the Washington State Department of Forestry.

Then you experiment, I mean, they had thermographs and electromyographs of these old karate masters going through their moves, so you can make pretty good guesses about what was going on under their uniforms, but finally you just have to make guesses.

Karate, judo, boxing, jiujitsu, wrestling-not one of the formal schools of unarmed combat prepares a man for the special problem of suddenly catching a sack of bricks that has fallen out of a third story window.

The idea behind so-called mixed martial arts, or MMA, is to pit against each other a combination of traditional martial disciplines: boxing, jujitsu, judo, karate, kempo, kung fu, Muay Thai, sambo, wrestling.

While karate used mostly feet and hand strikes, and judo used mostly holds and throws, jujitsu combined both and then added knees, elbows, head butts, choke holds, submission holds, and even a few more.

The Family Warriors spent years being instructed by one of the Elders, a former Warrior, in karate, kung fu, jujitsu, savate, and diverse other styles of martial combat.

For the next few years, I was totally consumed with minibikes and karate.