Musicians in the U.S. and Japan are collaborating in honor of the first Olympic karate competition: Composers tracked the brainwaves of people performing karate, and turned that data into music.

Karate at the Olympics — and other karate competitions — are divided into two formats: Kumite and kata. Here’s what you need to know. How does the Kumite portion of karate work?

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Spain’s Sandra Sanchez, known as the “queen of kata”, won karate’s maiden gold medal on Thursday, defeating perennial rival and hometown favourite Kiyou Shimizu in the ...

At the Tokyo Olympics, both the men and the women will compete in two karate events at Nippon Budokan: kata, a solo form discipline, and kumite, a sparring discipline.

Karate is set to make its Olympic debut at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. Here is everything you need to know about the Kumite and kata competitions.

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday with the 10 karateka performing routines in a hushed, spectator-less Nippon Budokan arena, the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Ryo Kiyuna took men’s kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot ...

Karate is making its Olympic debut in Tokyo but is not guaranteed of future appearances. So a good first impression in its origin country matters.

The Olympic competition will be held both in kumite and in kata. Kumite is competitive sparring ands kata is a demonstration of form.

Karate's debut as an Olympic sport brought some terrific athleticism, solid contact, and -- yes -- a whole lot of yelling to our screens and the Nippon Budokan. There was the kata, which did not ...

My Olympic story is uniquely American, and I take pride in how it binds together the two worlds in which I grew up as a Japanese American in Hawaii. I started learning karate in my local dojo in ...