Sports
Gerlinger to host national karate tournament
By Ron WhiHed
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How long has il been since
you watched a national karate
tournament? Never? Well this is
your lucky day. This year the
University of Oregon with the
help of the University Physical
Education Department will host
the 25th annual American
Amateur Karate National
Championships.
The last time the national
championships were held in
Oregon was in 1973.
The tournament will kick off
Friday at 3:00 p.m. in Gerlinger
Hall with a two court collegiate
elimination. All of the col
legiate events will be held Fri
day with dan testing (black belt
degree testing) to follow.
Competition will resume at
9:00 a m. Saturday with the
state and national contestants.
The floor will then be chang
ed to a single court, and the
championship rounds will com
mence at 6:00 p.m.
At 9:00 p.m. immediately
following the championships,
them will he a banquet at the
Eugene Elks Club. Cost is
$10 00 a person.
The tournament will consist
of college teams, state teams
and individual contestants com
peting in one of two forms of the
sport: Kata, for teams only, and
kamita.
Kata, a floorstudy of karate
moves similar to a gymnastics
floor routine, is performed by a
team, usually consisting of
three members.
There are thousands of dif
ferent katas, but the teams must
choose from a prescribed list.
A panel of judges looks for
form, synchronization, balance
of power and reality among
other things, judging is much
like gymnastics or figure
skating, according to Robert
Graves, the University’s karate
instructor and a 30-year veteran
of the sport.
‘Kata is not merely movement for move
ment sake, there must be real power. It is
not just a set of dance steps. ’
— Robert Graves
"Kata is not merely move
ment for movement sake, there
must be real power. It is not just
a set of dance steps.” Graves
said.
The second form, kamita, is
freestyle, one-on-one sparring,
and there are no ranks or weight
classes, only experience.
requirements.
The collegiate teams, accor
ding to Graves, usually have the
least experience because of their
lack of time to prepare and for
the most part are green belts or
lower.
The state and national com
petitors generally range from
brown belt' to fourth dan. or
fourth degree black belt. .
. The only protective equip
ment used by the athletes is a
thin fist covering, which the
host team must provide.
The sparring is observed by
four judges, who are positioned
at each corner of the eight-meter
square.
Inside the square is a referee
and outside the square, beyond
the corner judges, sits an ar
bitrator, who views the tourna
ment through the eyes of the
rule book. It is the arbitrator’s
sole job to make certain no rules
are violated, and he holds the
power to stop the match at any
time because of a rule violation.
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I he oh)ectlve ot me matcn is
to score one point, called an
epon. To do this the contestant
must execute a move which,
under real combat conditions,
would render his opponent
unable to continue.
Rarely does a fighter score a
full point: more frequently half
points are awarded. If no points
are earned by the end of the
two-minute match, the referee
and judges will decide the win
ner based on fighting spirit,
technique and power.
Teams from as far away as
New York and Minnesota come
to the tournaments but since
there is no funding for com
petitors only those who can af
ford to make the trip compete.
Only about 50 players make it to
the tournament each year, ac
cording to Graves.
Dr. Micheal Ellis is the
Honorary Tournament Chair
man and will deliver the open
ing speech for the tournament.
The University Club Sport
karate team will not compete,
but Tom Platt, a member of the
team will compete individually.
A women's state kata team
made up of women from the
Eugene area will include Sue
Doyle. Louise Seguela and
Loyal Omvig. They will com
pete as a kata team in the
tournament.
America II sails past
Britain in yacht race
FREMANTLE, Australia (AP)
— America II sailed to a victory
over Britain’s White Crusader
on Wednesday while New
Zealand also won and remained
tied with the United States boat
for the lead in the America's
(’up challenge series.
America II. captained by John
kolius. lost the start to White
Crusader but took the lead after
the first mark and led for the
rest of the race, winning by one
minute.
Chris Dickson kept New
Zealand in front of French Kiss
throughout their race. It was
close until the final leg, when
the fiberglass boat pulled away
from Marc Pajot’s crew to win
by 2:23 seconds.
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The victories kept America II
and New Zealand atop the stan
dings with 31 points each.
White Crusader remained third
with 23 points. Italia was fourth
with 22 points and Stars
Stripes was fifth with 21.
America II and White
Crusader both flew protest flags
midway through their race,
w'hile French Kiss and New
Zealand raised red flags about
five minutes before the start.
All four protests were
dismissed.
In the other races involving
American yachts. USA defeated
Azzurra, Stars • Stripes defeated
Heart of America, and Eagle
whipped Challenge France.
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