AH! AH! AH!
Karate swing is 'safe' strike
By Girma Negash
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"Kumaadatchie . . . ishi. ni, san. . . Ah! Ah! Ah," shout the karate learners in Robinson Gymnasium as they strike, block and strike again with might and style.
They are the members of the Karate Club which was started this year.
"THE AIM of the Karate Club is to promote the knowledge and image that make up karate," said Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., junior and president of the club.
"There are roughly 40 members in our club. Our effort is to maintain a continuity in karate so that it will go on from year to year until we can start competing in karate tournaments around the country."
Asked how competition would be possible if the sport is rough, Barrish replied that karate is one of the safer sports. One need not complete his swing. To demonstrate this, he threw two hard punch gestures that stopped both times a fraction of an inch short of this reporter's nose.
Barrish defined karate as an offensive self-defense art composed of kicks, blows and blocks. It utilizes the total physical potential in blows and strikes, which makes it different from boxing.
"ALTHOUGH KARATE is an offensive self-defense the man who knows it best won't use it." Barrish said. "We are teaching it for rigorous physical training, but often times it is misused by some people who have some knowledge of it. This fact has made it unpopular in the U.S. However, college students will be responsible enough not to misuse it."
Karate originated in China and spread to Okinawa and Japan. It was primarily a spiritual exercise practiced in Buddhist monasteries. Kata, the classic movement, was later modified into different strike and block gestures over the years. Today, some people still regard karate as a spiritual exercise.
Karate—which means "openhanded" in Japanese—became popular in Okinawa when the government prohibited the use of arms to keep the people under control.
The art began here after 25 students answered an invitation from Barrish to join the club.
THE HEAD instructor is Shoiota Yamama, a fourth-grade black belt (highest title in karate) The other instructor is Bruce Morrison, Ft. Leavenworth graduate student and a first-grade black belt.
Vote passes for education board
TOPEKA — (UPI)— The Kansas House of Representatives today passed and sent to the Senate the controversial proposed amendment to the Kansas constitution that would replace the state school superintendent with a 10-man elected State Board of Education.
The resolution was tentatively approved Friday after intensive debate about whether the board should be elected or appointed by the governor.
Daily Kansan
Monday, February 21, 1966
"Karate is hard to learn at the early stage of instruction, because of the difficulty in coordinating all parts of the body," Morrison said.
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