2014-10-23

Rules of performing karate team (The English lesson task)

When you wanna do the karate as team - and believe me, this thing is amazing - first of all you have to find your team mates. In karate "kata team" always have to be three members - in case you`d like to compete against another teams. You also should be the same gender, in some competitions it`s not necessary, but it also means that this competition is not so important and you won`t receive any points you can use to qualify to Championship of Czech republic what takes place in Havířov every year. In "big" competitions like that you really have to be similar age and same gender. You also have to show the same style of karate (there are around 100 different styles of karate around the world, in CZ people do around 10 of them). This is seriously necessary, because the most important thing is to perform the kata (selection of certain chronological positions) exactly the same way in exactly the same time. So you have to be seriously coordinated with your team mates, if you`re not it sucks and it`s useless. It`s not just about your own amazing show now, it`s about your team. At that`s what matters. You can`t just skip trainings, you can`t just be lazy, because your team mates is the most valuable thing and you can`t let them down. It`s about discipline, team spirit, hard times when you have to sweat, scream, feel the pain and try and try and try and repeat. But mostly it`s about the feeling you love it and about the lifetime friendship.