29 Apr ORIGINS, RESPECT AND PUT THEM INTO VALUE

IV MEETING OF SOLIDARY KARATE ✴️ Another Saturday and another almost two hours live, via instagram Iván Leal, with the history of the World Champions of Kumite in Madrid 1980, who, curiously they were Spanish…

MADRID 1980 KARATE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Sabidus, humility and some constructive criticism in relation to today’s kumite of people who know what they are talking about… even if they seem invisible to some people….

In order of appearance in this initiative:

ANTONIO OLIVA:

☑️ Told us that Spain 🇪🇸 joined the Karate competition late. While the rest of the world was made around 1963, it was done here in about 1971.

✳️It is curious that in 1980 Spain became world number 1, the first power, but perhaps those circumstances of “delay” favored a Spain that had to do everything “in leaps”.

Everyone was surprised that he won that 1980 Senior Kumite World Championship, including Antonio Oliva himself as Coach, but perhaps that “timeless training system”, which today continues to teach, practice and work, made Spain put itself on the podium over 100 countries … 🔝

💪 Interesting what he says that “at that time there were no weights in kumite (one of 100 kg could do combat with one of 65 kg) …

What’s more, Oliva himself was Champion of Spain 🇪🇸 five times, with 60kg, with a single-weight category … That’s where his popularity came from at that time and later being the coach of the Spanish National Team and winning the World Cup he reinforced it (There are photos of him with the King Emeritus and everything, hahaha …) 👑

✳️In the 1974 European Championship the weight categories were opened in Europe. Oliva participates and is second against a German, despite receiving the favor of the public for a yoko-tobi geri that he performed that excited everyone.

✳️In 1975 Karate was part of the Judo Federation, later it separated and began to push to reach the 1980 World Cup, but much earlier there was much much work and talent behind competitors and coaches.

We are lucky to have a person who is the living history of Karate for the past 50 years.

🔝Very constructive criticism that in my opinion gave the current kumite:

– Before with 3 ipon you were champion (less quantity, more quality) and almost no penalties.

– Before, the competitors were tigers who came out to bite (the 5 of the World Cup were), always with the support of psychologists, doctors … who BELIEVED IT.

– Before, the competitors were tigers who came out to bite (the 5 of the World Cup were), always with the support of psychologists, doctors … who BELIEVED IT.

QUESTION ❗❗ : – KARATE HAS IT BEEN FAIR WITH THE GENERATION OF 1980? ❗❗

As he commented, unfortunately, whenever there is a generational, institutional, or political change, there is a tendency to park the former, and this is exactly what Oliva says has happened with the generation of 1980.

🏆He showed us with great pride the 1980 championship cup. He commissioned himself to become one like the official one and recorded the name of the president, competitors … He has it in his living room and showed it with great satisfaction to all those who yesterday we were seeing him live.

-Iván Leal- commented that in important competitions he misses a stand for previous champions such as Oliva, Abad, Luque … and many more names …

Antonio Oliva answered – We tend not to value, but well, I am a base practitioner, elite coach, 9th Dan …. The Madrid Federation always writes to offer me a place in the box for me and my lady …. of the other Federation … no, no, I better not speak …

EXERCISES: Of the 3 exercises he taught us, he was based on the defensive technical system, which he always emphasizes in his courses and has repeatedly commented that in Spain we are very obsessed with scoring but it is more important that we are not scored … It makes sense, right?

💪💪 Use both arms to protect yourself. Defense closed, front arm up, rear covering.

– Defense 1: 2 arms to stop. Better not score. It can be passive or active defense (you defend and enter).

– Defense 2: When the other is faster. Protect yourself and don’t block. Protect yourself.

– Defense 3: Deterrence – Use attack as defense. Hit very hard or simulate attack and run away.

FELIPE HITA

📺 We know him for karateka but also for his television and movie appearances: Salsa Rosa, Airbag …

✳️ He was world champion in 1980 with Antonio Oliva as coach. Remember back then with a hard and forceful Karate.

😃 Another who was also at that time when there was no weight category, he had miuras of 105 Kg and he weighed about 62 kg …

He says that he has won everything except the 80kg … “Before the Open were the most because there were more weights” …

☑️Regarding teamwork, he said you have to have a head although he is a little crazy, hahahaha … Blessed madness …

🔝He affectionately names the Kyofu Gymnasium and remembers when “the colleagues” lent him several pesetas to be able to go to compete, when Lorenzo Parra approached Arganda by car … Small stories !!! He came to the championship and they called him “solitary”, “solitaire” … In the final he was with Jean Pierre Carbila and lost …

Remember a headline from Karatekas magazine that you still have saved that said that at 17 you had a promising future, because in the end, that “skinny guy” won … it’s like when the headline said: “David beat Goliath.”

QUESTION❗❗ KARATE HAS BEEN FAIR TO YOU? – ❗❗

✴️It seems to him that the stand that Iván Leal spoke about would be logical … For example, in soccer, Iniesta does not pay admission … … He does not know who or what is responsible for this situation but what is clear is that it is wrong … (And so much …)

In relation to degrees, they told him that they did not give him a degree because he was young … but they gave degrees to others, and between some things … when they gave him the 5th Dan that Orcaray gave him, he commented that from “37 years later” …

He comments that all the people who enter forget about the above, do not value it and only value what is done now …

“Jean Pierre, Espinós … we open the gate being world champions and here we are …” 🚪

This reflection seemed very interesting to me: “the one who hit the most times has lost … we are in shorts … we have not known how to make karate understood … television does not support because it is not understood …” Perhaps a more edible arbitration … people say “I don’t know, I don’t know what’s going on” ….

😁 This man has a great sense of humor, he put on a National Police Corps t-shirt to give support to this body, to the health workers and to all those who work in these hard times (He is not so crazy, right?)

☑️His exercises are a reminder of techniques that are no longer seen and he wants to remember them to see if they are reactivated. It says “they have stopped making, let’s see if we make them fashionable again”:

👊 Uraken – We leave in gyaku tsuki and at 75% of the route we change to uraken.

✋ Haito – We leave in gyaku tsuki and at 75% of the route we change to haito.

-Tetsui in the head !!

Oliva says that now nobody defends … You have to close, remove, have everything covered, the thoracic part and the head …

Let’s see if DEFENSE has to work harder … It’s not the first time I’ve heard it … And this has been years …

DAMIAN GONZÁLEZ

🔝He is responsible for Iván Leal doing Karate, because Damián did Karate and was a friend of Iván’s father, Rufino Leal (he had a few words of affection about the latter, a reminder that I think moved everyone: great competitor, Master … “

😊 And as Damián said very well “never a feeling of guilt gave so much satisfaction”, hahaha, that they tell the 6-time World Champion among other things …

🔝🔝Damián is said to be the most strategic and intelligent competitor of Spanish karate.

😳 He commented that each ending was different and he has always thought that Amillo had better physical and technical qualities.

😘 He speaks with affection of his teacher Jesús Calvo, a great coach and with a lot of psychology, which seems essential to him.

Perfect and safe tandem there would have been more successes for Spain with Antonio Oliva as coach and Jesús Calvo as coach, he said.

Formerly there were no wasaris, they were ipones. The techniques had to be very sharp, well executed, with great zanshin.

It is essential to educate generations so that they become aware that they can win or lose. A wonder of words full of humility and wisdom.

As Iván Leal said, “these words are ground gold, as Lino Gómez Feito says”

😘 It is fortunate to discover these people in these moments of Covid-19, to make them more pleasant …. Thank you …

☑️For Damián the key is 60% physical capacity and 40% concentration, that would be a 100% competitor for him. However, something very curious that he told us is that another factor is the AMBITION of winning (it is like hunting, instinct, innate …) One has it or craves it more and others do not !! Examples like Leal, Egea, Jesús Juan Rubio … that ambition in the eyes … that is innate … you can win if you go out with ambition, motivated, even if those physical conditions are lower than your opponent…

♥️ He wanted to send many memories:

– Ángel López and Miguel Serrano, two great competitors.

– Antonio Oliva, is the one who has more wisdom, more guidelines and strategies.

– Jesús Calvo, as a coach, is an incomparable psychologist.

– Jorge Romero, Felipe, Amillo…

🔝💥Interesting phrases:

– The greatness of one champion is HUMILITY, praising the other always …😊

– It is better said to attack, anticipate, counterattack … discover which technique is the most powerful and which is the weak point. You have to work both. Jesús Calvo has won medals with mae tsuki chudan to the chest and if he caught you he doubled you.

– Everyone knows what their weapon is and everyone must work on it …💪

Exercises:

– Mae geri, gyako suki and changing of the guard – repetitive.

– Gyako tsuki – step, before the leg falls to the ground, the front fist …

Very exciting to see him up close, put a face on him, for the great wisdom, humility and KARATE IN CAPITAL LETTERS ♥️

ANTONIO AMILLO:

☑️Whenever he is talked about, there is a bitter aftertaste of a final … We put a face to it last weekend (1994 World Champion Malaysia coach).

😳They call him “the Zidane of karate” and I’m not surprised …

☑️ Speaking of Jean Pierre Carbila, magnificent competitor and coach, he commented that “time buries everything, history” … I did not like that defeatist idea, really, but it seems that I was not the only one because with “history no one no one can delete it, because it is written even if they try … “I think Iván Leal made it clear that ALL ARE IMPORTANT.

💥I repeat, this man has made a pact with the devil. His exercises:

-6 Papers with numbers and techniques of legs taped to the wall.

Amillo on his back, with the numbers behind him, and Ivan said the numbers, he turned around and tsukii.

Same with the numbers on the floor. He bends down to touch them or makes funds and tsukis / geris.

It is “cognitive karate”:

⌛Now the same with chrono in hand. To work the perception of time with the “athosi baraku” ´

⏱️ Timing coldly well and working the perception of space. Continuous attacks of 20 seconds and I stop when I think I have already reached 20secs, to see how the perception is. If you spend too much, you do bottoms, abs or whatever the teacher sends.

⏲️ Same 15 seconds with defenses …

Question: – HAS KARATE BEEN FAIR TO YOU?- ❗❗

➕Positive: I keep the good things. Karate is a way of life for me, it has given me a family, it has forged me as a competitor and a human being.

Living with frustrations, anxiety, fear … that’s one part that I stay with …

➖Negative: meeting people and seeing that they do not meet expectations …

At an official level, he commented “it’s the same, I enjoy training, with the boys … I keep that … the rest we leave here … (you are a gentleman and a gentleman, Leal commented …)

☑️☑️There are many left to tell us their story in relation to Spanish Karate. Ricardo Abad, the youngest world champion, was recalled.

❎❎❎NOTE: A little thing, since we are learning the history of Spanish Karate 🇪🇸 and remembering people who should be more visible. Mention to:

– Deogracias Medina- Bronze – Katas – Madrid World Championship 1980.

Victoria Moreno – Bronze – Katas – Madrid 1980 World Championship.

They do NOT appear on the website of our Federation … Apparently they have been informed several times to add it … But … NEITHER … If we are empathetic, not to mention other adjectives, theirs is to value the effort of people who represented Spanish Karate. If we don’t do it publicly, at least in a documented wayl 📗📘📕…

☑️There are photos (attached). If you are good, interesting to update that document (it is 2 minutes and little expense gasto, for two people who, surely, gave many hours to this sport …).

❎Another thing, Karate we are all … who forgets …

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