The sportivization process of a martial art: the karate

• Main Authors: Marcelo Alberto de Oliveira (Author), Jefferson Campos Lopes (Author), Ricardo João Sonoda-Nunes (Author), Abel Aurélio Abreu Figueiredo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidad de León, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study addresses the historical trajectory of karate, particularly in relation to the processes that favored its inclusion as one of the five modalities that will debut at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. The literature review was the methodology used in this research. Several attempts an...