Finding an accepted definition is pretty easy. You could just look for it in a dictionary or a dictionary website. Here's one: "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment." (Google result from Oxford Languages)
well since then ive quoted both the oxford and Websters that are far less prescriptive, once you actually open them and read it, something it seems youve failed to do here
That was the entirety of the primary definition. The others were for different usages that don't apply. But apparently you know what was on the web page I read, even though you didn't read it.
To be honest, it's fairly common, at least in Western culture. If you look at old Boxing manuals from the early 20th C. and earlier, they're quite often self-described "art of defense" manuals, using boxing. And then the manual goes on to describe boxing within the context of the rule set of the day. While some of them do include some instruction on foul and illegal techniques "wink wink nudge nudge," the gist of it was to rules-legal boxing.
It also wasn't particularly rare to have one manual with sections on Boxing, Wrestling, and Fencing.
Physical Culture and Self Defense by lklawson
The Science of Self Defense by lklawson
Fencing, Boxing, and Wrestling, 1897 by lklawson
Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
As I told Steve the other day, it's a way to pass the time.
Agreed. I think that - used well - those stylized drills force the practitioner to focus on specific principles. I feel like they get too much attention in some schools (and maybe entire styles), but they're just a different kind of drill. Like any drill, there can be positives and negatives. Like any drill, if they're the only way you approach a technique, your skills will be shallow, in my opinion. And like many other drills, the movements sometimes translate to situations that are barely similar, if you understand the principles.
I've said many times that I believe Judo's Nage No Kata is designed to teach one or two important principles about each throw. It doesn't really matter if it looks stylized or not as long as you learn the lesson intended to be imparted. But now Nage No Kata is a competition kata, which I believe emphasizes the stylized feel and competitors too interested in the competition element could lose sight of the lesson they're supposed to learn.
Agreed. I try to reserve my opinion on someone's overall fighting ability, rather than judge it from a video of some drill. They may be great at the drill, but bad at application of those skills to a dynamic situation with a resisting opponent. Or they may be awful at that drill, but really good at other fighting skills (like someone who is a beginner in a new system, but has meaningful background somewhere else).
I have the same belief about the Classical Forms (short 2-man kata) found in NGA. They often are viewed as the entire foundation of the system, but I think they're just meant to build (as you said) a few principles in each technique. The rest should develop in other drills, randori, etc.
here is the entire defintion from websters,
So, which definition fits your need?here is the entire defintion from websters,
sport
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\ ˈspȯrt \
sported; sporting; sports
Definition of sport
(Entry 1 of 3)
intransitive verb
1a: to amuse oneself : FROLIClambs sporting in the meadow
b: to engage in a sport
2a: to mock or ridicule something
b: to speak or act in jest : TRIFLE
3[sport entry 2] : to deviate or vary abruptly from type (as by bud variation) : MUTATE
transitive verb
1: to display or wear usually ostentatiously : BOASTsporting expensive new shoes
2[sport entry 2] : to put forth as a sport or bud variation
sport
noun
Definition of sport (Entry 2 of 3)
1a: a source of diversion : RECREATION
b: sexual play
c(1): physical activity engaged in for pleasure
(2): a particular activity (such as an athletic game) so engaged in
2a: PLEASANTRY, JEST
b: often mean-spirited jesting : MOCKERY, DERISION
3a: something tossed or driven about in or as if in play
b: LAUGHINGSTOCK
4a: SPORTSMAN
b: a person considered with respect to living up to the ideals of sportsmanshipa good sporta poor sport
c: a companionable person
5: an individual exhibiting a sudden deviation from type beyond the normal limits of individual variation usually as a result of mutation especially of somatic tissue
sport
adjective
variants: or sports
the primary defintion is
1a: a source of diversion : RECREATION
and ignoring the one about sex
c(1): physical activity engaged in for pleasure
all of them fit my need
