Karate research - asking for help

[pap1ll0n]

Hi everyone! I know I'm completely new here, but I thought this might be a good place to ask for a bit of help with this. Just as a background, I'm a karate practitioner myself, I've been doing Wadokai karate for around 16 years now, although I've previously dabbled in Shotokan and Shito-ryu as well, currently competing internationally within Wado, and I'm also a qualified ref in my country.

That being said, I'm currently doing my PhD, and my research is specifically about karate! Basically, I'm interested in the relationships between clean sport/anti-doping and karate, and at the moment, I'm looking to find out what karate practitioners think about performance enhancement more broadly, and how the values imbued within karate (such as the discipline and respect aspects of being a karateka) relate to karatekas' attitudes towards clean sport. For this, I've got a 10-minute questionnaire, and I'm looking for the opinions of as many people as possible - regardless of style, years of experience in karate, or country of origin. It's completely anonymous and has been cleared by my uni's Ethics Board, but I'm also happy to share my results with the community when I finish the analysing it! If any of you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer, and I hope some of you will take the time to fill it out

Link here: Anti-doping in karate

 

[Gyakuto]

I was the anti-doping officer for the British Kendo Association and practiced Wado Ryu to 3rd Dan under Suzuki Tatsuo many years ago and I was a physiologist/neuroscientist/anatomist most recently at the University of Sheffield.

If you would like any lesser known insights into doping () etc, do let me know.

 

[Buka]

That was a royal pain in the ash. The form kept repeating the page then would drop the connection.

 

[Gyakuto]

That was a royal pain in the ash. The form kept repeating the page then would drop the connection.

That time the connection is ‘dropped’, a little bot is scouring your hard drive for your bank details and passwords!

 

[Gyakuto]

I don’t think doping is much of an issue in amateur ‘sports’ until prize money becomes involved. Why else would you risk your health by doping. A trophy and title alone is not enough motivation unless it attracts money.

I had a student who won an Olympic gold medal. As soon as she crossed the finish line she was worth £3 million!

 

[Buka]

That time the connection is ‘dropped’, a little bot is scouring your hard drive for your bank details and passwords!

I wouldn’t put bank details or passwords on any kind of electronic device. To me, that’s just plain foolish.

 

[Gyakuto]

I wouldn’t put bank details or passwords on any kind of electronic device. To me, that’s just plain foolish.

Do you just remember them?

 

[Buka]

Do you just remember them?

He’ll no.

 

[Gyakuto]

Maybe you write them in a little book but where do you keep that book safe from your pet…who’s name is?.,,Of course you could ask your mother to remember them, who’s maiden name was….?

 

[Buka]

Maybe you write them in a little book but where do you keep that book safe from your pet…who’s name is?.,,Of course you could ask your mother to remember them, who’s maiden name was….?

The dog knows better than to touch any books, she’s really good that way. Her name is Deogee.

Ma’s maiden name was Nunya.

 

[HighKick]

Hi everyone! I know I'm completely new here, but I thought this might be a good place to ask for a bit of help with this. Just as a background, I'm a karate practitioner myself, I've been doing Wadokai karate for around 16 years now, although I've previously dabbled in Shotokan and Shito-ryu as well, currently competing internationally within Wado, and I'm also a qualified ref in my country.

That being said, I'm currently doing my PhD, and my research is specifically about karate! Basically, I'm interested in the relationships between clean sport/anti-doping and karate, and at the moment, I'm looking to find out what karate practitioners think about performance enhancement more broadly, and how the values imbued within karate (such as the discipline and respect aspects of being a karateka) relate to karatekas' attitudes towards clean sport. For this, I've got a 10-minute questionnaire, and I'm looking for the opinions of as many people as possible - regardless of style, years of experience in karate, or country of origin. It's completely anonymous and has been cleared by my uni's Ethics Board, but I'm also happy to share my results with the community when I finish the analysing it! If any of you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer, and I hope some of you will take the time to fill it out

Link here: Anti-doping in karate

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10-minute PhD? Hmm

 

[Gyakuto]

10-minute PhD? Hmm

Well that one questionnaire is. There’ll be a hundreds of those during a social science PhD.

 

[Hot Lunch]

...if there's one thing I can't stand, it's these bots. Or any other first posts by new users that indicate no intention to stick around and contribute to the forum.

(My apologies for being the party pooper).

 

[Gyakuto]

...if there's one thing I can't stand, it's these bots. Or any other first posts by new users that indicate no intention to stick around and contribute to the forum.

(My apologies for being the party pooper).

This looks a little bit more than a bot, though.

 

[Hot Lunch]

This looks a little bit more than a bot, though.

But it's definitely someone who isn't going to stick around and contribute.

 

[Gyakuto]

But it's definitely someone who isn't going to stick around and contribute.

That’s true.

 

[HighKick]

Well that one questionnaire is. There’ll be a hundreds of those during a social science PhD.

I certainly hope so. There are so many diploma mills out there.

I did my two Master degrees back-to-back with some overlap while working an average of 70-hours/wk. The two thesis/dissertations were grueling. For me, it paid off to do the extra time for the upper degrees, but comparatively speaking, you just don't see all that many PhD's in my field of engineering because they have minimum value (in terms of making money). Nearly everything you really need to know and learn happens outside the college walls.

 

[pap1ll0n]

Just to address a couple of these messages, sorry for being a bit inactive, I've been away at a competition when I posted this. No, my PhD is not a diploma mill, it's a Russell Group uni in the UK (I know Russell Group doesn't mean much anymore nowadays, but this is the University of Birmingham, as you can see from the actual post itself, so it's one of the more decent ones).

And yes, this one questionnaire takes around 10 minutes, but I have 3 separate studies - Study 1 was a qualitative interview primarily with English National Squad members, coaches, and related personnel, which has already been analysed (and this survey's partially constructed based on my findings there). Study 3 will be a small-scale intervention study, starting sometime around January, partly because it's actual hell to try and get people to fill out questionnaires.

I apologise if I offended anyone by posting this here; I have no intention to cause harm to anyone, I'm just trying my best to finish my degree and in the process, find out more about a topic that's been of interest to me for many years and maybe contribute a bit to existing research in the process.

 

[pap1ll0n]

I was the anti-doping officer for the British Kendo Association and practiced Wado Ryu to 3rd Dan under Suzuki Tatsuo many years ago and I was a physiologist/neuroscientist/anatomist most recently at the University of Sheffield.

If you would like any lesser known insights into doping () etc, do let me know.

That's actually very interesting! This is a part of Wado culture I don't think I'd know much about (I started in 2008 in Hungary, but we've always been more occupied with the internal politics of Wadokai/Wado-ryu than performance enhancement), so that sounds like something super interesting to learn more about.

I don’t think doping is much of an issue in amateur ‘sports’ until prize money becomes involved. Why else would you risk your health by doping. A trophy and title alone is not enough motivation unless it attracts money.

I had a student who won an Olympic gold medal. As soon as she crossed the finish line she was worth £3 million!

That's been echoed a lot with people I've asked about the topic so far, the fact that doping is not worth doing unless you stand to gain something from it in terms of prize money or anything of the sort. But that being said, I think there is a very real risk of unintentional doping in the sense that people don't bother to check supplements and might not be aware that certain medications are prohibited (think stimulants for ADHD, for example - you might have a legitimate reason to take them, but you need to declare that if you're at that level of competition, which a lot of people, especially in English Karate, don't know about).

So yes, I think so in a way, but there's also a lot more nuance to it that just does not get enough discussion.

 

[pap1ll0n]

That was a royal pain in the ash. The form kept repeating the page then would drop the connection.

Don't really know why that would happen, sorry! It might be to do with the fact that the survey is hosted from within the UK? I know very little about software engineering, so I'm not too sure what I can do to fix it