<\/span><\/h3>\nWhile karate as a sport focuses on competition and winning, karate as a martial art is centered on self-defense and personal development. Martial arts training typically involves a more holistic approach to physical and mental development, with less emphasis on competition. However, many of the techniques and skills developed through martial arts training can be applied to karate as a sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karate is a martial art that originated in Okinawa, Japan. It has gained popularity worldwide for its physical and mental benefits. But is karate considered a sport? In this essay, we will explore the definition of a sport, the characteristics of karate, and the arguments for and against karate being a sport. Karate is a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dojoscore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}