Karate-do as an instrument for training the character and personality of practitioners through their body techniques

Abstract

This research aims to investigate, with instructors of karate-do, the understanding about the relationship between corporal techniques developed in this martial art and the formation of character of the practitioner, a relation that according to the authors of the area is direct and unavoidable. As an instrument of data collection, interviews with all instructors working in this martial art in the Santarém-PA city. As a result, for example, 38% of professors demonstrated that they were directly and objectively trained in character and personality, without considering that the techniques themselves are instruments of formation of this character, another 54% could do so, while 8% of respondents have shown that they do so only with the children, and it is concluded that the instructors methodologically still do not demonstrate cohesion of work, and some of them still need to be more closely aligned with the authors of the area.

Keywords

• karatê-do
• corpo
• técnicas corporais