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Why do People Train Martial Arts? Participation Motives of German and Japanese Karateka

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  • Martin Meyer

    (Faculty I, Department of School Education, University of Vechta, Vechta 49377, Germany)

  • Heiko Bittmann

    (Division of Global Affairs, School of International Education, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa-shi 920-1192, Japan)

Abstract

Meyer’s (2012) qualitative research on motivation of German karateka initiated the coordinated research project Why Martial Arts? (WMA) to analyse motives in various martial arts styles, like jūdō , taiji , krav maga and wing chun . In 2017, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) supported the transposition of the research question to Japanese karatedō and jūdō practitioners. For the German sub-study, 32 interviews were conducted about entry/participation motives, fascination categories, and reasons for choosing karatedō . The design of the Japanese sub-study was based on the aforementioned German study, but due to the higher number of participants (n = 106), a mixed method questionnaire was used and distributed via paper and online versions. The results demonstrate that many motivation categories of Japanese and German karatedō practitioners share similarities in importance and content, although the characteristics of motives can be very different—partly due to cultural specifics.

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  • Martin Meyer & Heiko Bittmann, 2018. "Why do People Train Martial Arts? Participation Motives of German and Japanese Karateka," Societies, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-19, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:8:y:2018:i:4:p:128-:d:191100
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    1. David H. K. Brown, 2019. "Physical Culture," Societies, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-10, March.
    2. Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson, 2022. "Parental Perceptions of Youths’ Desirable Characteristics in Relation to Type of Leisure: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis of Martial-Art-Practicing Youths," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(9), pages 1-13, May.

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