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A SPECIAL aspect of Karate (a Japanese technique of self-defence and, in competitions, a game with very strictly regulated rules in which the partners are not allowed to strike each other) can sometimes be seen as a demonstration: the Karateka breaking bricks, tiles or blocks of wood with a strike of his bare hands, feet, fingers or forehead1, the object being supported only at its ends.
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Oyama, M., This is Karate (Japan Publications Trading Company, 1965).
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Vos, J., BINKHORST, R. Velocity and Force of Some Karate Arm-movements. Nature 211, 89–90 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211089a0
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