Shutter speed is your problem.
You should use Shutter priority mode and force a fast shutter speed.
at least 1/500 or 1/1000 th of a second.
Or if lighting level is marginal use aperture priority mode and select
the lowest F stop possible.  This will result in maximizing  shutter
speed.  You might still have some blurring but minimized
You might be able to set the ISO (equivalant to file speed) to a
higher number. This to will result in faster shutter speeds but will
also produce a more grainy picture.

A powerfull external flash unit would help, but your subjects might
strongly object.

One problem I suspect you will encounter is that you will not be able
to take an low f stop picture at very fast shutter speeds.  Most
digital cameras use the aperture mechinism as the shutter as well.  At
very fast shutter speeds the aperture does not have time to open to
the lower f stops before having to close again.

Just play with it untill you find the best combination.

John
Oh yes! I can't spell worth crap so no need to comment on that.

On Sat, 24 May 2003 17:06:58 GMT, "fweddybear" <fweddybear@cox.net>
wrote:

>Hi everyone, I need a little help with something.  I was taking pictures at
>a karate tournament, and all the spectators are not blurry where the two
>people doing the moving around are blurry, especially if they are throwing a
>kick or blocking with their arms.  I think i need to get the image on the
>film faster, but am not sure how to accomplish this.  I am using an Olympus
>digital C 2020 Z.  Most setting are automatic, but i understand these can be
>changed manually.  I am just not sure what settings to use.  Its great for
>taking still shots, but once you introduce motion, well the pics don't come
>ot as great.  I have examples of the pics if anyone would like to see what i
>am talking about.  Any ideas would certainly be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Fwed
>