When I was a kid, I used to think that savate was a joke, taken from "The Adventures of Tintin". I pronounced the word wrong, too. Actually, it´s a real martial art from France. Not only that, all those spectacular kicks we associate with "Japanese" karate are actually from savate! They were introduced to Japan by a French military mission assisting the Meiji regime to modernize the land of the rising sun.
Seriously, did White people invent *everything*? Modern yoga, modern meditation, and now karate?!
White Boy Summer all over again!
To be Fair there was and still is a few style of Karate with very little western influence. One of the old styles incorpoeated some Katas with flashy kicks just to keep recruiting new pupils.
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ReplyDeleteBut i bet Steve Morriss would be unimpresses by all the eye-pokes and throat and groib strikes in this style.
ReplyDelete"Hey idiot, if you can5 hit me in the head with a glove what makes you think you Will be able to hit me in the eye with a finger?". And then proceding to beat up another Okinaean mäster.