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CURIOUS THINGS
ISSUE FIFTEEN |
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Dear Reader,
In this issue of CURIOUS THINGS... |
G.I.-DO RYU
Development of Okinawan Karate In America |
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The returning GI's and especially the American Karate Pioneers were inherently geniuses with regard to anything martial. Before their Karate training on Okinawa, they were already well-trained, Western martial artists with significant training in boxing and military combatives. What they learned of Okinawan Karate was intelligently integrated into an already impressive martial understanding, and the results were amazing to their new and earnest state-side students. READ MORE |
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ONE UNDERSTANDING:
THE ETHNOLOGY OF MARTIAL-ARTS
TECHNIQUES & KATA |
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Some of us are curious, and not given to investing ourselves into anything that is easily found...
or on the surface. I am convinced from my years in martial-arts training that there is something to be found--something to be inspired by that is far different than just...fighting...blocking and striking, or walking through a dance pattern.
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