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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9022382" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>It started before that. During the 1890s, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C5%8D_Jigor%C5%8D" target="_blank">Kano Jigoro</a>, traveled to the United States an Europe teaching Judo. By 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt was practicing judo while in the White House. And then there's Sherlock Holmes who was a practicioner of Bartitsu, a martial arts developed from jujistsu, savate, fencing, boxing, and a few others I'm sure. And a lot of western militaries eventually started teaching their own versions of these martial arts to their soldiers. Of course Kano Jigoro's visit to the United States wasn't in a vacuum, there was a lot of cultural exchange going on between Japan and the west at the time, thank you Admiral Perry, and martial arts just happened to be included. Let's not forget about China. Certainly Americans noted the Chinse immigrants in the 1820s and 30s had their own style of boxing and wrestling, and kung-fu exhibitions started around the same time judo began to grip Americans.</p><p></p><p>I'm not a young man, so of course I'm a survivor of the Great Martial Arts Crazy of the 1970s and 80s. An era where the coolest kids had Chinese throwing stars and Todd, the 9th grader who smoked, had some nunchaku he was just waiting to bust out to take care of some fools if necessary. I think this craze was precipitated by the influx of motion pictures from both Japan and Hong Kong, China. Both countries had fairly robust film industries following the Second World War and were able to find audiences here in the United States. And let's face it, some of these movies were really cool. Have you ever seen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Deadly_Venoms" target="_blank"><em>The Five Deadly Venoms</em></a>? It's awesome! Japan in particular had many cartoons that were easy to translate for American audiences. In the 1960s Japanese like Speed Racer, Astroboy, and Gigantor were fairly popular. </p><p></p><p>If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say we like East Asia because they're the ones that sent us all those movies, cartoons, and comics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9022382, member: 4534"] It started before that. During the 1890s, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%C5%8D_Jigor%C5%8D']Kano Jigoro[/URL], traveled to the United States an Europe teaching Judo. By 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt was practicing judo while in the White House. And then there's Sherlock Holmes who was a practicioner of Bartitsu, a martial arts developed from jujistsu, savate, fencing, boxing, and a few others I'm sure. And a lot of western militaries eventually started teaching their own versions of these martial arts to their soldiers. Of course Kano Jigoro's visit to the United States wasn't in a vacuum, there was a lot of cultural exchange going on between Japan and the west at the time, thank you Admiral Perry, and martial arts just happened to be included. Let's not forget about China. Certainly Americans noted the Chinse immigrants in the 1820s and 30s had their own style of boxing and wrestling, and kung-fu exhibitions started around the same time judo began to grip Americans. I'm not a young man, so of course I'm a survivor of the Great Martial Arts Crazy of the 1970s and 80s. An era where the coolest kids had Chinese throwing stars and Todd, the 9th grader who smoked, had some nunchaku he was just waiting to bust out to take care of some fools if necessary. I think this craze was precipitated by the influx of motion pictures from both Japan and Hong Kong, China. Both countries had fairly robust film industries following the Second World War and were able to find audiences here in the United States. And let's face it, some of these movies were really cool. Have you ever seen [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Deadly_Venoms'][I]The Five Deadly Venoms[/I][/URL]? It's awesome! Japan in particular had many cartoons that were easy to translate for American audiences. In the 1960s Japanese like Speed Racer, Astroboy, and Gigantor were fairly popular. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say we like East Asia because they're the ones that sent us all those movies, cartoons, and comics. [/QUOTE]
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