While many people today are familiar at least with the term karate,
it was not always this way. In fact, karate as we know it today is much
different than how it started. Karate has often been used as a generic term to
encompass all oriental-based martial arts. This started because it World War 2,
many United States servicemen were stationed in Okinawa, where the discipline
originated.
It was not long before interest in the discipline spread to
America, who used the powerful media tool known as Hollywood to really raise
awareness of the art. In the 1960s and 1970s, the abundance of martial arts
movies would make karate become one of the most popular disciplines around.
This is because movies were depicting karate as a powerful striking art that
melded the mind and the body together. This caused karate schools to begin
erupting all around the world as demand for the discipline skyrocketed. What
was once a casual interest became a deeper fascination with the art itself.
The problem with karate’s rise in popularity is that many movies
depicted the discipline as a powerful and enigmatic fighting
style that could kill or incapacitate somebody in a single blow. This caused
many misconceptions and warped the actual discipline of karate into some
strange mutation by the mass media. Karate was established as a discipline that
helps you combat the inner self through training and creativity. Its sole
purpose was not to quickly dispatch an enemy.
Dr Leslie Griesdorf is a professional dentist who spends his
free-time studying the discipline of karate.
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