Karate's ambiguity: Traditional martial art or modern combat sport
After a radical conversion of the old Okinawan, anti-samurai martial art toti in the 1920s, a new, in effect Japanese modern combat sport, karate, came into being. The very first karate sports contest already took place in 1930. But, at the end of 1950s, karate started to be exported to the Western...
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Universidad de León
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas |
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| Online Access: | http://revpubli.unileon.es/index.php/artesmarciales/article/view/6000 |