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On a totally diiferent note to your urgent thread, mate...... I´m extremely interested in Japanese martial arts.... especially "Koryu" - old styles. Did you ever get interested in it over there? See any good demonstrations etc? I´m in a club here in Irealnd and my instructors go over every year but they always note how its in decline over there. Just looking to get a local angle on it |
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I was always more into kickboxing and Muay Thai actually. I tried a bit of shorinji kempo but got bored from doing forward rolls all the time.. I preferred the immediacy (some might say lack of discipline) of the Thai style over North East Asian styles.. Dont know if it is in decline. Kendo is very popular is schools, but I dont know that many people who do Judo or Karate or anything. Then again, pride and K-1 mixed martial arts are absolutely huge here, and the famous fighters are treated like film or rock stars. So I suppose people must still be learning - then again most of the really famous fighters in those styles are not Japanese. Sorry, cant really answer your questions - am no expert on this. Have you read a book called "Angry White Pyjhamas" - by Robert Twigger. He was an Oxford Poet who did an Aikido course for the Tokyo Riot Police - quite funny and a lot of interesting observations about Japan and martial arts etc. |
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