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- From: toman@bovine.uoregon.edu (J. Toman)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Just Curious...
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:38:37 GMT
- Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
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- In article <1992Dec21.194505.12371@ns.network.com> hahn@plugh.network.com (Peter Hahn) writes:
- >In article <50040221@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry) writes:
- >>
- >>The Koreans, as do the Japanese and Chinese and ..., like to claim that they
- >>can trace the martial arts "in their homeland" back to some very early date
- >>in history.
- >
- >Nor are they the only ones. I've seen all sorts of sources trying to
- >draw a link between modern day Western boxing and the sort that was
- >practiced in the ancient Greek Olympics. Nope. Present day boxing
- >dates back to the end of the 1700's, no more.
-
- So say two Gallic types wanted to brain one another but there weren't
- any tools handy ; what did they do ? I find it difficult to believe
- that with all that fighting that happened on the European continent,
- someone somewhere didn't develop a stylised method of unarmed fighting
- before the late 1700's. It might not have been 'boxing' , but there
- were moves in there that turned in to 'boxing' . I guess your last
- statement is just a bit discontinuous for me, and I'd need to hear
- your history of boxing to believe it.
-
- J. Toman
-