Sport English
Sports that originally began elsewhere, such as tennis , were modernized and exported as if they too were raw materials imported for British industry to transform and then export as finished goods. Its unarmed techniques were especially prized within Chinese culture and were an important influence on the martial arts of Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Much less well known in the West are varma adi (“hitting the vital spots”) and other martial arts traditions of South Asia. In the early modern era, as unarmed combat became obsolete, the emphasis of Asian martial arts tended to shift back toward religion. Japanese kenjutsu (“techniques of the sword”) became kendō (“the way of the sword”). It is unlikely that the 7th-century Islamic conquest of North Africa radically altered the traditional sports of the region.
- Last month, ACSM joined more than 30 other organizations in signing a letter requesting at least $2 million
