As I'm sure we all know by now, Europe had its own collection of martial arts. There's a number of interesting discussions over on reddit. This is an interesting one posted this week.
Anyway, while explaining why people care more about Eastern Martial Arts than Western Martial arts, someone posted the following idea. It is really cool.
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Anyway, while explaining why people care more about Eastern Martial Arts than Western Martial arts, someone posted the following idea. It is really cool.
Movies and Hollywood further cemented the exotic East Asian martial arts and popularized them. Nobody's made a movie of a plucky young French Knight in training using the best secrets of a German fencing manual brought to him by an old sword master to right injustice and fight the bitter and disillusioned just-returned-from-a-Vatican-prison Knight Templar in a final epic battle. But there are hundreds of similarly themed Kung Fu and Karate movies. Ninja mania in the 1980s finally cemented the role of East Asian martial arts in the public's mind and fully pushed Western traditional arts out completely.