History: Karate comes to America - an Archived Episode

About this episode

This episode discusses the history of Karate's introduction to America and revisits previous topics related to martial arts.

This episode first aired in 2020. In fact it was our 19th episode! (This is our 330th:) Most of the things we mentioned in this episode we have subsequently discussed. Here are a few. When we talked about Judo, we mentioned women in training back at the beginning of the 1900s. (The memory of that episode makes me smile.) Here's a link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/5247724 We mentioned (and how could you not!) Mas Oyama. Here's the epiosde we reorded on him: https://www.buzzsprou...

Topics covered

• Karate
• History
• Martial Arts
• Judo
• Women in Training

Keywords

• Mas Oyama
• 1900s
• Archived Episode

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Karate, Judo

Places: America

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