Japanese Pop

Kyudo, Kyokushin Karate, Shootfighting, Puroresu

Kyudo

This system is based archery techniques bowmanship ancient hunters and warriors, but nowadays practiced mainly in the physical and spiritual.

This traditional martial arts have decreased, the teachers the military arts have found jobs and begun to teach the skills that civilians have been developed. With the advent of this new profession has come into being in the art artistic, intellectual, spiritual and martial.

There are basically two important aspects of Kyudo, the military wing and the ceremony of the industry. While the study of art was banned by the occupation forces in Japan after the Second World War in 1949, the All Nippon Kyudo Federation was formed and a manual has been published to encode practice.

Kyokushin Karate

It is a violent form of full contact karate includes head kicks, head butts and punches. The founder, Masutatsu Oyama, led a colorful life, and believes that the improvement could be self – obtained through hard training and discipline. A Korean immigrant in Japan, suffered a series Oyama of careers related to humiliating beatings, This leads to a nervous breakdown. He retired to the mountains for several years, where he went through a brutal regime that included training to pitch against the rocks, carrying heavy loads, and the fight with bears and bulls.

Kyokushin professional fight without gloves or protective vests, saying that protection reduces realism. However, in competition, are prohibited head, elbow, hand and hit her head and neck.

Although moderate injuries are common, the bass is very rare. The most frequent injuries are fractures combatants, especially the sternum, clavicle fracture, bruising and general.

In 2004, a successful film was made in Korea, based on the life of Masutatsu Oyama. Same if the movie is not a real biography (the story has all the elements of an action film from Hong Kong, with a strong dose of sentimentality and melodrama often associated with the Korean film), captures the spirit of man and has a great respect for the sequences that inspires the martial arts. The film also benefits from excellent choreography and photography.

Shootfighting

Created in response to the wave of popularity in Japan kickboxing, throwing boxing and wrestling techniques include.

The Governing Council, was established in 1985 Shooto Organization. International competitions are common and are governed by the International Association of Anti-Shoot (ISFA).

Onslaught head biting, and striking in the groin or the back of the head are considered errors, as well as attacking an opponent who is down or recovering from a fall. A victory is decided on points, when a boxer can not continue, it violates the rules, the referee to judge the game too dangerous to continue, or if a knockout or technical knockout.

Puroresu

Fetched less than their American and British counterparts, Japanese equivalent of the World Wrestling Federation uses a series of movements similar to those of fire fighting.

First fighter for Japan was a former sumo Sorakichi Matsuda. Although not particularly successful, is attributed to the popular sport. It was not until the arrival of television in 1951 that Japan had its first Star Pro Wrestling, Rikidozan.

The matches take place in a square ring. Like other forms of Control of spectators, participants often climb and jump over the ropes or using the elasticity of the ropes as a springboard aa to launch his opponent. The matches are won by knockout, submission, count the rings, or association.

Variations on the standard ring is six-sided ring and the ring with barbed wire instead of rope.

This is considered extremely dangerous for the health of the game, but not lead cuts and wounds in the flesh of lesser importance to its competitors, adding an element of bloodlust.

There is also a female branch of art which is gaining popularity, known as Joshi Puroresu.

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