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| The New York Times Discovers the Ancient Greek Art Of Karate |
| 2018-08-20 |
| The ancient Greek karate style known as pankration offers time-tested lessons on aging well. He, along with a handful of other men, have been practicing routines like this for more than 40 years, under the careful supervision of George Gonis, who runs the small, second-floor gym where they sweat off several pounds during each 90-minute session. All have been training in the ancient Greek karate style known as pankration with Mr. Gonis, some on and off, since their teens or early 20s. Each series of Greek karate maneuvers, such as the "form" Dr. Daffner demonstrated recently, tells a story from ancient Greece. Remember...they're smarter than you and should get to run the world without any backsass. |
| Posted by:charger |
| #6 The NewYork Times sucks. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-08-20 22:05 |
| #5 Any martial art, line dancing, aerobics... any kind of physical exercise that uses a combination of memorized movements done for at least twenty minutes at a time to get an aerobic effect will provode the healthful benefits that the New York Times journalist ascribes to a martial arts style so exotic that most of the fifty states don’t have a single instructor. But the NYT works ever to promote status anxiety by fawning over something most cannot have in the exact form described. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-20 21:05 |
| #4 I fondly remember years of 'empty hand' training in the 70s. Working katas, sparring to exhaustion and a soaking wet gi. Good for them. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-08-20 11:15 |
| #3 Ouzo following kleftiko...or even before, no problem. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-08-20 07:29 |
| #2 I thought Greek Karate involved Ouzo? |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-08-20 07:20 |
| #1 Karate, from Okinawa (Shotokan), means 'empty hand'. Martial arts date back to mainland China for about 2 millennia. These people are fucking morons for peddling this codswallop. The only Greek karate I might remotely be familiar would involve buggering your fellow man, if ya know what I mean. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-08-20 00:34 |