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Timeshift - Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of Martial Arts in Britain

Brilliant doc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk228M1s4qA

Great find Graham - thank you. If I was going to run an awards ceremony for MA's in Britain - these guys would be high on my list of nominees.

I was interviewd and filmed for this as well as Jim Uglow, covering the chinese arts

I ffw it, seems a bit sad theres no mention of catch wrestling at all (or did I miss it?)

Meh, first two thirds are almost exclusively about Japanese arts, kungfu only gets mentioned at the 44 minute mark in a 58 minute show!

I like the early research on Bartitsu, I remember an article in Asian MA some years ago, and also another one on Fairbarn.I did some Judo/JJ in London in the late 50's. Kung Fu was virtually unheard of until the late 60's, I was studying Tang so do and went to a KF exhibition in 1968, at that time I had never heard of it. By 1970 it was becoming better known but mostly in the USA on the west coast, I wrote a couple of articles around 1970 for Paul Cromptons MA magazine, at that time I checked around London but the CMA was closed to westerners [I remember Greco Wong had a book on Wing Chun around that time]

bartekb wrote:I ffw it, seems a bit sad theres no mention of catch wrestling at all (or did I miss it?)

that needs a different title: the decline of British martial arts in Britain.