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students warmup. let me repeat, this is only the warmup. that does not look like fun. the exercises are designed to repeatedly punish your hands and feet and building up larger and stronger deposits around the bones, and basically weaponizing even your weakest extremities, and it hurts to even watch. this is bad. this is bad. james pangovich, a brit, moved to okinawa in 1989 to study the way of the martial arts, and he acts as translator for most of the karate sensei on the island.
as the setting of some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of the world war ii. how horrifying? for the allies more than 50,000 casualties with around 12,000 killed or missing in action over nearly three months of fighting. more than 100,000 japanese soldiers in okinawa conscripts were killed defending the the island. civilians were stuck in the middle middle of the two armies and they were crushed. no one will know for sure, but historians estimate that 150,000 men, women, children lost their lives during the battle. what most don t know is that okinawa had only become japan fairly recent ly, and that to a great extent oak gnaw wans did not consider themselves japanese or vice versa, and that okay gnaw wans and japanese considered themselves two different cultures and in most
difference? yes, near it. you know that right away and it is tattoo parlors and the strip clubs and a vape shop. gl and also, it is very loud. that is a big issue. tourism is probably the future of okinawa, and beautiful weather. beaches, and if the bases leave, it is big hotels and resorts and golf courses. what is worst? chinese tourists or american marines? i will stick with the marines. [ laughter ] is semper fi. not everyone agrees with vivian, because the marines may be easy going and laid back, but what okinawans see is high handed treatment of a central government with different
for a place with as bloody a history, okinawa to dday is mor noticeably laid back than the mainland, but it does not mean that everybody has forgotten the warrior traditions. when the futile empire invaded okinawa in 1609, they banned the carrying, manufacturer or use of weapons of any kind. the ban was later reinforced in 1879 when japan formally annexed the island. it is believed that the prohibitions led directly to the development of a new style of martial art, indisputably born in okinawa, karate or empty hands technique. its even more vicious cousin