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Originally Posted by DeStRuCtIkOn Then why all the recent attention to it? Did some curious martial artist(s) catch a whiff of it and actually think it might contain some never-before-known secret to self defense? |
To be honest Des, I don't think a lot of it is recent. As Voodue says, it's a subject that seems to come up in the MA community every so often, but quickly dies down when people continually come up against brick walls in researching it further. I think it all started after
Lethal Weapon and has come and gone like the tide ever since.
Voodue, I too am interested in knockin' and kickin'. Difficult one to research though isn't it? I don't know if you've seen this article, but it goes into a little detail about it:
http://ejmas.com/jalt/jaltart_long_1203.html
Also, I don't know if you've read
Martial Arts in the Modern World. It has a couple of small bits on the style. (Though it's an excellent book all round and I'd recommend it to any MAist, regardless of style.)