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E-book Black Dragon : Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

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In August 1969, a group of local Japanese martial arts masters in New York invited Ronald Duncan, a burgeoning Black1 American practitioner of the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu, commonly translated as the “art of stealth,” to exhibit his techniques as part of the second International Convention of Martial Arts hosted by Black Belt magazine at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.2Eager to test and display their skills through competitions and demonstra-tions, practitioners from the US and Asia participated in the three-day event, which primarily consisted of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese martial arts. Duncan’s performance surprised and impressed his audience. His virtuosity in the use of joint locks, kicks, strikes, and throwing techniques of ninjutsu was outstanding. But, it was Duncan’s performative aesthetic use of ninjutsu daggers, blow darts, and shuriken (metal stars meant to be thrown at a per-son, as seen in Figure 0.2) that wowed the spectators in attendance, many of whom were martial arts practitioners of one capacity or another. Duncan’s most impressive and signature demonstration technique was grabbing an arrow out of midair that was fired at him from a bow at close range. The tech-nical and spectacular display of weaponry demonstrated Duncan’s mastery not only of the objects that he used and the bodies of the performers that he demonstrated on but also of the secret knowledge of the unconventional and guerilla warfare of Japanese ninjutsu. Born in Panama in 1937, Duncan was a former US Marine who had trained in Marine Judo at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Duncan subsequently relocated to New York and was introduced to koga-ryu ninjutsu, vis-à-vis a confluence of US and Asian teachers. Duncan learned boxing in Panama as a child, and his practice in judo at Lejeune gave him a solid foundation in throwing techniques as well as ne waza (the art of ground fighting). Duncan was small in stature and easily under six feet. Yet, with his quick movements, darting in and around his opponents as they tried to attack him, Duncan’s demeanor commanded respect. Everything about him was martial, drawing on what could be defined as budo seishin (martial spirit).

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No. Panggil

791.43 PRI b

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USA : The Ohio State University Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

239 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780814214602

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791.43

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text

Tipe Media

computer

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online resource

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Motion Pictures, Movies

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