PARTICULARS Golf Karate Boxing

Charles Blair
WHO MacDonald Gi chin Christopher Monck
INVENTED/
Funakoshi
DISCOVERED

1905 1681
WHEN IT WAS 1744
INVENTED/DISCOVERE
D

Okinawa
WHEN IT WAS St. Andrews Britain
Japan
INVENTED/DISCOVERE
D Scotland

Golf originated from a Karate, the Japanese As the wearing of swords

game played on the word for “empty hands,” became less common,
eastern coast of was born in the there was renewed
Scotland, in an area Okinawan Islands as a interest in fencing with
close to the royal capital form of self-defense, at a the fists. The sport later
WHY IT WAS INVENTED of Edinburgh. In those time when weapons were resurfaced in England
 early days players would
attempt to hit a pebble
over sand dunes and
around tracks using a
bent stick or club.
The modern
game originated in
Scotland, where the
first written record of
golf is James II's
HOW IT WAS INVENTED banning of the game in
1457, as an
unwelcome distraction
to learning archery.
[8]
 James IV lifted the
ban in 1502 when he
became a golfer
himself, with golf clubs
first recorded in 1503–
1504: "For golf clubbes
and balles to the King
that he playit with".[9] To
many golfers, the Old
Course at St Andrews,
a links course dating to
before 1574, is
considered to be a site
of pilgrimage.[10] In
1764, the standard 18-
hole golf course was
created at St Andrews
when members
modified the course
from 22 to 18 holes.
Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf#Origin_and_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing#:~:text=The%20first%20boxing%20rules
%2C%20called,ring%20where%20deaths%20sometimes%20occurred.
banned by invading during the early 16th
Japanese forces. It began century in the form
as te (hand), a fighting of bare-knuckle boxing,
style used by the natives sometimes referred to
of the Ryukyu Islands, as prizefighting.
and was later influenced
by Chinese kenpō,
introduced through the
Chinese families that
settled on Okinawa after
trade relationships
between China and the
islands were established.
Master Gi Records of classical
chin Funakoshi was the boxing activity
first expert to introduce disappeared after the
Karate-do to fall of the
mainland Japan, in Western Roman
Empire when the
1916. One of the few
people to have been wearing of weapons
initiated into all the became common once
major Okinawan Karate again and interest in
fighting with the fists
methods, Master
waned. However, there
Funakoshi taught a
are detailed records of
synthesis of
various fist-fighting
the Okinawan styles, as sports that were
a total discipline. This maintained in different
method became known cities and provinces of
as Shotokan (literally Italy between the 12th
"house/school (kan) of and 17th centuries.
pine waces (shoto - There was also a sport
Funakoshi's pen in ancient
name)” ). Because of the Rus called kulachniy
great popularity of the boy or 'fist fighting'.
style in Japan and, later,
around the world,
Funakoshi is widely
considered to be the
"father of modern
Karate-do."