15th Jun 2008
Fake legs and anti-commie judo
Having been out of town for ages, then having relatives visiting us, it’s taking days to catch up on my RSS feeds. I had no idea I read so much stuff. Good thing I’m being downsized, I’ll have more time for reading random blogs!
Two nice short olde tyme things from Modern Mechanix… Leg Falsies from 1953 (as if small boobs weren’t enough, now we need to worry about curvaceous calf muscles) or an 1950 ad for Americanized Judo (you don’t want to accidentally learn that Godless Commie Judo, after all).
As a brown belt in judo, I ought to remember what the differences were between regular and Americanized. I think I learned both, at different dojos and different times, but whatever the American improvements were, they must have been minor to the point of irrelevancy.