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Show Student at SUSC offers lessons in art of Karata A class Ls Sutokan Karate Is being taught at Cedar High School Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday from 4 to 6 pjn. by Ted F. DeMille, brown belt karate expert. Class fee Is $10 iper month. DeMille has recently transferred trans-ferred to Southern Utah State College from Brigham Young University where he studied karate after becoming Interested Inter-ested in the sport while In the U. S. Navy from 1968 to 1970. BYU is credited with instituting institut-ing the first formal karate school In the nation in 1957. However, as Mr. DeMille explains, ex-plains, karate is an ancient art wWch can be traced as far back as 1100 B.C. The' earliest ear-liest written evidence of bare handed fighting art is mentioned men-tioned in the Buddhist Ancient Scripture, "Lotus Sutma." The early form is thought to have ibeen devised by a Buddhist-monk Buddhist-monk from India. The karate form was introduced intro-duced to China In approxi mately 520 A.D. by Bodhadhar-am Bodhadhar-am a, father of Zen-Buddhism. This ancient art was known as Ch U an fa (pronounced Gung Foo). It was then and is now, a very well kept secret among its devotees. The kcmpo form of the sport was introduced to the U.S. in 1957 when Howard Parker, a student at BYU, ls said to have organized the first karate school in this country, However, according to Mr. DeMille, the first karate was brought to the US. in 1956 when Tsutomu Ashlma opened his Shutokan Karate School in Los Angeles, Calif. Today, there are estimated to be some 150 karate schools in America. Mr. DeMille said this is a conservative figure when it is realized that any black belt holder is free to continue in his style or to change the name and style of the art he sees fit. The course is open to the public TED F. DEMILLE Brown belt In Karate |