Everybody was Kung Fu fighting: The 1970s craze in the North East

How a martial arts craze - kung fu, karate and judo - swept Britain and the North East in the 1970s and 80s Meaning "contact combat" in Hebrew, and originating in Bratislava, Slovakia, in the 1930s, it was first used by Jews to defend themselves against right-wing thuggery. Now enjoying a rise in the North East, it conjures up memories of the 1970s when the whole country went martial arts-crazy.