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Martial Arts
When one thinks of martial arts one usually thinks of only the most popular East Asian versions:
- The hundreds of different Chinese styles mistakenly labeled as Kung Fu only and not Kung Fu, Wushu, Kuoshu.
- Japanease Judo & Karate
- Korean Tae Kwon Do
List of martial
arts
The Martial Arts is much more than these popular styles and is far more diverse and wide spread, in these countries and around the world. There are literally hundreds of styles of the Martial Arts world wide. Some of wish might even surprise you such as boxing and wrestling. They too fit the definition of what is considered as the Martial arts. "And what is that definition you are referring to," you may wonder. Well, I define Martial Arts as equally a science as well as an art, although it only contain the word "Arts" in its collective name. It is therefore, in my opinion, the art and science of self defence of the human organism from external attacks through the use of non ballistic hand weapons and or the body, mind and sprit in a systematic, precise and calculated fashion.
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More about Martial Law taken from Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_art
Excerpts
Martial arts, also known as fighting
systems, are bodies of codified practices or traditions of unarmed and
armed Combat,
usually without the use of Guns and other modern weapons. They
are often taught today with the goal of developing both the character of the
practitioner and the mindful, appropriate, controlled use of bodily force.
The martial arts, perhaps due to a half-century of dramatic portrayals in
popular media (see orientalism), have been
inextricably bound in the Western imagination to East Asian cultures and people.
Martial arts are by no means unique to Asia, however. Humans around the
world have always had to develop ways to defend themselves from attack, often
without weapons. As a result, there are many martial arts known and practiced;
for further information on a particular art, see the List of martial
arts.
"Martial arts" was translated in 1920 in Takenobu's Japanese-English Dictionary from Japanese
bu-gei or bu-jutsu (武術) that means "the craft/accomplishment
of Military
affairs". This definition is translated directly from the Chinese term, Wushu (Py wǔ shù, Cantonese,
mou seut), literally, "martial art", meaning all manner of Chinese
martial arts.
This term is slightly anomalous in its English usage. Its strict meaning
should be "arts for military use" (flying Fighter aircraft, Sniper training, and
so forth) but in normal usage it is used to refer to formalized systems of
training to fight without modern technology. It is nevertheless valuable to
distinguish between fighting systems intended for soldiers in battle (even
without modern technology) and fighting systems intended for sport or for
self-defense. The technical characteristics of these three kinds of fighting
system are rather different. Please note: There are no copyright restrictions for content retrived from http://en.wikipedia.org. Please visit them for details.
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