So far I have learned that it is a type/style of Kung Fu, that it's from Southern China, and that it only has 2 katas. There's some chap in Southern California teaching it, but I was looking for a mo...
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I was searching the web for some videos and somehow happened across this. It's a relatively recently revised document on many of the various styles of FMA.
A little info on FMA:
Most people wh...
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This is not about KMA=2000 years. So anyone who came here for perverse pleasure of TKD/KMA bashing. Please go away.
Now, I know few people who have actually seen Taekyon commented that it is a f...
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At the Gracie Jiu-jitsu website they clam that all grappling arts come from gracie jiu-jitsu. Are they insane .
Gracie Academy on ESPN report
Gracie Cruise 2005
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Shotokan practitioner challenged by Capoeiristas while working in Brazil (about 1955-1958).
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During his stay in São Paulo, Harada also discovered the Brazilian fight...
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http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/maste...wrestling.html
Found this on ARMA.
A WMA manual with groundfighting!
Interestingly, it includes theory but not technique. Tell me it isn't the whole thing....
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Talking to some BJJ addicts, they said BJJ is judo before it was modified for faster bouts at the Olympics. Can anybody add to this?...
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I was told by a guy that taught Aikido that Bodi Dharma was an African. I had thought he was from India so I did a little research and everything I found said he was from India. One day while watching...
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Hey,
As part of some research I'm doing, I'm trying to track down the 20th Century history of point sparring. I've seen people make claims on numerous forums that it's an American innovation. It s...
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The Wikipedia article on Kano says
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Kano allegedly died of Pneumonia in 1938, aboard the SS Hikawa Maru after attending an IOC conference, promoting Judo as an Olympic ...
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Quoting from an interesting article:
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In addition to a standard syllabus in 1906 Kodokan Judo for the first time established a standard Dogi, (...
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In the book "Budo: Teachings of the Founder of Aikido" is said that Morihei Ueshiba and Yosaburo Uno, a 10 Dan Kyudo (Japanese archery) master, were decorated by the Emperor of Japan, Hirohi...
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Robert Roy MacGregor
Donald McBane
Border Reivers
Basket-hilted broadswords & backswords (claymores)
Targes
Dirks
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I was having a conversation with my Maori neighbour regarding MA. He has done a Japanese style and screams like a little girl when I apply wrestling holds (no, not really).
He said that he has never ...
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Greetings
I have been training Choygar kungfu for a few years and Im trying to find some more history on the style or rather just people who know of any trace of it and at the same time share what...
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An interesting story about Kano is this -- when once he was on a voyage to Europe via the Indian Ocean, there was a huge, muscular Russian on board the steamer who challenged anybody to a wrestling ma...
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http://www.budokwai.org/budokwaiframepg.htm
Gunji Koizumi, founder of the Budokai...
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Kinda out of my league, but i was reading a book that talks about kukishen ryu. Claimes its the only true form of Ninjutsu, or more so that its the only pure form.
Any of you that know way more tha...
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Hello and let me start by saying this post is for discussion and informa...
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We all know Glima is legitimate, but what of loose-grips Scandinavian wrestling, weapon arts and the proper method of going berserk?
Stav doesn't enter into it. I consider it racist, as a person with...
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Was there ever any Chinese equivalent of Japanese Ninja's?
I know that every country has always had assassins of some sort, just wasn't sure if there was particular name for the Chinese ones?...
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Given that I am researching, which schools of ninjitsu are real and which are fake?
Ashida Kim's an obvious posterior helmet, but what about other people?...
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Real Jeet Kune Do:
As a practicioner of JFJKD and student of MA as a whole and unified artless art I am proud to introduce everybody to the real sphere of JFJKD:
Wellcome to Jun Fan Jeet Kun...
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I am going to be shooting a documentry on 3 x muay thai world champ Mike Miles and was wondering if there's any thing you guys would like to know for when I interview him? Or if anyone has any info on...
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Why is it that Asian Martial arts utilize kicks while Western Martial Arts don't seem to?
The only Western Martial Arts I'm aware of are boxing, wrestling and fencing, I'm sure they're more.
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