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  Silat

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  Shidokan

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  Ssireum

  Ssireum (also called Sirum, Korean: 씨름) is a Korean wrestling style and is the traditional national sport of Korea. In the modern form each contestant wears a belt that wraps around the waist and the thigh. The competition employs a series of techniques, which inflict little harm or injury to the...
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  Vovinam

  Vovinam Việt Võ Đạo-越武道 is a Vietnamese martial art. Vovinam is practiced with and without weapons. It is based on the principle of between hard and soft. It includes training of the body as well as the mind. It uses force and reaction of the opponent. The name is a portmanteau of Vo (Võ): meaning ...
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  Hwa Rang Do

  Hwa Rang Do is a Korean martial art that was created by Joo Bang Lee and his brother, Joo Sang Lee. This martial art teaches and encourages fighting techniques, weapons, spiritual training, intellectual enhancement, and artistic pursuits. It has a very involved technique structure. The name Hwa...
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  Pencak Silat

  Pencak silat is an umbrella term for the martial arts of Indonesia. It is also spelled penchak silat or pentjak silat. The head organisation of pencak silat in Indonesia is PERSILAT. Pencak silat was chosen in 1948 as a unifying term for the Indonesian fighting styles. It was a compound of the two...
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  Modern Arnis

  Modern Arnis is the system of Filipino martial arts founded by the late Remy Presas as a self-defense system. His goal was to create an injury-free training method as well as an effective self-defense system in order to preserve the older Arnis systems. The term Modern Arnis was also used by Remy...
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  Hapkido

  Hapkido (also spelled hap ki do or hapki-do) is a dynamic and eclectic Korean martial art. It is a form of self-defense that employs joint locks, techniques of other martial arts, as well as common unskilled attacks. There is also the of use traditional weapons, including the short stick, cane,...

• Russian All-Round Fighting

  Russian All-Round Fighting (RAF) is a hybrid martial art consisting of various Russian and Soviet fighting systems. The system was founded by three men: Maxim Shatunov, Eduard Sergeev and Denis Rojkov. RAF clubs are functioning in many Russian cities. RAF Federation HQ is based in Saratov, Russia...

• Daito-ryu

  Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu (大東流合気柔術), originally called Daitō-ryū Jujutsu (大東流柔術, Daitō-ryū Jūjutsu), is a Japanese martial art that first became widely known in the early 20th century under the headmastership of Takeda Sokaku. Takeda had extensive training in several martial arts (including Kashima...