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| x Krav Maga |
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Hybrid | Kobi Lichtenstein | Israel |
Krav Maga (pronounced /ˌkrɑːv məˈɡɑː/; Hebrew: קרב מגע, IPA: [ˈkʁav maˈɡa], lit. "contact combat" or "close combat") is an eclectic hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel. It was derived from street-fighting skills developed by Imi...
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| Strike | Eyal Yanilov | ||||
| Grappling | Haim Gidon | ||||
| Imi Lichtenfeld | |||||
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| x Karate |
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Strike | Dolph Lundgren | Ryukyu Kingdom |
Karate (空手) (Japanese pronunciation: [kaɽate] ( listen), English: /kəˈrɑːtiː/) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) from indigenous fighting methods called te (手, literally: "hand") and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art...
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| Jean-Claude Van Damme | |||||
| x Taekwondo |
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Strike | Dae Sung Moon | Korea |
Taekwondo (태권도; 跆拳道; Korean pronunciation: [tʰɛkwʌndo]) is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae (태, 跆) means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon (권, 拳) means "to strike or break with fist"; and do (도, 道) means ...
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| x Shaolin kung fu |
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China |
Shaolin Kung Fu refers to a collection of Chinese martial arts that claim affiliation with the Shaolin Monastery. Of the tens of thousands of kung fu wushu styles, several hundred might have some relationship to Shaolin; however, aside from a few...
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| x Tai Chi Chuan |
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Internal | China |
Tai chi chuan (simplified Chinese: 太极拳; traditional Chinese: 太極拳; pinyin: tàijíquán; Wade-Giles: t'ai chi ch'üan) is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for health reasons. Tai chi is typically practiced for a variety of other personal...
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| x Boxing |
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Strike | Mike Tyson | England |
Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are...
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| x Hwa Rang Do |
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Hybrid | Joo Sang Lee | Korea |
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...
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| x Wing Chun |
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Chin Na | Yip Man | China |
Wing Chun (Chinese: 詠春; pinyin: Yǒng chūn; literally "Eternal Spring"), also romanized as Ving Tsun or "Wing Tsun" (and sometimes substituted with the characters for "eternal springtime") is a Chinese martial art that specializes in close-range...
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| Trapping | Bruce Lee | ||||
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| x Jeet Kune Do |
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Strike | Bruce Lee | China |
Jeet Kune Do (Chinese: 截拳道 Cantonese: Jitkyùndou Pinyin: Jiéquándào, lit. "Way of the Intercepting Fist," also "Jeet Kun Do","JKD," or "Jeek Kune Do"), is a martial art and life philosophy founded by Bruce Lee. Unlike more traditional martial arts,...
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| x Catch wrestling |
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Grappling | Karl Istaz | United States of America |
Catch wrestling is a style of Folk wrestling made popular in the late 19th century by the wrestlers of traveling carnivals who incorporated submission holds, or "hooks", into their wrestling to increase their effectiveness against their opponents....
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| Frank Shamrock | Europe | ||||
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| x Muay Thai |
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Strike | Marco Ruas | Thailand |
Muay Thai (Thai: มวยไทย, RTGS: Muai Thai, IPA: [muɛ̄j tʰɑ̄j], lit. Thai Boxing) is a form of hard martial art practiced in large parts of the world, including Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. The art is similar to others in Southeast...
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| Ramon Dekkers | |||||
| Thiago Alves | |||||
| x San shou |
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Hybrid | Cung Le | China |
Sanshou (Chinese: 散手; pinyin: sǎnshǒu; literally "free hand") or Sanda (Chinese: 散打; pinyin: sǎndǎ; literally "free fighting") is a Chinese hand to hand combat, self-defense system, and combat sport. Not seen as a style itself, but is rather...
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| Grappling | Brent Hamby | ||||
| Strike | Scott Sonnon | ||||
| Marvin Perry | |||||
| x Aikido |
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Grappling | Morihei Ueshiba | Japan |
Aikido (合気道, aikidō) is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying (with) life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious...
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| Kisshomaru Ueshiba | |||||
| Moriteru Ueshiba | |||||
| Gōzō Shioda | |||||
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| x Capoeira |
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Strike | Mestre Pastinha | West Africa |
Capoeira (pronounced /ˌkæpɵˈɛrə/) is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, music, and dance. It was created in Brazil by slaves brought from Africa, especially from present day Angola some time after the 16th century. It...
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| Mestre Bimba | Brazil | ||||
| x Sambo |
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Hybrid | Oleg Taktarov | Soviet Union |
Sambo (Russian: самбо—also called Sombo or Cambo and sometimes written in all-caps) is a relatively modern martial art, combat sport and self-defense system developed in the Soviet Union and recognized as an official sport by the USSR All-Union...
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| Andrei Arlovski | |||||
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| x Bokator |
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Strike | Sean Kim San | Khmer Empire |
Bokator, or more formally, Labokatao ល្បុក្កតោ is a Cambodian martial art that includes close hand-to-hand combat, ground techniques and weapons. Bokator is one of the earliest Cambodian martial art and only younger than the Mon-Khmer martial art of...
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| x Vovinam |
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Grappling | Vietnam |
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...
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| x Russian All-Round Fighting | Grappling | Russia |
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...
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| x Hapkido |
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Strike | Lim Hyun Soo | Korea |
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...
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| x Judo |
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Grappling | Japan |
Judo (柔道, jūdō), meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either...
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| x Bartitsu |
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Hybrid | Edward William Barton-Wright | England |
Bartitsu is an eclectic martial art and self-defense method originally developed in England during the years 1898–1902. In 1901 it was immortalised (as "baritsu") by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. Although...
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| x Northern Shaolin | Strike | Henan |
At its most specific, Northern Shaolin refers to the style disseminated by Gu Ruzhang (Cantonese Ku Yu Cheung). In its broadest sense, Northern Shaolin (Chinese: 北少林; Pinyin: běishàolín, Cantonese: Bak Sil Lum) refers to the external (as opposed to...
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| x Vo Binh Dinh | Nguyen Hue | Vietnam |
Tay Son Binh Dinh (Tây Sơn Bình Định) is a traditional vietnamese martial art.
Võ Bình Định originates from the Bình Định province, one of two provinces that formerly constituted the province of Nghia Binh.
It is practiced for good health, sound...
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| x Shorinji Kempo |
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Tadotsu |
Shorinji Kempo (少林寺拳法, Shōrinji Kenpō)—note that the World Shorinji Kempo Organization prefers the Romanization kempo to kenpo—is a martial art form of Kempo that was founded by Doshin So (宗道臣, 1911-1980) in 1947, who incorporated Japanese Zen...
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| x Silat |
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Weapon | Malay Archipelago |
Silat Melayu is a blanket term for the types of silat created in peninsular Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and Singapore. The term is most often used to differentiate Malaysian styles from Indonesian pencak silat.
The...
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| x Savate |
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Strike | Pierre Vigny | France |
Savate (French pronunciation: [savat]), also known as boxe française, French boxing, French Kickboxing or French Footfighting, is a French martial art which uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of western boxing with graceful...
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| x Bâton français | Strike | France |
The Bâton français, French for "French staff", also known as French stick fighting, is a European historical fencing discipline which uses a staff about 1.2 m long (4 ft). The techniques have much in common with longsword and quarterstaff.
The...
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| x Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
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Grappling | Carlos Gracie | Brazil |
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and ground fighting. It was derived from the Japanese martial art of Kodokan Judo in the early 20th century, which was itself then a recently-developed system (founded...
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| Rickson Gracie | |||||
| Hélio Gracie | |||||
| Renzo Gracie | |||||
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| x Egyptian stick fencing | Weapon | Egypt |
Tahtib (Egyptian Arabic: تحطيب taḥṭīb) is a martial art that originated in Egypt. It relies primarily on the use of a wooden stick for striking, defensive or dodging techniques.
The complete Arabic name of Tahtib is "Fann el Nazaha Wal Tahtib" which...
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| x Soobak | Strike | Korea |
Subak, Soobak or Soo Bak-Gi is either a specific ancient Korean martial art, or a general ancient Sino-Korean term ("shoubo" in Chinese) for barehand martial arts. Historically this term may have specified the old Korean martial art of taekkyeon....
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| x Kurash |
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Grappling | Uzbekistan |
Kurash is a form of upright jacket wrestling native to Uzbekistan, practiced since ancient times. It is a Turkic wrestling art, related to the Turkish yağlı güreş and the Tatar Köräş. It is an event in the Asian Games.
There is an effort to include...
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| x Glima |
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Grappling | Iceland |
Glíma is the Icelandic national style of amateur Folk wrestling.
There are four points that differentiate it from other forms of wrestling:
Glima remains, as it always has been, friendly recreation and a gentleman's sport, but as the lösatags...
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| x Silambam |
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Weapon | Kerala |
Silambam (Tamil: சிலம்பம்) or silambattam (Tamil: சிலம்பாட்டம்) is a weapon-based Dravidian martial art from Tamil Nadu in south India but also practiced by the Tamil community of Malaysia. It is closely related to kalaripayat, particularly the...
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| x Mongolian wrestling |
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Grappling | Mongolia |
Mongolian wrestling (Mongolian: бөх, Bökh meaning strength, solidarity and durability) is a martial art and a traditional style of Folk wrestling that has been practiced in Mongolia for nearly 2,000 years. Wrestling is the most important of the...
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| x Bando kickboxing | Strike | Maung Gyi | Myanmar | ||
| x Ninjutsu |
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Ronald Duncan | Japan |
Ninjutsu (忍術) sometimes used interchangeably with the term ninpō (忍法) is the martial art, strategy, and tactics of unconventional warfare and guerrilla warfare as well as the art of espionage purportedly practiced by the shinobi (commonly known...
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| x Pehlwani |
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Grappling | India |
Pehlwani (Urdu پہلوانی; Hindi: पहलवानी; or kushti; Urdu کشتی; Hindi कुश्ती) is a Martial art and a style of Wrestling that is popular in India and Pakistan. It is a synthesis of the native traditions of Malla-yuddha and the Persian Varzesh-e...
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| x Sikaran | Strike | Philippines |
Sikaran is a form of Filipino martial arts whose history dates back to the early 1500s before the Spaniards came. It is the art of foot-fighting where the farmers use their legs to drive the partners outside the designated line (pitak) which was...
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Grappling | Masamichi Noro | Japan |
Kinomichi (氣之道) is a martial art in the tradition of budo, developed from the Japanese art aikido by Masamichi Noro and founded in Paris, France, in 1979. Masamichi Noro was one of the live-in students (uchideshi) of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of...
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| x Gatka |
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Weapon | Punjab |
Gatka (Punjabi: ਗਤਕਾ gatkā) is the name of an Indian martial art associated with the Sikhs of the Punjab region. It is a style of stick fighting, with wooden sticks intended to simulate swords. The Punjabi name gatka properly refers to the wooden...
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Weapon | Japan |
Jōdō (杖道:じょうどう), meaning "the way of the jō", or jōjutsu (杖術:じょうじゅつ) is a Japanese martial art using short staffs called jō. The art is similar to bōjutsu, and is strongly focused upon defense against the Japanese sword. The jō is a short staff,...
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| x Bojutsu | Weapon | Japan |
Bōjutsu (棒術), translated from Japanese as "staff technique", is the martial art of using a staff weapon called bō which simply means "staff". Staffs are perhaps one of the earliest weapons used by humankind. They have been in use for thousands of...
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| x Taido |
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Strike | Japan |
Taidō (躰道) is a Japanese martial art created in 1965 by Seiken Shukumine (1925 - 2001). The word taidō means "way of the body." Taidō has its roots in traditional Okinawan Karate. Feeling that the martial arts, particularly karate, were not adapting...
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| x Kuk Sool Won |
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Grappling | Kyuk suh | Korea |
Kuk Sool Won is a Korean martial arts system founded by In Hyuk Suh (the Kuk Sa Nim or Grandmaster) in 1958. The name Kuk Sool Won translates to "National Martial Art Association" (often shortened to 'Kuk Sool') and it is currently taught worldwide....
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| x Northern Praying Mantis | Strike | Wang Lang | China |
Northern Praying Mantis (Chinese: 螳螂拳; pinyin: tánglángquán; literally "praying mantis fist") is a style of Chinese martial arts, sometimes called Shandong Praying Mantis after its province of origin. It was created by Wang Lang (王朗) and was named...
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Weapon | Japan |
Kenjutsu (剣術), meaning "the art of the sword" , is a term for classical Japanese sword arts (or koryū), in particular those which predate the Meiji Restoration. It is sometimes used more generally to describe any martial art which makes use of the...
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Grappling | Remy Presas | Philippines |
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...
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| x WingTsun | Strike | Leung Ting | China |
Wing Tsun (alternatively 詠春, "chant spring") is a branch of the Chinese martial arts commonly known as Wing Chun, led by Leung Ting.
The particular phonetic spelling of 詠春 as Wing Tsun was picked by the branch founder Leung Ting to differentiate his...
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| x Fencing |
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Weapon | Italy |
Fencing is a family of sports and activities that feature armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or bludgeoning weapons that are directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned. Examples include swords, knives, pikes,...
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Grappling | Mikhail Ryabko | Russia |
Systema (Russian: Система, "The System") is a Russian martial art. It is designed to be highly adaptive and practical, training using drills and sparring instead of set kata. It focuses mainly on controlling the six body levers (elbows, neck, knees,...
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| x Pankration |
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Grappling | Theseus | Ancient Greece |
Pankration (pronounced /pæŋˈkrɑːtiɒn/ or /pæŋˈkreɪʃən/, from Ancient Greek: Παγκράτιον - Pagkration/ Pankration, IPA: [paŋˈkration]; Modern Greek: Παγκράτιο, IPA: [pa(ŋ)ˈɡratio]) is a martial arts sport introduced to the Greek Olympic Games in 648...
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| x Kajukenbo |
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Grappling | Clarence chang | Oahu |
Kajukenbo is a hybrid martial art that combines western boxing, judo, jujutsu, kenpo karate, shotokan karate and kung fu. It was founded in 1947 in Oahu, Hawaii, at the Palama Settlement. The original purpose of the art was to deal with local crime,...
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| Strike | Franz ordonez | ||||
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| x Marine Corps Martial Arts Program |
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United States of America |
The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP, pronounced /ˈmɪkmæp/) is a combat system developed by the United States Marine Corps to combine existing and new hand-to-hand and close quarters combat (CQC) techniques with morale and team-building...
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| x Haidong Gumdo | Korea |
Haedong Kumdo, also spelled Haidong Gumdo, is a name coined around 1982 and used for several Korean martial arts organizations that use swords. Spelling varies between certain organizations. Most notable are Haidong Gumdo by the original...
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| x Zui Quan | Strike | Li Bai | China |
Zui Quan (Traditional and Simplified Chinese: 醉拳; pinyin: Zuì Quán, literally Drunken Fist, also known as Drunken Boxing or Drunkard's Boxing) is a concept in traditional Chinese martial arts, as well as a classification of modern Wushu forms. Zui...
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| x Juttejutsu |
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Strike | Japan |
Juttejutsu (十手術) is the Japanese martial art of using the Japanese weapon jutte (also known as jitte). Juttejutsu was evolved mainly for the law enforcement officers of the Edo period to enable non-lethal disarmament and apprehension of criminals...
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| x Taekyon |
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Strike | Song Dok-Ki | Korea |
Taekkyeon is a traditional Korean martial art with a dance-like appearance in some aspects. Koguryo mural painting at the samsil tomb shows Taekkyeon was practiced as early as the Three Kingdoms Era and transmitted from Koguryo to Silla. The earlist...
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| x Shuai jiao |
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Grappling | China |
Shuai jiao (Chinese: 摔跤 or 摔角; pinyin: Shuāijiāo; Wade-Giles: Shuai-chiao) is a Chinese martial art which combines grappling and striking. It was originally only a style of sport wrestling, but later striking and blocking were added to it. It...
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| x Malla-yuddha | Grappling | Bhima | India |
Malla-yuddha (Devanagari: मल्लयुद्ध) is the traditional form of wrestling in South Asia, closely related to various Southeast Asian wrestling styles.
According to the techniques and methodology used, Indian wrestling is divided in four types:...
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Wu Jing | China |
The sport of wushu is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was created in the People's Republic of China after 1949, in an attempt to nationalize the practice of traditional Chinese martial...
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