Fighting style of India?

Question

I was wondering, China has their fighting styles like Karate, Thailand has stuff and pretty much everyone. I've never heard about the Hindus and stuff fought. I mean I know they used swords, daggers, sticks and stuff, but is there any fighting style like Karate that they use/used?

Answer 1

Muki boxing.

Answer 2

Chinese martial arts arn't usually refered to as "Karate" but Kung Fu or Wushu.

Kung Fu can be translated as Great Skill, and has a long standing in not only China, but also India.

You see India was the birth place of Kung Fu.

Here is a short story of how the art migrated.

[edit] Early history

Main article: Asian martial arts (origins)

The foundation of the Asian martial arts is likely a blend of early Chinese and Indian arts. Extensive trade occurred between these nations beginning around 600 BC, with diplomats, merchants, and monks traveling the Silk Road. During the Warring States period of Chinese history (480-221 BC) extensive development in martial philosophy and strategy emerged, as described by Sun Tzu in The Art of War (c. 350 BC).

An early legend in martial arts tells the tale of the Indian monk Bodhidharma (also called Daruma), believed to have lived around 550 A.D. The martial virtues of discipline, humility, restraint and respect are attributed to this philosophy.[3] Contrary to popular belief, Bodhidharma did not found the Shaolin temple, which was founded centuries earlier. Nor did he create Shaolin Kung Fu, which again, was created centuries before his arrival. However, Bodhidharma is believed to have introduced breathing exercises and arts such as Yoga to early monks of the temple.

The teaching of martial arts in Asia has historically followed the cultural traditions of teacher-disciple apprenticeship. Students are trained in a strictly hierarchical system by a master instructor: Sifu in Cantonese or Shifu in Mandarin; Guru in Sanskrit, Hindi, Telugu and Malay; Sensei in Japanese; Sabeom-nim in Korean; Kalari Gurukkal or Kalari Asaan in Malayalam; Asaan in Tamil; Achan in Thai; Guro in Tagalog and Saya in Myanmar. (from Wikipedia)

India has other arts that arn't easily associated with Kung Fu as Silat (a stick and knife fighting art that too migrated). And also a few others I don't know about I'm sure.

Answer 3

lol....all martial arts actually originated in india!

Answer 4

Gatka

Kalarippayattu

Malla-yuddha

Pehlwani

Silambam

Vajra Mushti

Answer 5

Both among the kingdoms of the south, and the kingdoms of the north, there have been traditions of martial arts, however usually restricted to armed combat.  Among the Sikhs I know there is a method of unarmed combat which may the true origin of Muay Thai, as Muay Thai is said to have originated from a member of India's Shatriya caste having taught it to them.

Ultimately though, all Bodhidarma taught the monks, was staff fighting, and a few rudimentary punches and kicks, the rest the Chinese developed on their own.  Also, the Dao (straight sword), that is the art of the Chinese straight sword is indigenous to China itself, it did not come from India.  The Dao was the favored weapon, because it was designed to sever the spinal nerve in the area just below the sternum.

What India is most known for, because of the "Great Gama," is wrestling.  The history of wrestling in the west, is varied.  Originally, catch wrestling came from a style called Lancanshire wrestling, which started in Britain.  Lancanshire wrestling in turn was a style of grappling that went back to the ancient Celts, the original inhabitants of Britain.  In fact, geographically, Lancanshire is not that far from Wales, so likely they learned the style from the Welsh who incidentally have a style of wrestling very similar to catch operating under the same rules.

British wrestling of course made its way to the U.S., and it remained unchanged until it was challenged by Judo, which it fought to a draw, and later it was challenged by Indian wrestling, which Gama used to mop the floor with American "hookers" as wrestlers were called in the late 19th century.  Having their interest picked, Gama instructed a few American grapplers thus, "old school" early 20th century American catch, was a synthesis of Judo, Indian wrestling, and Lancanshire wrestling, as it borrowed the simplest techniques from these systems, its part of the reason the style works so well.

Old school catch is easily just as sophisticated and well thought out as BJJ and "submission wrestling" which in fact is new, watered down catch but with Jiu Jitsu submissions.  India's wrestlers, are second to no one except China's Shuia Jiao experts, who took their grappling style further because it was sorely tested against Kung Fu experts whereas in India, it was wrestlers going up against other wrestlers.

Indian wrestling, is actually not as effective or efficient as old school American catch, as it is restricted only to whatever local customs or what have you from which it drew its techniques.  Despite the defeats inflicted against Japanese Judoka, whose conditioning was p**s poor, American catch wrestlers were still nevertheless impressed by the grappling arts efficiency, and Judoka were likewise impressed by the muscularity of American catch artists.

Those exercises you see in Judo?  That is to make the muscles stronger and all that?  It all comes from late 19th century American catch wrestlers, and some of the conditioning you do in Judo comes from none other than Farmer Burns.  If there are moves in catch similar to Judo, it is because it learned those moves from Judo, and if there is strength conditioning in Judo similar to what your coach put you through in wrestling if you took it, its because Judo took its strenth conditioning from catch, and a few techniques it did not have before.

For example, until Judoka encountered catch wrestlers, the double leg takedown, or whatever its called in Judo, did not exist prior to the fact.  You look at traditional Jiu Jitsu well..... where is the double leg?  It doesn't exist.  That move was added AFTER Judo encountered catch, and they modified it to use more momentum, instead of picking up your opponent outright as in catch.

Regarding India, their style of grappling, while ineficient compared to old school catch, does have some brutal strength training methods.  One of them, involves wearing a concrete collar around your neck.  Their logic behind this, is that when you wrestle, people are going to have their arms around your neck, so, if you can run, jump, do pushups, etc, while wearing a concrete collar, you become accustomed to the idea of having something weighing down your neck.  Part of the reason it was nearly impossible to choke the great Gama, and incidentally choking was allowed in late 19th century professional catch contests, was becuase of those exercises.  The Great Gama was reputed to have trained with a concrete collar around his neck, legend has it, that weighed 100 lbs.  Good luck applying a choke hold on that guy.....

India is most known for its wrestlers, and the brutal conditioning methods they used, which were adopted by wrestling legend Carl Gotch, who wrestled back when professional wrestling contests were legitimate, pro wrestling became a spectable sometime in the 1960's, prior to that, the contests were legitimate and not shows.

For his techniques, Gotch uses old school catch, for conditioning he uses Indian methods, everything from the iron mace which you swing around your head to learn to control weight, to the concrete collar although for safety reasons he doesn't use concrete I believe he uses something else assuming the man is still alive.  The Sikhs of India, have a martial art that blends Indian wrestling, with whatever style originated Muay Thai.

hope that answer helped some.

Answer 6

Not all martial arts originated in India.

Answer 7

Brad Pitt is right. All martial arts originated from Inda. Then they went to china.