What are the different kinds of martial arts. its history and style.?

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What are the different kinds of martial arts. its history and style.?

Answer 1

Honestly no way without writing a book here to do this and simply no one is that well versed in the history of hundreds of Martial Arts...

Here is a great list, each link has specific information on style, history, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mar...

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Yes there are many of us who would be happy to answer the question but it is just to broad to cover.

Consider  this:

* In China there are at least 300 to 400 know styles and those are just the know ones.

* In Korea there are at least 75 different styles of Tae-Kwon-Do. There may be other and then there are other Korean arts too.

* In Okinawa there are dozens of different martial arts. Many have different versions of the same art. One such division is Shorin-Ryu which has three main versions (Kobayashi, Shobayashi, Matsubayashi)

* In Japan there are hundreds or martial arts

In addition there are many other countries that have more than one martial art.   I could go on and on. There are just to many to mention. I've been involved in the martial arts full time for over 41 years. I spend a lot of time researching the history and training methods of various arts. Even so I have only scratched the surface.  As I research I also know for a sure that there is much written about the martial arts that is incorrect. Wish I could be of more help. If you have more specific questions feel free to email me and I'll help if I can.

Best of Luck!

Answer 3

In Japan, you have the unarmed arts of:

Karate-

Developed in Okinawa.  It means "Empty Hand".  It utilyzes both punchs and kicks.  Condioning and the famous 'Kiai" are aspects of Karate.  It was the sole art not banned In Japan following the U.S. occupation.

Jujitsu-

Developed in Mainland Japan.  It is often mistakenly refered to only as a grappling art, confusing it with it's descendant, Judo.  Jujitsu, at least prior to 1882, was an art that used many holds, pressure points, or "Atemi".  In it's truest form, it can be very dangerous, and for good reason.  It was essentially the unarmed art of the Samurai.  The simmilarities are striking.  It, along with Kenjutsu and Kyujitsu, were the three main arts the samurai practiced to prepare him for battle.

Judo-

The descendant of Jujitsu.  It is primarily a sport art, but still has enormous self-defense potential.

Kenjutsu-

Kenjutsu means "Sword Tehcniques", and incidentelly, is what I teach.  There were hundreds of styles of Kenjutsu, or Ryu, that developed over the period of Samurai dominace.  Though few still survive, among which are Yagyu Shinkage Ryu and Jigen Ryu, they remain a national treasure of Japan.  Kenjutsu schools generally agreed on 8 basic techniques, or Happo Giri Waza, and 5 basic stances,or Kamae.  Frome these each school sought to develop their own techniques and principals of swordsmanship.  When the Meiji government outlawed the Samurai Class and the wearing of Swords, Kenjutsu fell into decline.  However, Kendo, it's descendant, became very popular.

Kendo-

The "Way of the Sword".  It is a pacificial art based on Kenjutsu.  Like Judo, it is a sport art.  It uses the Shinai, or bamboo sword in practice, where as Kenjutsu dojos often use the Bokken, or solid wood sword.  Since sparring is rare in Kenjutsu, they use Bokken, to bettter simulate the feel of a real sword, while Kendo uses the Shinai, for saftey reasons due to a large amount of sparring.

I am kind of in a hurry now, but If you want, I can e-mail you more later.

Answer 4

I am sorry aileen, but to even begin to cover it would probably use up all the space that Yahoo has available.

Just a for Instance:

Karate

There are three main branches, the original Okinawin, the japanes styles and the hybred American styles. Each of these have numerous different style under them. this is one of only many martial arts native to Japan and Okinawa.

Kung Fu- Chinese origin with literly hundreds of different styles and substyles.

Best bet is to do a google search and spend some time finding this stuff out for yourself.

Answer 5

http://www.hoplology.com/

Hoplology is the study of the history of all the martial arts.

Some martial arts historians claim that the Asian martial arts originated in ancient Greece (Pankration) then spread to India and Persia and all over the far east.

Other martial arts historians suggest that the martial arts were a 'coeval' discovery: that each country developed a martial art independent of other countries, and then later on in human history the martial arts spread and were influenced by other styles and cultures.

The study of Hoplology tackles and discusses the question of martial arts origins on a routine basis.

Answer 6

there are so many derfivitives of martial arts, but most of them started in china and Japan. examples are

Tae-Kwon-Do ( from Korea)

Karate

Kung Fu

Jujitsu

Hapkido

there are a bunch others, but i just can't spell them