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No.. actually...
Where did martial arts originate from?
Legend has it that the Zen Buddha brought the combat styles of the Indian Warriors across the Himalyan mountians into China. He then started the forms teaching them to the Buddhist monks at the Shaolin Temples.
At least that's the stock answer everyone gives...
More realistically, martial arts have been around in various form for as long as people have fought. Wrestling quite probably predates any kind of striking or kicking techniques and dates verifiably to the beginnings of recorded history. The world's earliest civilizations all had their own methods of combat (martial arts) - the Sumerians, Mongols, Greeks, etc. The most successful early cultures kept standing armies, and many of these had rigorously codified methods of traiing in fighting technique.
Buddhists did not invent the concept of punches and kicks either. As mentioned above, wrestling was probably the first form of combat (and it may have even predated agriculture as a cultural artifact). As fighters grew more sophisticated, they began to fight from greater and greater distances. First with punches, then kicks. Eventually, rocks and clubs were used as weapons, then knives and swords. The developments of spears and arrows was a major breakthrough - in the modern world we have guns and missiles.
Each culture creates its own answers to the questions of solving conflicts. In Japan, that answer included the samurai and various form of ju jutsu (which later evolved into judo and brazilian jiu jutsu). In Okinawa, fighting techniques were imported This in turn evolved into what we now know as karate. During Japan's occupation of Korea, many Korean soldiers learned karate, and this was mixed with indigenous fighting styles to form tae kwon do. Even the early Shaolin Buddhist monks may have adapted much of their fighting system from the movements of Yoga.
If we go far enough down the line, all arts have their roots in the cultures from which they spring. But cultures aren't born in a vacuum, so no martial art can claim to be a pure national creation. Combat is as old as the world; Martial arts originate from Man's need to control other men.Comment
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Indian Martial Arts:
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Iam a Marine all this **** about martial arts does not work in a real fight thats bull**** it works i have used it aginst other punks in the streets and aginst other fellow Marines hell we use a lot of skills that Bruce Lee created you would be surprise , there is no way that Pac could beat Bruce Lee not in boxing Bruce Lee knows how to box and in a streetfight Bruce Lee will make Pac his bicth
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