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Main Name	martial arts (t2282)
Alias	en close combat martial arts
Alias	en generic martial arts
Alias	en martial artist
Family Tree	combatCombat involves a violent conflict with the goal to establish dominance over an opponent. · martial artsVarious sports or skills, mainly of Japanese origin, that originated as forms of self-defense or attack, such as judo, karate, and kendo. · · aikidoAikido is a Japanese martial art with the goal of allowing practitioners to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury. · · archeryArchery is the art, practice, or skill of shooting arrows with a bow. A person who participates in archery is an archer. Archery has been used for hunting, but through most of human history its main use was for combat. With the invention of firearms, archery quickly became obsolete in war, but in the Far East it is to this day considered an important subject in martial arts, with archery dojos being ran by school archery clubs, and it reemerged as a recreational activity in the West as well. · · bartitsuBartitsu is an eclectic martial art and self-defence 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. · · boxingBoxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring. · · capoeiraCapoeira is an Afro-Brazilian mixed martial art (MMA) that combines elements of martial arts, music, and dance · · fencingFencing is a sport in which two competitors fight using `rapier-style` swords, called the foil, the épée, and the sabre; winning points are made through the contact with an opponent. · · gun fuGun fu, a portmanteau of gun and kung fu, is a style of sophisticated close-quarters gunplay popularised by Hong Kong action cinema. It often resembles a martial arts battle played out with firearms instead of traditional weapons. · · hokuto shinkenFirst described as an 1,800 years old Chinese assassination art formed during the Three Kingdoms era. The art`s power lies into channelling one`s energy in a single blow and striking into the 708 Keiraku Hikou ("Hidden Channeling Points") in the human body. · · iaidoIaido is a Japanese martial art that emphasizes being aware and capable of quickly drawing the sword and responding to a sudden attack. · · Jeet Kune DoJeet Kune Do is an eclectic and hybrid style fighting art heavily influenced by the philosophy of martial artist Bruce Lee, who founded the system in 1967. Unlike more traditional martial arts, Jeet Kune Do is not fixed or patterned, and is a philosophy with guiding thoughts. · · judoJudo, or juudou in Japanese, is a modern martial art, combat and Olympic sport created in Japan in 1882. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke. A judo practitioner is called a judoka. · · karateA Japanese martial art originating from Okinawa. · · kendoKendo is a popular sport from Japan. It consists of swordplay with one or two shinai, a two-handed bamboo sword which may also be held with one hand only, while wearing armour. · · kenpoKenpo is the name of several martial arts. The word kenpo is a Japanese translation of the Chinese word "quánfǎ. This term is often informally transliterated as "kempo". In Japanese martial arts, kenpo is used to designate Chinese martial arts (much as the term kung fu is used in English-speaking countries), some koryu jujutsu styles as well as several gendai budo such as Shorinji Kempo and Nippon Kempo. · · kickboxingKickboxing is a group of stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from Karate and Muay Thai. · · kung fuKung fu or Chinese martial arts are the several hundred fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China. · · mixed martial artsMixed martial arts is a full-contact combat sport that allows both striking and grappling, both standing and on the ground, using techniques from other combat sports and martial arts. · · Muay ThaiMuay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems. · · nanto seikenNanto Seiken specialises in destroying the enemy from outside through the use of hand-to-hand stabbing and slicing techniques, often using air pressure to do so without direct contact. · · ninjutsuNinjutsu, sometimes used interchangeably with the modern term ninpou, is the strategy and tactics of unconventional warfare and guerilla warfare as well as the art of espionage purportedly practised by the ninja; as such, it was more an art of tricks than a martial art. Ninjutsu was a separate discipline in some traditional Japanese schools which integrated study of more conventional martial arts. · · sumo wrestlingSumo wrestling is a competitive full-contact wrestling sport where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyou) or into touching the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet. · · taekwondoA Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea; it may be loosely translated as "the way of the hand and the foot." It combines combat techniques, self-defense, sport, exercise, and in some cases meditation and philosophy. · · wrestlingWrestling is a fight between two people without weapons, in which each person tries to beat their opponent. Wrestlers use clinching, holding, locking, and leverage. It resembles ritual fighting as it avoids things that will likely lead to serious injury. It is similar to military hand-to-hand combat or self-defence systems.
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Added by	hidden on 2009-02-08 13:42
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