which martial arts has been banned for thousands of years what r there history!!!!?
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http://www.lycoming.edu/orgs/karate/handbook/history.htm\n\nHistory of Traditional Karate\n\n\n\nKarate-do, or 'the way of the empty hand' originated in Okinawa. Okinawa is a small island that lies between China and Japan. Its geographical location, made it a place where social and cultural intercourse between China and Japan took place. In 1609, the country was invaded by the Japanese, who established their political presence. The various leaders of Okinawa were taken back to Japan for internment. At the same time, Japanese military and police authorities took control of most of the major urbanized areas, including the Capitol of Naha. It was during this time the Japanese confiscated all arms owned by the Okinawan people.\n\n\nUnfortunately, the Japanese invaders did not take into account the ancestral heritage of the Okinawan people - that of their martial arts. Because of Okinawa's close commercial and social ties to China, it acquired the Chinese fighting art of Chuan-fa (kung-fu). Chuan-fa origins can be traced back more than 1,200 years. In time the Chinese fighting art eventually became known as to-de in Okinawa. The use of to-de allowed the Okinawan people to defend themselves quite successfully against the more numerous Japanese fighting forces.\n\n\nGradually, the Okinawan people grew resigned to the fact that they were fighting an up hill battle against a more modern and large Japanese army of occupation. So they accepted, somewhat reluctantly the Japanese occupation with distaste, but allegiance. In 1868, Gichin Funakoshi was born, son of a minor political figure in Okinawa. Young Funakoshi grew up learning the martial art skills of to-de from Master Azato. By the time he was in his late twenties, Funakoshi had not only mastered the art of to-de, but completed his education and become a teacher. Following a demonstration of to-de, a visiting school administrator was so impressed that he authorized Funakoshi to put the martial arts into the Okinawan school system. The once banned martial arts now at last was in the open.\n\n\nJapan's introduction to what is now known as karate had to wait until 1912. By chance, Admiral Dewa of the Imperial Navy, along with many of his sailors were housed at a school where Funakoshi taught. Funakoshi would put together impromptu karate demonstrations to keep the sailors entertained. It was through these demonstrations that karate became the talk of Tokyo. Nearly ten years later, the Emperor of Japan invited Funakoshi to give a demonstration at the Royal Palace. Following the demonstration, the Emperor was so impressed he invited Funakoshi to return to Japan and teach his art in various universities. By the time he returned to Japan he was approaching 60 years of age. His first club was known as Shotokan or 'house of shoto'. Funakoshi previously used the pen-name of Shoto when he wrote poetry. It literally means 'waving pines'. The word kan means house, so logically we can see how shotokan karate-do got its name. It is easy to understand why shotokan karate-do became one of the most popular Japanese martial arts. In 1930, the original name of Okinawan art of to-de was changed to read karate-do, or 'the way of the empty hand'.
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People still study Ninjitsu, although it's not quite the same as in ancient Japan. Don't let idiots like Hood_12 fool you. Traditionally, a student of Ninjitsu would study anatomy, espionage, chemistry, toxicology, meteorology, entomology, fighting skills both armed and unarmed etc etc. \n\nGenerally, a ninja would have been hired for spying, gathering information, scouting, assassination etc. Most of the traditional teachings/methods have been outdated with modern technology.\n\nA lot of the stories surrounding ninjas are merely folklore. The stories go back hundreds of years. People back then were far more superstitious than nowadays.\n\nFor those of you who seem to think that ninjas have something mystical or magical about them, have a look at these web pages. Read it from top to bottom, don't just look at the pictures like Hood_12.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjutsu
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I believe it has only been banned in the Olympics :)
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ancient India.  its very old, and yes it still exists.\n\nPS.  I want my cape back.
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How refreshing to see that some still hold the same belief I do about "traditional" martial arts!\nWould it be a no holds barred match, or include the increasing in numbers rules doled out in UFC matches that limit more "vicious" tactics? I notice those guys like to wear pads on their fists and roll around on the floor with one another...\nI don't hold any disdain against so-called "mixed martial artists", I mean, after all, most traditional systems are mixed in one regard or another, but I dislike the idea that they take bits and pieces of what would otherwise be "whole" systems to become more "well rounded". But I ask how they can take the best of any one system if they have not mastered it?\nTo them, I say they are jacks of all trades, masters of none.\nLittle old Buddha man wins!
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I got the same thing man, I'm gonna have to get my folks to disable that category.  It really pisses me off that they associate World of Warcraft with occult... for heaven sakes the game looks like a cartoon.  Occult/New Age is suposed to block sites protaining to Wicca, Satanism, Human Sacrifice type thing, basically cults and such.  Of course World of Warcraft doesnt fit these categories in the least.  I remember when I was younger it blocked www.cartoonnetwork.com for "Humor"... WTF.  Funny thing is if I wanted to I could watch all kinds of Porno and for the longest time a certain Commercial Hardcore Asian Porn site wasn't blocked for the longest time.  Its straight up BS.
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Whomever told you that was wrong. The Ancient Olympics didn't practive usually cruel sporting events with perhaps one exception called "Pankration"  That would compare to UFC today, so who's being cruel?\n\nHere's a list of Ancient Olympic sports with descriptions:
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It's not Buddhism because there are Buddhist warriors. Look it up. I would have to say the most peaceful religion is the one that no one practices.
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Forms are crucial to any true martial art. This is where your fighting skills are developed. Otherwise, how do you explain the fact that they have survived all these centuries? \nI'm not sure I followed everything you said here. \nSome people think that they know more than thoses who haved trained for decades & studied with other who trained for decades. These grasshoppers have much to learn.
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This is a Zen teaching story called "The Gift of Insults"\n\nThere once lived a great warrior. Though quite old, he still was able to defeat any challenger. His reputation extended far and wide throughout the land and many students gathered to study under him.\nOne day an infamous young warrior arrived at the village. He was determined to be the first man to defeat the great master. Along with his strength, he had an uncanny ability to spot and exploit any weakness in an opponent. He would wait for his opponent to make the first move, thus revealing a weakness, and then would strike with merciless force and lightning speed. No one had ever lasted with him in a match beyond the first move.\n\nMuch against the advice of his concerned students, the old master gladly accepted the young warrior's challenge. As the two squared off for battle, the young warrior began to hurl insults at the old master. He threw dirt and spit in his face. For hours he verbally assaulted him with every curse and insult known to mankind. But the old warrior merely stood there motionless and calm. Finally, the young warrior exhausted himself. Knowing he was defeated, he left feeling shamed.\n\nSomewhat disappointed that he did not fight the insolent youth, the students gathered around the old master and questioned him. "How could you endure such an indignity? How did you drive him away?" \n\n"If someone comes to give you a gift and you do not receive it," the master replied, "to whom does the gift belong?"
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Like we have said many times before... Ninjitsu is no longer real... It will die in the mountains of Japan with the last of their kind.... Its only taught by fakes now.
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The Samurai, per say, were gone by the late 1800's. Many historians tend to believe that the last 'historical' Samurai disbanded in 1877, after the Satsuma Rebellion. Although many solders considered themselves samurai, as do a few individuals today who descend from Samurai families, the Samurai as an official class ceased to exist.  Thus, the "martial arts" of post Meiji Restoration (1866 to 1869) would be what has become known as Gendai Budo, or modern martial arts. These arts would include Kendo, Iaido, Jukendo (bayonet fighting) and others.  It would be safe to assume that many of the ex-samurai still practiced the traditional arts (Koryu) such as Aikijujutsu; Sōjutsu (Spear Fighting); kenjutsu (Sword fighting); Iaijutsu (drawing the sword); jojutsu (Short Staff fighting); Taijutsu (Body fighting) and others. However, despite the practicing, Samurai were bnot seen walking the streets of Japan during the end of the 1800's as they had been previously.
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Wing Chun kung-fu: Like most of the stylized kung-fu systems out there they get caught up in the who's instead of the why's and how's. The fixed positions and the inability to expand out of their systems fighting position leaves it vunerable to take downs, angled attacks, multiple person situations, and takes too long to implement the ideas to practical use.\n\nTaekwondo: You're represented by the biggest morons out there WTF and ATA. These orginizations are out for your money, boosting their prestige, and brain washing you into believing that there is a purpose to what they are doing. All the while, WTF specifically, handing you this crock of shit on how long taekwondo has been in existance. Because of their predjudice outlook toward the karate/Japanese culture in which it originated from they've developed a sport based on a game played over 1000 years ago and make people think they're actually learning how to defend themselves. They refuse to look toward proper training for fighting effectively taking them out of the true realm of martial arts. Now there are some fairly solid TKD orginizations out there but they're not represented by the vast majority thus undermining any attempt at validating their system.\n\nKempo: Like saying car, there is no true identity for this system of martial arts. Are we Japanese, American or Chinese. Who give a rats ass. Most systems have tried their damndest (is that really a word?) to validate a fairly effective group of fighting techniques while others get bogged down in the muck of trying to lay claim to some wierd Chinese Shaolin authenticity. Kenpo/Kempo has been represented over many years as some of the hardest hitting, most ferocious fighters in existance. There was a reason they became popular but because of greeed they watered it down to a state where you'd be lucky to find an instructor that wouldn't get you killed in your first encounter on the street. Now a majority of kempo guys are fat, out of shape bastards who are more interested in getting your check book then getting in shape. They have gone the way of TKD but fortunately most schools are changing for the better and maybe in the next decade or so they can rise to the prestige they deserve.\n\nShaolin Kung-fu/Wu Shu: Doesn't exist people it's fucking myth, as a martial arts you are learning to be a fucking gymnast/ballet dancer. Fucking stage performers are all they are. If you like that shit fine but stop licking the balls of these so called Chi masters as if most their stuff wasn't parlor tricks and simple athletic acrobatic techniques. Simple and to the point.\n\nOther systems of Kung-fu: if you aren't training in modern ways then you're not training in Kung-fu. Systems were not to be mired down to tradition they were supposed to change with the time, passing on techniques that worked and adding new ones on to make their respective kwoons "bad ass". Unfortunately you've all seen too many Jet Li and Jackie Chan circle jerk movies and believe half that shit is real. It's the fucking movies people get over it.\n\nJudo: Fucking turning into a bunch of pansies I swear, they outlaw so many moves we're soon going to be left with nothing but a pussified sumo match where only pushing is allowed.\n\nJujitsu: The problem here is identity. Like so many arts Jujitsu wears many masks and covers many different areas of grappling. Some Jujitsu systems look like modern MMA events while others are so bogged down in theoretical shit that they have no comprehension on what works and what doesn't work. Bottom line is if you haven't done it against a fully resisting opponent you'll have no idea if it'lll really work. Most of these practitioners get tied down to tradition and never question for a second their "masters" teaching because they've seen him/her throw some cooperative bitch around. Find Jujitsu that works people.\n\nBrazillian Juj
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I don't know about SAFRA but there are a couple of commercial schools in Singapore. See the source list for web pages. If you want to try Historical Fencing then check out our web page at PHEMAS (non-commercial society). We study the 600 year old Longsword style of Fiore dei Liberi.
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martial arts is the study and application of combat.  there is a distinct difference between martial ARTS and martial WAYS.  martial ways refer to combat systems with practical applications studied in a non-dogmatic, direct transmission type of system where a teacher takes on a few students and passes on the knowledge and experience of both his own study and the study of his teachers.  martial ARTS refers to the use of combat and combat systems in either a demonstrative/non-application mode (think wu shu or, in one sense, pro wrestling) or in an attempt to achieve meditative awareness (all the combat systems that use "Do" in their names).\n\nthis distinction is important in the asian arts primarily because the distinction was codified after WWII.  the US occupation forbid the japanese from anything with military value.  to prevent the loss of centuries of tradition and history, the japanese reclassified their martial systems into religious/spiritual modes, which were allowed under the occupation.  korean arts followed this tradition (most especially with tae kwon do, which was basically created not as a martial art per se but as a way to teach moral values to the population).  the chinese are probably the least affected by this because so much of chinese martial arts is limited to very small groups.  wu shu is a series of standardized martial movements that have been synthesized from many different combat systems.  arts such as shaolin and tai chi have hundreds of variations based on the particular learnings of the teacher.  the most difficult part of chinese martial arts is tracing lineage holders properly.  since many chinese masters were illiterate and poor, research into their history is difficult at best.  it also holds all manner of traps for the student because any chinese "master" can claim to be the lineage holder of some obscure chinese art with no way to have their claim substantiated or repudiated.\n\n(as for the pro wrestling comment, I'm not denigrating those guys at all.  they may not be fighters in the classic sense of wrestlers but they are still highly capable athletes and most of them probably could kick ass in combat situations.)
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Stupid. Like back in the Gladiator days when they would fight to a bloody death. We've reverted back to prehistoric, barbaric times.
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Ok... this is long... I actually got a pretty bad grade during college for writing a paper about this and unfortunately using too many websites for information.  There is a lot of misinformation on the web (I no longer trust anything i read unless it's from an encyclopedia or reputable source online. Definitely not a martial arts website)   There also is a lot of misinformation in books written by authors such as "Si Fu Bob" and "how I will teach you the secrets of Shaolin Kung fu".  Basically, your history professor is correct. If you read textbooks written by college professors on Chan/Zen and Bodhidharma... they think his association with Bodhidharma is legend.  Some even dispute his existence at all.  If you read books on martial arts history, they'll say that his association with bodhidharma for sure is legend and that the Shaolin monks most likely harbored retired soldiers who knew self defense.  The concise encyclopedia brittanica will state that chinese martial arts harkens back to the 18th century B.C.  Go to google scholar (it has a lot of books written for the general public also with some books written by academics) or JSTOR (which has a better reference of articles written by academics) and look up "bodhidharma" and "legend."  All books written by academics will state that he is a legend and his association with martial arts is that... the general books written by regular folks for regular folks like "how to learn martial arts in 20 days" are hit and miss...  Hopefully, you didn't make the same mistake that I made and failed a midterm paper based on reading websites for info!\nOh, I found this answer in another area about kalaripayattu...\n\n"As to kalaripayattu....\nThere is no association historically between kalaripayattu and shaolin kung fu or any other martial arts. This only came about recently and has been pushed strongly by practitioners of kalaripayattu as an association (i guess to try and generate interest in the art). Unfortunately, the general pracitioners of kalaripayattu are unwilling to admit (although Professor Zarilli's book "When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art (Hardcover and almost all other books on kalaripayattu reference this)" that the earliest suggested birth of kalaripayattu is around 11th-13th century a.d. and that the earliest proof of kalaripayattu was from portuguese records in the 16th century a.d. No credible records of kalaripayattu exist before this.\n\nThe association between indian martial arts and chinese martial arts is between the legend of Bodhidharma (an Indian or Central asian monk, depending on the legend you use) who founded the Shaolin temple. The rumor began in the 1600's A.D. and was written by a Chinese Taoist monk who did not like the Shaolin monks.... \n\nThe first open association of Bodhidharma and the Shaolin martial arts is made in the 17th century A.d. and it states in the text that Bodhidharma created the exercises that developed into Shaolin quan in a cave in China after staring at a wall for nine years without moving. Between the founding of the Shaolin temple (600A.D.) and 1600A.D. no association has ever been made about Bodhidharma and Shaolin Kung Fu. \n\nFrom this legend in the 1600's A.D., kalaripayattu practitioners today  and other people have been trying to push that maybe Bodhidharma was a kalaripayattu practioner. If he was a kalaripayattu practitioner, then that must mean that kalaripayattu was created in the 600A.D. and is the progenitor of Shaolin Kung Fu and hence all martial arts! Of course, this disregards the other martial arts traditions in china that go back to before Shaolin kung fu by a few centuries.\n\nThere is physical and written evidence in China that martial arts as practiced by the Shaolin monks predate the 6th century A.D. and that most martial arts in most