Although today martial arts is something that is thought about by many people to be sport, marital arts began with the war like nature of humans and the need to defend yourself.
In contemporary Western Civilization, we have become, for the most part, accustomed to war being a serious but far away event. Although personal violence comes into our life from time to time, it is mostly on the television news. It has not always been this way. people have been forced to defend themselves, their homes, and their families from deadly personal strike since the time we all lived in caves and dressed in animal furs. The history of martial arts begins there. It begins when the man had to be able to fight to defend himself or lose his life to a stronger and great fighter.
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The story of martial arts begins with the improvement of a warrior tradition in human development. Methods of self defense were developed using weapons when they were ready and bare hands and feet when they were not. Once these skills were learned, they were passed on from generation to generation. The clans that learned them well and perfected them the fastest were the ones that survived.
Many of these early forms of martial arts were transformed as weapons began to improve. Wooden clubs were supplanted with swords, and slings were supplanted with crossbows. The techniques of martial arts became the techniques of warfare. One of the earliest events in the improvement of martial arts as a spiritual convention was the writings of a man named Bodhidarma who lived colse to 550 A.D. He was credited with associating the unarmed martial arts of the time with the meditative practices of Zen Buddhism. He is also said to have influenced the Shaolin priests of China. The Shaolins were later introduced to favorite culture through the television show, Kung Fu.
Over the years, many of the Asian martial arts disciplines were formalized through a ideas of instructor and learner. The instructor was the experienced scholar who passed on the knowledge of the arts to his students. Some of the forms became extremely stylized with tests being administered to pass to a higher rank, but others remained rooted in the teacher/student method. Contact was the prominent thing and training.
In recent times, martial arts have entered favorite culture via the medium of movies and television. Many events such as "full Contact karate" events and "mixed martial arts" (Mma) competitions have supplanted boxing as favorite television and arena events. Although some martial arts purists have decried the competitions as straying away from the meditative and self discipline aspects of the traditions, they continue to attract much interest and have helped spread knowledge of martial arts to a wider audience.
The Martial Arts - Where Did They Come From?
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