Martial arts are now practiced worldwide. About 100 million people participate in martial arts as a means of self defense, physical fitness, mental tranquility, and competition. There are about 200 different martial arts, and in each case are specific schools called styles or systems. These styles number in the thousands.
Despite the array of martial arts and styles, most of them share common techniques, and so they can be organized in broad categories that facilitate understanding. The primary way of classifying martial arts are the basic physical technique they use: striking or fighting.
The striking technique, technically called the strike, using strokes with the hands, elbows, feet, knees and head. Such popular martial arts as karate, kung fu, and Tae Kwon Do fall into this category.
Fighting arts, on the other hand, employs mostly throwing, locking, and wrestling techniques. These arts seek to neutralize aggressive action by gaining control over an opponent without necessarily finding the person. The most popular fighting arts are Jujutsu, judo and aikido.
Judo (Japanese for "gentle way") is an art of self defense developed from Jujutsu in 1882 by Japanese educator Kino Igor. Like Jujutsu is Judo a method of turning an opponent's force to one's own advantage through fighting and throwing skills. Instead to directly oppose the enemy's strength, the goal is to yield to him or her that will unbalance the opponent. It makes it easier to implement a roll.
The martial arts can also be divided into those that prohibit weapons and those who require them. In judo, for example, competitors use only their bodies, but in many styles of kung fu, weapons constitutes an essential part of basic education. Common weapons used in martial arts include swords, staffs, and spears made of wood or metal. Firearms are never used.
Martial arts can also be divided by function and philosophy into traditional and nontraditional, according to the way they are taught. Traditional teachers emphasize self-improvement, while non-traditionalists emphasize self-defense. When instructing their students, traditionalists focus on three priorities in the following order: the spiritual development, discipline, and aesthetic form. Nontraditional teaching accents struggle, discipline and spiritual development. Both schools of thought offer advantages to students, encouraging the cultivation of such qualities as self-confidence, which then can be successfully carried forward and applied to everyday life.
Newer forms of martial arts, such Brazilian Jim Jets (BJJ) and May Thai is also getting huge popularity for his health and lifestyle benefits. BJJ promotes the principle that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend themselves against a bigger, stronger assailant using leverage and proper technique, especially by using joint-locks and shock team to defeat the other person. Jim Jets can be trained for sport fighting tournaments (gig and no-gig) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition or self defense.
Martial sports such as kickboxing are also very popular. Kickboxing is the largest martial arts spectator sport because of his extensive international television coverage. The sport was first developed in
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