DANCE TEK WARRIORS
“To become a spiritual warrior means to develop a larger vision, a special kind of courage, fearlessness and genuine heroism. “
MARTIAL ARTS
Old-fashioned or ancient arts in addition modern styles of
folk wrestling vs. contemporary fusion martial arts.
Local origin, particularly Eastern Martial Arts verse the
Western Martial Arts
Techniques: Armed vs. unarmed, within these groups the type
of weapon used are as follows swordsmanship, stick fighting etc... And by the
sort of combat; grappling verse striking; stand-up fighting verse. ground
fighting.
By application or intent: self-defense, combat sport,
choreography or demonstration of forms, physical fitness, meditation, etc.
Within Chinese tradition: "external" vs.
"internal" styles
By technical focus
Unarmed
Unarmed martial arts can be broadly grouped into focusing on
strikes, those focusing on grappling and those that cover both fields, often
described as hybrid martial arts.
Strikes
Punching: Boxing (Western), Wing Chun
Kicking: Capoeira, Kickboxing, Taekwondo, Savate
Others using strikes: Karate, Muay Thai, Sanshou
Grappling
Throwing: Jujutsu, Aikido, Hapkido, Judo, Sambo
Joint lock/Chokeholds/Submission holds: Judo, Jujutsu,
Aikido, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Hapkido, Eagle Claw
Pinning Techniques: Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Wrestling, Sambo
Another key delineation of unarmed martial arts is the use
of power and strength-based techniques (as found in boxing, kickboxing, karate,
taekwondo and so on) vs. techniques that almost exclusively use the opponent's
own energy/balance against them (as in T'ai chi ch'uan, aikido, hapkido and
aiki jiu jitsu and similar). Another way to view this division is to consider
the differences between arts where Power and Speed are the main keys to success
vs. arts that rely to a much greater extent on correct body-mechanics and the
balance of the practitioner's energy with that of the opponent.
In all such delineations, aspects of many arts, if not most,
can fall within both camps, regardless of which way the defining line is viewed
(striking vs. grappling or power vs. energy/balance). Most arts have features
on both sides of any such dividing line.
Weapon-based
Those traditional martial arts which train armed combat
often encompass a wide spectrum of melee weapons, including bladed weapons and
polearms. Such traditions include eskrima, silat, kalaripayat, kobudo, and
historical European martial arts, especially those of the German Renaissance.
Many Chinese martial arts also feature weapons as part of their curriculum.
Sometimes, training with one specific weapon will be
considered a style of martial arts in its own right, which is especially the
case in Japanese martial arts with disciplines such as kenjutsu and kendo
(sword), bojutsu (staff), and kyudo (archery). Similarly, modern Western
martial arts and sports include modern fencing, stick-fighting systems like canne
de combat or singlestick, and modern competitive archery.
Combat sport and
Self-Defence
Many martial arts, especially those from Asia, also teach
side disciplines which relate to therapeutic practices. This is mainly
customary in traditional Indian martial arts which may teach bone-setting, and
other aspects of traditional Indian medicine.
Martial arts can also be linked with religion and
spirituality. Numerous systems are reputed to have been founded, disseminated,
or practiced by monks or nuns.
For instance, Gatka is a weapon-based Indian martial art
created by the Sikhs of the Punjab district of India.
Japanese styles, when concerning non-physical qualities of
the combat, are often strongly influenced by Mahayana Buddhist philosophy.
Concepts like "empty mind" and "beginner's mind" are
recurrent. Aikido, for instance, can have a strong philosophical belief of the
flow of energy and peace fostering, as idealised by its founder Morihei
Ueshiba.
Traditional Korean martial arts place emphasis on the
development of the practitioner's spiritual and philosophical development. A
common theme in most Korean styles, such as taekkyeon and taekwondo, is the
value of "inner peace" in a practitioner, which is stressed to be
only achieved through individual meditation and training. As with most other
East Asian martial arts, the Koreans believe that the use of physical force is
only justified through defence.
Systema draws upon breathing and relaxation techniques, as
well as elements of Russian Orthodox thought, to foster self-conscience and
calmness, and to benefit the practitioner in different levels: the physical,
the psychological and the spiritual.
Some martial arts in various cultures can be performed in
dance-like settings for various reasons, such as for evoking ferocity in
preparation for battle or showing off skill in a more stylized manner. Many
such martial arts incorporate music, especially strong percussive rhythms.
Historical martial arts
The oldest work of art depicting scenes of battle, dating
back 3400 BC, was the Ancient Egyptian paintings showing some form of
struggle comparable to the stocks.
In Europe, the earliest sources of martial arts traditions
date to Ancient Greece. Boxing (pygme, pyx), wrestling (pale) and pankration
were represented in the Ancient Olympic Games. The Romans produced gladiatorial
combat as a public spectacle.
European swordsmanship was trained for duels until the
Napoleonic era, and developed into sport fencing during the 19th century.
Modern boxing originates with Jack Broughton's rules in the 18th century, and
reaches its present form with the Marquess of Queensberry Rules of 1867.
Europe's colonization of Asian countries also brought about a decline in local
martial arts, especially with the introduction of firearms. This can clearly be
seen in India after the full establishment of British Raj in the 19th
century.[10] Similar phenomena occurred in Southeast Asian colonies such as
Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Testing and competition
Testing or evaluation is important to martial art
practitioners of many disciplines who wish to determine their progression or
own level of skill in specific contexts. Students within individual martial art
systems often undergo periodic testing and grading by their own teacher in
order to advance to a higher level of recognized achievement, such as a different
belt color or title. The type of testing used varies from system to system but
may include forms or sparring.
Various forms and sparring are commonly used in martial art
exhibitions and tournaments. Some competitions pit practitioners of different
disciplines against each other using a common set of rules, these are referred
to as mixed martial arts competitions. Rules for sparring vary between art and
organization but can generally be divided into light-contact, medium-contact,
and full-contact variants, reflecting the amount of force that should be used
on an opponent.
Light medium contact
These types of sparring restrict the amount of force that
may be used to hit an opponent, in the case of light sparring this is usual to
'touch' contact, e.g. a punch should be 'pulled' as soon as or before contact
is made. In medium-contact (sometimes referred to as semi-contact) the punch
would not be 'pulled' but not hit with full force. As the amount of force used
is restricted, the aim of these types of sparring is not to knock out an
opponent; a point system is used in competitions.
A referee acts to monitor for fouls and to control the
match, while judges mark down scores, as in boxing. Particular targets may be
prohibited, certain techniques may be forbidden (such as headbutting or groin
hits), and fighters may be required to wear protective equipment on their head,
hands, chest, groin, shins or feet. Some grappling arts, such as aikido, use a
similar method of compliant training that is equivalent to light or medium
contact.
In some styles (such as fencing and some styles of Taekwondo
sparring), competitors score points based on the landing of a single technique
or strike as judged by the referee, whereupon the referee will briefly stop the
match, award a point, then restart the match. Alternatively, sparring may
continue with the point noted by the judges. Some critics of point sparring
feel that this method of training teaches habits that result in lower combat
effectiveness. Lighter-contact sparring may be used exclusively, for children
or in other situations when heavy contact would be inappropriate (such as
beginners), medium-contact sparring is often used as training for full contact
Full-contact
Full-contact sparring or competition, where strikes are not
pulled but thrown with full force as the name implies, has a number of tactical
differences from light and medium-contact sparring. It is considered by some to
be requisite in learning realistic unarmed combat.
In full-contact sparring, the aim of a competitive match is
either to knock out the opponent or to force the opponent to submit. Where
scoring takes place it may be a subsidiary measure, only used if no clear
winner has been established by other means; in some competitions, such as the
UFC 1, there was no scoring, though most now use some form of judging as a
backup. Due to these factors, full-contact matches tend to be more aggressive
in character, but rule sets may still mandate the use of protective equipment,
or limit the techniques allowed.
Nearly all mixed martial arts organizations such as UFC,
Pancrase, Shooto use a form of full-contact rules, as do professional boxing
organisations and K-1. Kyokushin karate requires advanced practitioners to engage
in bare-knuckled, full-contact sparring while wearing only a karate go and
groin protector but does not allow punches to the face, only kicks and knees.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and judo matches do not allow striking, but are
full-contact in the sense that full force is applied in the permitted grappling
and submission techniques.
Several martial arts, such as Judo, are Olympic sports.
Martial arts have crossed over into sports when forms of
sparring become competitive, becoming a sport in its own right that is
dissociated from the original combative origin, such as with western fencing.
The Summer Olympic Games includes judo, taekwondo, western archery, boxing,
javelin, wrestling and fencing as events, while Chinese wushu recently failed
in its bid to be included, but is still actively performed in tournaments
across the world. Practitioners in some arts such as kickboxing and Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu often train for sport matches, whereas those in other arts such as
aikido and Wing Chun generally spurn such competitions. Some schools believe
that competition breeds better and more efficient practitioners, and gives a
sense of good sportsmanship. Others believe that the rules under which
competition takes place have diminished the combat effectiveness of martial arts
or encourage a kind of practice which focuses on winning trophies rather than a
focus such as cultivating a particular moral character.
Some martial artists compete in non-sparring competitions
such as breaking or choreographed routines of techniques such as poomse, kata
and aka, or modern variations of the martial arts which include
dance-influenced competitions such as tricking. Martial traditions have been
influenced by governments to become more sport-like for political purposes; the
central impetus for the attempt by the People's Republic of China in
transforming Chinese martial arts into the committee-regulated sport of wushu
was suppressing what they saw as the potentially subversive aspects of martial
training, especially under the traditional system of family lineages.
HEALTH AND FITNESS BENEFITS
Martial arts training is intended to give several benefits to
trainees, such as their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
Through systematic practice in the martial arts a person's
physical fitness may be boosted (strength, stamina, flexibility, movement
coordination, etc. as the whole body is exercised and the entire muscular
system is activated. Beyond contributing to physical fitness, martial arts
training also has benefits for mental health, contributing to self-esteem,
self-control, emotional and spiritual well-being. For this reason, a number of
martial arts schools have focused purely on therapeutic aspects, de-emphasizing
the historical aspect of self-defence or combat completely
According to Bruce Lee, martial arts also have the nature of
an art, since there is emotional communication and complete emotional
expression
U.S. Army Combative instructor Matt Larsen demonstrates a
chokehold.
Some traditional martial concepts have seen new use within
modern military training. Perhaps the most recent example of this is point
shooting which relies on muscle memory to more effectively utilize a firearm in
a variety of awkward situations, much the way an iaidoka would master movements
with their sword.
Many martial arts are also seen and used in Law Enforcement
hand to hand training. For example, the Tokyo Riot Police's use of aikido.
MARTIAL ARTS INDUSTRY
Since the 1970s martial arts has become a significant
industry, a subset of the wider sport industry including cinema and sports
television.
Millions of people worldwide practice and teach some form
of martial art. Web Japan (sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs) claims there are 50 million karate practitioners worldwide.The
South Korean government in 2009 published an estimate that taekwondo is
practiced by 70 million people in 190 countries.
MARTIAL ARTS FRAUD
Asian martial arts experienced a surge of popularity in the
west during the 1970s, and the rising demand resulted in numerous low quality or
fraudulent schools. Fuelled by fictional depictions in martial arts movies,
this led to the ninja craze of the 1980s in the United States. Somewhat
outdated, but there was also numerous fraudulent ads for martial arts training
programs, inserted into comic books circa the 1960s and 1970s, which were read
primarily by adolescent boys.
The rank system introduced for judo in the 1880s proved
commercially viable, and coloured-belt systems were adopted in many martial
arts degree mills (also known as McDojos) as a means to generate additional
cash.
VOGUING
Vogue, or voguing, is a common stylised, modern house dance
that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1980s. It acquired mainstream exposure when it was featured in Madonna's song and music video
"Vogue" (1990) in addition when showcased in the 1990 documentary Paris
is Burning (which went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film
Festival). After the new millennium, Vogue returned to mainstream attention
when the dance group Vogue Evolution competed on the fourth season of America's
Best Dance Crew.
Inspired by Vogue magazine, voguing is characterized by
model-like poses integrated with angular, linear, and rigid arm, leg, and body
movements. This style of dance arose from Harlem ballrooms by African Americans
and Latino Americans in the early 1960s. It was originally called
"presentation" and later "performance". Over the years, the
dance evolved into the more intricate and illusory form that is now called
"vogue". Voguing is continually developed further as an established
dance form that is practiced in the gay ballroom scene and clubs in major
cities throughout the United States—mainly New York City.
Formal competitions occur in the form of balls held by
"houses"—family-like collectives of LGBT dancers and performers. Some
well-known houses include the House of Garcon, the House of Icon, the House of
Khanh, the House of Evisu, the House of Karan, the House of Mizrahi, the House
of Xtravaganza, the House of Ebony, the House of Revlon, the House of Prodigy,
the House of Escada, the House of Omni, the House of Aviance, the House of
Legacy, the House of Milan, the House of Infiniti, the House of Pend'avis, the
House of LaBeija, the House of McQueen, the House of Ninja, the House of Suarez
and the House of Andromeda, among others ("Legendary" in ballroom
terms refers to a house that has been "serving", that is, walking or
competing on the runway, for twenty years or more). The House of Ninja was
founded by Willi Ninja, who is considered the godfather of voguing. Members of a house are called "children". Sometimes children legally
change their last name to show their affiliation with the house to which they
belong.
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