The word martial, owes its origin to God Roman warrior culture that was "Mars", hence today, martial means everything related to military discipline, military or warrior. On the other hand, the word art refers to the possibility of man to express in beautiful form an emotion or feeling, in this way, we can say that "martial arts" is the generic name for man-made systems, with To reflect and teach the best techniques of military discipline and self-defense that has developed.
The martial arts consist of codified practices that aim to bring or defend using various techniques that put an opponent or more at a disadvantage. There are various styles and schools of martial arts that preclude the use of any weapon (white or fire). What sets martial arts violent aggressiveness mere physical (street fights) is the organization of its techniques in a coherent and effective coding methods. Currently practicing martial arts for various reasons including sport, health, personal protection, personal development, mental discipline, forging the character and confidence, in addition, since the strict meaning is " military arts "by extension applies to all types of form of grappling and military arts history, for this partnership to fight with weapons, including knowledge of systems that have traditionally been considered different sports (eg boxing, fencing , archery and wrestling). In simple words, the martial arts are fighting styles with antique weapons (traditional) or not, which, like all the arts are also an expression of the human being and are not necessarily designed in a systematic or scientific.
Thus, the main eastern countries developed their system of self defense according to their cultural traditions religious and physical characteristics and ethnic. Japan Modern Karate and Aikido (the traditional jujutsu), China with the kung-fu and Taekwondo Korea.
division can be a great general for classification in hard and soft arts, but elresultado or effectiveness of both is the same, some require training to harden the body (Karate) and other more flexible and softens it. May also be cases in which both generate training, curing (kendo) and flexibility (jujutsu) which combined gave rise to Aikido.
The origin of martial arts is very remote, it is believed that already practiced 2.000 years before the birth of Christ, according to legend, spread throughout the east by the teachings of Buddhist monks, who devised a system of self defense to protect themselves during their journeys of marauders and wild animals.
is attributed especially to the Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma, or Daruma Taishi, the first systematic martial arts in the East, the Indian monk, made in 520 AD a trip to Hunan province in China where taught at the Shao Lin Temple Zen Buddhism, as well as exercises of physical discipline, mental and struggle to fight this system was called Kwon Bop, which was later spread Buddhist monks, which is the possible origin of the systematization of the martial arts began to be from the nineteenth century emerges modern concept of martial arts.
The term "martial arts" is derived from Chinese characters wǔ shù wǔ and yì. Chinese Dictionary Chinese-English Diction Inglés Herbert A. Giles, 1882, translated wǔ yì as "military arts." Do not use the term wǔ shù until 1931 in the Chinese-Inglés Dictionary Mathews. The term also appears in 1920 in the Japanese-Inglés Takenobu Dictionary of the Japanese translation of the bu-gei or bu-jutsu as "the office or performance of military affairs."
The origin of the modern concept of martial arts is related to the emergence of the modern age in the Far East. This phenomenon resulted in the transformation of feudal social structures, the use of firearms that were wasting effect on traditional forms of struggle and the demise of the principles which govern the world. The traditional Asian martial arts practiced in closed circles and were the subject of an elite related the military and the nobility and its contents went far beyond what was the training of the troops. When traditional military arts lost their crucial weight in the realm of society and the country's defense, recovered as an option for the development of the nation in order to improve physically and spiritually in the population. The cultivation of traditional martial arts constituted a form of personal development in line with the old beliefs.
oriental martial arts combine a code of ethics should be rooted in the Confucian Chinese, Japanese Shinto and Buddhist spirituality zen impregnated Taoism and are strictly Taoist addition, some martial arts such as tai chi chuan, is practiced to improve the physical and mental state.
On the other hand the concept of action in the Far East is related to the economy of movement and freedom of choice which is the reaction to the advantages of the initiative. Thus in the martial arts concept takes precedence defense or personal protection.
Another concept of oriental martial arts with particular relevance in its history is the doctrine that can be overcome by force softness.
These components have been one of the key attractions of martial arts seen as something related to the military arts but also exceed them.
From this situation arose in Japan and Korea Do (Way) (Judo, Karate, Kenpo , Aikido, Budo , Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu (which is a union nine ryuha) Taekwondo, Hapkido , Tang Soo Do , Sipalkido ) and in China Kuoshu and later the wushu. The success of the martial arts have emerged as a reinterpretation of historical military arts, led to different cultures were recovered in the traditional control systems. So in Japan are different ancient traditions or schools (or rather ryu Koryu ha) in relation to the arts that emerged after the Meiji Restoration ( gendai ) and China's traditional martial arts (kuo shu) of modern wushu.
Some martial arts including martial arts originated in China, Japan and Korea go beyond mechanical applications include knowledge trauma, psycho-physical system regulation ( chi kung (qigong)), treatment (acupuncture, acupressure , herbal) and other areas related to traditional Chinese medicine. This is a natural extension of the martial art because, at an advanced level, the techniques take advantage of a detailed working knowledge of the opponent's energy in order to increase the efficiency of them.
addition, various martial arts pay attention to the method of construction of ancient weapons from the forging of swords to the assembly of catapults and siege towers, the reproduction of armor and clothing and custom research and traditional knowledge.
Simply put, the martial arts are fighting styles, martial arts are an expression of the human being and like all arts are not necessarily designed systematically. There are many schools and styles of martial arts, but all share one goal: the defense. Some martial arts, Tai Chi Chuan as giving special attention to improving health. Etymologically, it can be said that martial arts are the arts of war. If the main goal in competition is to score points in favor of someone, then we are facing a martial art but a sport. This is very important when assessing the effectiveness of a system in a real situation.
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