Muay Thai is a hard martial art from Thailand. In ancient time, Siamese soldiers that are an unarmed use Muay Thai. Actually, Muay Thai is for entertainments such as local festival, celebration at temple, and respect Thai’s king. Muay Thai’s techniques are emphasizing in elbow and knee. Sometimes fighter uses his or her body movements like rotating with their kick, punch, elbow, or block. These styles are more likely of kickboxing.
Ju-jitsu is unarmed and armed techniques from Japan. Ju-jitsu is also one of style that originated from the samurai. The key forms are practiced for hand-to-hand combat. Traditional ju-jitsu combined with some weapons, it shows a painful position. The techniques are locking arm, joint locks, throws, kicks, and strikes. However, Ju-jitsu more focuses in taking opponent down to the floor.
Brazilian martial arts are Capoeira and Brazilian Ju-jitsu. Capoeira is martial dance. Capoeira consists of music, dance, and athletic movements. The techniques are kicks, head butts, elbow strikes, sweeps. This martial art developed by African slaves in Brazil to protect themselves. The oldest version is “Capoeira Angola”. Brazilian Ju-jitsu is from Japan. It was from Mitsuyo Maeda that brought the martial art from Japan to Brazil and he taught his own techniques. The Gracie family is the pioneer of Ju-jitsu in Brazil. Their martial art was throughout the 20th century.
Wrestling is grappling techniques. Clinch, throws, takedowns, joint locks, pins, and other grappling holds are the kinds of wrestling’s techniques. In ancient time, wrestling had been famous in many countries. The countries were China, Pharaonic Egypt, Greece, and Roman. Now, in modern era wrestling becomes famous in Athens, Olympic event, every Summer Olympic with Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling. The Summer Olympic is played by women. Wrestling etymology had three etymologies, such as the Mahabharata, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Greek. Wrestling has international disciplines or we called non-folk style and folk style disciplines. Non-folk style disciplines are Greco-Roman, freestyle, submission, beach, and sambo. Folk style disciplines are a traditional form of wrestling unique and styles from Europe, England, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Siberia, Italy, Iran, India, Indonesia, Switzerland, China, Korea, and Turkish oil wrestling. Each country has different name of wrestling and techniques of wrestling.
Sumo is from Japan. It is a competitive contact sport and has many ritual elements. The Sumo wrestlers use salt purification to sign that they are already to fight. Some shrines have ritual dance for Sumo because sumo is associated with Shinto ritual. The wrestling ring has diameter 4, 55 meters and the area is 16, 26 square meters. At the center of the ring, there are two white lines. The Japan Sumo Association organizes Professional Sumo. Sumo wrestling has a strict hierarchy based on sporting merit.Martial arts have unique form in each specification. Martial arts also used for ritual religion and entertainment. We have many advantages if we learn and practice a martial art. The advantages are efficient use of energy, utilizing your opponent’s momentum, system of self-defense, training effectively, improved our performance and safety. So, learn something and improved your ability.
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Martial Art. Wikipedia. Retrieved May 20, 2010. From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts
Muay Thai. Wikipedia. Retrieved May 20, 2010. From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muay_thai
Jujutsu. Wikipedia. Retrieved May 20, 2010. From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu
Brazilian Martial Art. Complete Martial Art. Retrieved May 20, 2010. From : http://www.completemartialarts.com/information/styles/brazil/brazilart.htm
Wrestling. Wikipedia. Retrieved May 20, 2010. From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling
Sumo. Wikipedia. Retrieved May 20, 2010. From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo
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