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ricky-cookParticipantwhy do chines do many diffrent types of karatiUser Detail :
Name : ricky-cook, City : central square, State : NY Country : United States, March 19, 2009 at 12:00 am #21511
JasonSMemberMost of the martial arts originating in Asia (not just China, of course, but Japan, Korea, and many other countries as well) are one of two categories. First, a lot of them are simply different types of armed fighting than are native to Western and Middle-Eastern societies. Just like Western usage of the sword, spear, etc., except they seem exotic because they use somewhat different styles or weapons. A lot of the unarmed fighting schools, or the ones that use really unusual weapons like the tonfa or the kama, originated in times when the possession and use of "real weapons" was reserved for certain classes of people as a means of maintaining power over the larger populace. Even if these styles use a weapon, it most likely resembles, or used to be used as, something that you couldUser Detail :
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