Someone was asking about the origin of martial arts, and we have a topic “Indian Martial Arts” which has links to some videos of what looks like a proto-martial art from India (and as we know, the Indian martial arts were possibly brought to the Shaolin Temple by Bodhidarma).
Thanks for the links, let me take the opportunity to state categorically that MARTIAL ARTS DO NOT HAVE A SINGLE ORIGIN except the tendancy of homonids to fight.
makes you wonder…the egyptians definately had an asortment of weapons.
“The infantry of the New Kingdom carried spears, battle axes, sickleswords and daggers. The sicklesword (MdC transliteration: xpS - khepesh or khopesh) came to Egypt from Syria, where Thutmose III used it first. There are many depictions of the gods handing the pharaoh this weapon of victory [2]. It quickly became part of the infantryman’s basic equipment.”
so with your infantry trained and armed with a small assortment of arms, it would be pretty logical to include standard grappling into the training.
do primates do chinna and head locks or do they just bite and rip out eyeballs and limbs when they are ****ed…any video of the king gorrilla arresting a lesser fellow?.
[QUOTE=diego;1010003]do primates do chinna and head locks or do they just bite and rip out eyeballs and limbs when they are ****ed…any video of the king gorrilla arresting a lesser fellow?.[/QUOTE]
primates? what do apes have to do with egyptian martial arts?
A lot of the people in the Egyptian countryside are TRUE EGYPTIAN descendants. They have been displaced in their own homeland.
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That whole region has been flipped more times than a short stack at denny’s
It is very difficult to ascertain if the people that live there now are descendants of the people who lived there over the millenia. In some cases yes, in others, no way.
The pyramids were incredibly ancient when Ramses II was Pharaoh and in the time of Akhenaten they were also ancient. By the time of the last Pharaoh (Cleopatra who wasn’t even an egyptian) the old dynasties were almost forgotten.
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It is very difficult to ascertain if the people that live there now are descendants of the people who lived there over the millenia. In some cases yes, in others, no way.
The pyramids were incredibly ancient when Ramses II was Pharaoh and in the time of Akhenaten they were also ancient. By the time of the last Pharaoh (Cleopatra who wasn’t even an egyptian) the old dynasties were almost forgotten.[/QUOTE]
Actually it is true. The people of the countryside are closer to the roots of pre-Islamic Egypt. The more urban the city location, the more one see the varied post Islamic phenotypes and sociocultural mores. The more recent groups are Albanian and Turkish (1750’s-1900) in the Egyptian landscape. In Pharoanic times, Greeks and Romans were representative of the foreign influences of the specific era!
Bloodlines may disappear but the language and religion of AE live on in the Copts. Christianity in Egypt took hold because all that was required was changing the names of the gods and some slight modifications of the story. But even the arab muslims cling to some of the traditions. Here is some info on combat sports in Egypt. Looks like there was an extensive body of knowledge around wrestling. The stick-fighting art is still practiced today though it is disguised as a dance most of the time.
