Exotic Martial Arts

Martial Media, Culture and Other Arts Other Related Arts
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I’m real curious about other martial arts. More specifically exotic martial arts that not much is known about. I was wondering if you knew of any of these martial arts that might be used in African tribes, or from any other parts of the world.

Thanx
Andrew

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Well it seems hard to find people with intemate knowledge of IMA on this board =)

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There was a program on the A&E about MA about two years ago. In that program they speculated that MA may have originated in Africa because of drawings found at Beni Hason (sp). These drawings outlined a complete fighting system and predated any of the Chinese writings. I later saw an issue of Martial Arts Legions about black martial arts. It has photos of the drawings.

This might give you a starting point in your research. Good Luck.

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There are African Martial Arts in Africa. The stuff promoted by in the USA is just wishful thinking on the part of Afrocentrists. Not much online info but here are a few links

http://www.pulseplanet.com/Sep00/2224.html

http://www.earth2000.com/ho/wrest.html

http://www.capoeira-angola.org/

Also try perusing these sites for plenty of examples of Western European Martial Arts.

http://ejmas.com/jmanly/jmanlyframe.htm

http://www.alliancemartialarts.com

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4933/westernlinks.html

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/pak9/america.html

http://www.savateaustralia.com/index.htm