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Martial Arts Facts - Encyclopedia
Martial arts cover a broad range of activities that involve fighting techniques, physical exercises, and methods of mental discipline, among other skills. Martial arts originated in the ancient cultures of Asia, and are used today around the world for self-defense, exercise , health, spiritual growth, law enforcement, and athletic competition.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/martial_arts.aspx
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Martial Arts: The History and Philosophy of Martial Arts
Martial arts originated in East Asia more than 2,000 years ago and have since grown to about 200 individual types practiced by about 100 million people worldwide.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Sports/Martial-Arts.pg_0.html
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Western Martial Arts History - Black Belt
The oldest record of boxing are pyramid hieroglyphs and mural paintings in Egypt that date back 4000 B.C.
http://www.blackbeltmag.com/category/western-martial-arts-history/
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Martial Arts History
Martial arts history contains many examples of how styles were developed technically and philosophically. The people of different regions developed their own methods of offense and defense.
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A Brief History of Martial Arts - Martial Arts Information - Sawyer's Martial Arts
Worldwide there is a great diversity of martial arts.
http://www.sawyersmartialarts.com/info/ma-history.html
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History of Martial Arts
Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. Though studied for various reasons, broadly speaking, martial arts share a single objective: to defeat a person physically or to defend oneself from physical threat.
http://edinformatics.com/health_fitness/martial_arts.htm
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Martial Arts History Museum - An Historical, Educational and Cultural Art Facility
Martial Arts History Museum - An Historical, Educational and Cultural Art Facility.
http://martialartsmuseum.com
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The History of Martial Arts
The world karate governing body.
http://wtfskf.org/the-history-of-martial-arts.php
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Martial Arts History - Black Belt
Many people consider Asia to be the center of the martial arts world, though it is not necessarily the birthplace of all the arts.
http://www.blackbeltmag.com/category/daily/martial-arts-history/?topicid=9327
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History of Martial Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the earliest evidence of martial arts goes back millennia, the true roots are difficult to reconstruct. Inherent patterns of human aggression which inspire practice of mock combat (in particular wrestling) and optimization of serious close combat as cultural universals are doubtlessly inherited from the pre-human stage, and were made into an "art" from the earliest emergence of that concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_martial_arts
