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I have taken only one martial art. Arnis/Escrima

Very few in Philippines speak Spanish. It's a dying language in Philippines because it has been replaced by English.

Philippines has hundreds of different languages such as Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Bicol, Visayan, and dialects but you forget that Philippines had used to been a Spanish colony for 300 centuries. So many (two-thirds) of the words in our Philippine languages were borrowed straight from Spanish language. The name Eskrima is the Filipino spelling which comes from the Spanish word esgrima, "fencing". Arnis is derived from the phrase arnés de mano, Spanish for "harness of the hand".

Of course. Arnis is more than a stickfighting art. It is also a diverse weapons art. It may be a stickfighting art and an arnisador always learns to fight with sticks at the beginning. However, in Arnis you can also fight with bare empty hands, knives, daggers, swords, spears, and of course, nunchakus, etc.

what do you mean?I mean I usually do nunchaku with my Arnis/Escrima skills. Many of Nunchaku techniques Bruce Lee showed are similar to Arnis techniques. And my arnis instructor confirmed my suspicions.

China!!! Chinese Kung Fu has influenced many martial arts including Karate and Tae kwon Do. Tae Kwon Do is a mixture of Korean Tang Soo Do, meaning "China Hand Way" and Japanese Karate. Tang Soo Do is a mixture of Sobak (grandfather of Tae Kwon Do) and Chinese martial arts. Karate is a blend of Okinawan Te and Chinese martial arts. Karate used to mean "China Hand".

There was a story that Lapu-Lapu killed Magellan with a sword and a cane.

I normally use arnis style for my nunchaku.

I heard that U.S. Navy Seals use Arnis' knife fighting techniques. I also was told that U.S. Marine Corps have studied hand-to-hand combat. What martial arts exactly do the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force separately use and practice?

I recently found these websites from the internet Yahoo search engine. http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=456 http://home.earthlink.net/~nunchakulaw/

Maddwraph, yes, Gracie Family are the ones who created Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. They are pretty important and influential. tufrthanu, I agree about Dan Innosanto. More martial artists to list. Itosu Anko- focused on developing a "safer" brand of Karate. He re-tooled several forms (kata) and eliminated lethal techniques. He also emphasized physical and mental conditioning and promoted the non-corporal benefits of training. Hitsui Maedakama- the Jiu-jitsu instructor and mentor of Gracies. Musashi Miyamato- creator of the Niten Ichi-ryu (two sword style) and the most famous swordmaster of all time. Okuyama Yoshiji- created Hakko-ryu style of Jiu-jitsu. Jean-Joseph Renard and Guy de Montgrillard- the world's first non-Japanese Judo teachers who opened Judo's first Western school in Marseilles, France in 1889. Su In Hyouk- creator of Kuk Sool Won, a Korean martial art which combines external and internal techniques. Source: A book called "The Complete Idiot's to Martial arts."

I have found various etymologies of the word "Karate" on different websites. Te is Japanese for "hand". Okinawan Te is a martial art and precursor of Karate. But kara means empty, right? some sources say Karate means "China hand" or "Chinese hand" because Karate is formed from the mixture of Okinawan Te and Chinese martial arts. Some more source say Karate is written as "Tang hand" from the Chinese Tang dynasty But other sources from dictionaries say Karate means "empty hand" in Japanese and mention that Kara means "empty". I found out that on another website it says Karate-dô means "China Hand Way" but it was changed from ‘China Hand Way’ to ‘Empty Hand Way’ Can anyone confirm or correct and explain what I have learned about Karate?

I'm talking about the influence any martial artist have on martial arts. 1. Bruce Lee- the one who introduced kung fu to Hollywood silverscreen and is arguably resonsible for the popularity of martial arts films. Before Bruce Lee, there was hardly a film that centers entirely on martial arts action. But today, martial arts films have become so common it is an independent genre. 2. Kano Jigoro- the founder of Judo and creator of the modern belt rank system used by most martial arts schools. 3. Jhoon Rhee- brought Tae Kwon Do to North America. 4. Remy Amador Presas- the Father of modern arnis (Filipino martial art of stickfighting) who revived the dying art of arnis to levels of popularity. . Before Presas, arnisadors (arnis practitioners) used their sticks to hit each other's hand rather than the stick since the stick is considered a sacred weapon. "Long ago, Arnis was a dying art," Presas says. "The old practitioners believed the cane was sacred. This meant they would always aim at the hand of their training partner and not at the cane for practice. Most of the students got hurt right away and immediately lost interest. I modernized this and promoted hitting the cane instead for practice. Then I identified the basic concepts of the many Filipino systems I had learned to bring a unity to the diverse systems of my country. This way, we could all feel the connection. http://www.professorpresas.com/Professor.htm http://www.modernarnis.com/remy_a_presas.htm 4. Ed Parker- a Karate and Chinese Kempo teacher who established the first commercial Karate school in the US. He sponsored a tournament where Bruce Lee participated which brought him to the attention of Green Hornet's production studio staff and to his budding stardom. 5. Hatsumi Masaaki-the world's most foremost ninjitsu expert who is famus for having revived the combative techniques employed by the Iga and Koga ninja clans who carried out acts of espionage and guerrila warfare in Feudal Japan. Sources: book called "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Martial Arts"

500 years ago, an arnis practitioner named Lapu-Lapu was said to have killed an explorer named Ferdinand Magellan, who was a fencer, in a battle. So do you think an arnis practitioner can defeat a fencer?

Try these two anime Ranma 1/2 Ikkitousen