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I have been researching about all different kinds of martial arts. can anyone list all of the martial arts that exists? my list only has like 20

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Go on then, I'll start with the ones I can immediately think of (I'm tired so it wont be a complete list :P):

 

Karate do/jitsu

 

Ju do/jitsu

 

Nin do/jitsu

 

Kobu do/jitsu

 

Aiki do/jitsu

 

Ken do/jitsu

 

Iai do/jitsu

 

Tae Kwon Do

 

Kung Fu

 

Chinese Kempo

 

Tai Chi (if it counts!)

 

Kyoshu Jitsu (if its classes as a separate art)

 

Someone else can keep the list going ;)

Andy Wilkinson (Sandan)

Renketsu Karate Club Senior Instructor

(http://www.renketsu.org.uk)

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"kung fu" is any skill achieved through practice (such as cooking). "Weijia" is the chinese word for external fighting arts, "Neijia" for internal", "Wushu" for all fighting arts (as well as meing a single art/sport)

 

China and Indonesia alone breech 1000 styles (by most estimations I have seen). If you are only looking at top-level groupings, you go by country.. allowing for a little breakdown:

 

Weijia - Chinese external arts

 

Neijia - Chinese internal arts

 

Kuntao Silat - Indo/Chinese atrs (there are also pure Chinese and Phillipio arts by similar names)

 

Pentjak Silat - Indonesian arts with cultural flavors

 

Pukulan Silat - Indonesian arts without cultural flavors.

 

Karate - Porminant group of Okinawan MA (also exist in Japanese varients).

 

Jujitsu - Classic unarmed arts of Japan

 

TKD - Official sport-art of Korea, older arts squished under japanese.

 

Thai-Boxing - Catch-all term for Thai and Cambodian arts (such as Muay Thai).

 

I'm not sure of goot catch-all terms for western fighting groups (brodly defined as "pugulism" and "wrestling"). A specific list, even only covering the ones *I* know (surely a fraction) would be more than I'd care to type.

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I have been researching about all different kinds of martial arts. can anyone list all of the martial arts that exists? my list only has like 20

 

No.

 

There are literally thousands of martial arts styles. Kung Fu alone has hundreds, last time I checked.

Kuk Sool Won - 4th dan

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

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Not only are there thousands of existing martial arts styles, new ones are constantly being created!

1st dan & Asst. Instructor TKD 2000-2003


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i'll list all the major martial arts that are practiced today that i can think of. i won't go into sub-divisions and schools of martial arts. i won't bother with weapon arts either as there are gazillions of weapons and several arts for each weapon.

 

aikido

 

aikijitsu

 

boxing

 

brazilian jujitsu

 

capoeira

 

cuong nhu

 

hapkido

 

jeet kune do

 

judo

 

jujitsu

 

karate

 

kempo

 

kickboxing

 

krav maga

 

kuk sool won

 

kung fu

 

muay thai

 

pankration

 

pencak silat

 

tae kwon do

 

wrestling

 

there are hundreds of others but you're not likely to come across many more. there are also mixed martial arts.

shotokan karate nidan

jujitsu shodan

kendo shodan

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