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Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. The three disciplines of modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also saber); each discipline uses a different kind of blade, which shares the same name, and employs its own rules. Most competitive fencers specialise in one discipline. The modern sport gained prominence near the end of the 19th century and is based on the traditional skill set of swordsmanship. The Italian school altered the historical European martial art of classical fencing, and the French school later refined that system. Scoring points in a fencing competition is done by making contact with an opponent.
The 1904 Olympics Games featured a fourth discipline of fencing known as singlestick, but it was dropped after that year and is not a part of modern fencing. Competitive fencing was one of the first sports to be featured in the Olympics and, along with athletics, cycling, swimming, and gymnastics, has been featured in every modern Olympics. (Full article...) -
Image 2Image 3Chong Chul Rhee, one of the original masters of taekwondo, founded the school in the mid-1960s. Two of Rhee's brothers, Chong Hyup Rhee and Chong Yoon Rhee, later came to assist him in the 1970s.)
C. C. Rhee claims the title 'Father of Australian Taekwondo' and Rhee Taekwon-Do is widely publicised as being Australia's first and biggest taekwondo school. It has at least 294 publicly listed dojang (training halls) in Australia, with perhaps around 1,400 dojang in total at its peak. Several Australian martial art school founders received their foundational taekwondo training in Rhee's school. (Full article...Image 4Image 5Image 6Image 7Image 8Image 9
Ancient Greek boxing (Greek: πυγμαχία pygmachia, "fist fighting") dates back to at least the 8th century BC (Homer's Iliad), and was practiced in a variety of social contexts in different Greek city-states. Most extant sources about ancient Greek boxing are fragmentary or legendary, making it difficult to reconstruct the rules, customs and history surrounding this activity in great detail. Still, it is clear that gloved boxing bouts were a significant part of ancient Greek athletic culture throughout the early classical period. (Full article...)Image 10As of 2023, there have been twenty recorded deaths resulting from sanctioned mixed martial arts contests and nine from unregulated bouts, none however in the largest MMA promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship. A 2006 study suggests that the risk of injury in general in MMA is comparable to that in professional boxing. For professional boxing matches, the Manuel Velazquez Boxing Fatality Collection lists 923 deaths during the 118-year period of 1890–2008. (Full article...)Selected biography
Armenian SSR, but left the country with her family at the age of five because of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Kentikian has lived in Hamburgsince 1996 and began boxing at the age of twelve.Kentikian is a two-time flyweight world champion, having held the unified World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) female titles between 2007 and 2012, and the WBA female title again from 2013 to 2017. Additionally, she held the Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) title twice between 2007 and 2017. During the 2009 WBA convention in Colombia she was named the first ever female Super champion. It was announced that this belt would be called "Susi Kentikian belt" for all other future Super champions. (Full article...)
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Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992.
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action-adventure games, a comic book series, a card game, films, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour. Mortal Kombat has become the best-selling fighting game franchise worldwide and one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.The series has a reputation for high levels of graphic violence, including, most notably, its
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Judo (Japanese: 柔道, Hepburn: Jūdō, lit. 'gentle way') is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally. Judo was created in 1882 by Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎) as an eclectic martial art, distinguishing itself from its predecessors (primarily Tenjin Shinyo-ryu jujutsu and Kitō-ryū jujutsu) due to an emphasis on "randori" (乱取り, lit. 'free sparring') instead of "kata" (pre-arranged forms) alongside its removal of striking and weapon training elements. Judo rose to prominence for its dominance over established jujutsu schools in tournaments hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁武術大会, Keishicho Bujutsu Taikai), resulting in its adoption as the department's primary martial art. A judo practitioner is called a "judoka" (柔道家, jūdōka, lit. 'judo performer'), and the judo uniform is called "judogi" (柔道着, jūdōgi, lit. 'judo attire'). (Full article...Judo Grand Slam Tokyo.Highest governing body International Judo Federation Characteristics Contact Yes Mixed-sex No Type Martial art Presence Country or region Worldwide Olympic Debuted in 1964
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Image 1AAncient China. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 2Modern forms are used in the sport of wushu, as seen in this staff routine (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 3A scene of ancient Greek pankratiasts fighting. Originally found on a Panathenaic amphora, Lamberg Collection. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 4Groundfighting in MMA. Differently from other grappling-based martial arts, you are allowed to strike your opponent when fighting on the ground. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 5MMA fighter attempts aArmbar submission on his opponent. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 8Bruce Lee popularized the concept of mixed martial arts via his hybrid philosophy of Jeet Kune Do during the late 1960s to early 1970s. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 9Two children training injudo techniques (from Judo)
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Image 11Depiction of fighting monks demonstrating their skills to visiting dignitaries (early 19th-century mural in the Shaolin Monastery). (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 12Martial arts fan (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 15Gichin Funakoshi (from Karate)
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Image 16Dragon Ball's main protagonist Goku uses a variety and hybrid of east Asian martial arts styles, including Karate. (from Karate)
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Image 17Japanese judoka Takamasa Anai Vs French judoka Thierry Fabre during the 2010 World Judo Championships held in Tokyo (from Judo)
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Image 18Judo (1935) (from Judo)
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Image 19Thethe Bund in Shanghai (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 20Mural at Shaolin temple from 1830's depicting forearm strikes and reverse kicks (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 21Eisho-ji temple, Tokyo (from Judo)
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Image 22Pankratiast in fighting stance, Ancient Greek red-figure amphora, 440 BC. (from History of martial arts)
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Image 23Olympic Judo pictogram (from Judo)
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Image 24Two judoka wearing judogi (from Judo)
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Image 25King Shō Shin (from Karate)
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Image 28A ring-side doctor attends to a fighter following a loss. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 29Jigoro Kano and Yamashita Yoshitsugu performing Koshiki-no-kata (from Judo)
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Image 30Bronze medal match at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (from Karate)
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Image 31Kung fu in Iran (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 32MMA gloves. They are fingerless gloves which allow both striking and grappling to occur. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 33An octagon cage used by the UFC. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 34Ancient Chinese weapons (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 35Yoshihiko Yoshimatsu attempting to throw Toshiro Daigo with an uchi mata in the final of the 1951 All-Japan Judo Championships (from Judo)
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Image 36A "Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 40Karatekas wearing different colored belts (from Karate)
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Image 41Two Brazilian fighters in aSport Wushu (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 42The judogi is made from a heavy weave to withstand the stress of throwing and grappling. (from Judo)
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Image 45Yuki Nakai fights UFC 1 finalist Gerard Gordeau at Vale Tudo Japan 1995 (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 46Jigoro Kano, founder of judo (from Judo)
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Image 47Throw during competition, leads to an ippon (from Judo)
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Image 50Kung fu sword (from Chinese martial arts)
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Image 51pancratium, an event which took place in the Roman Colosseum. Even as late as the Early Middle Ages, statues were put up in Rome and other cities to honor remarkable pankratiasts. This statue, now part of the Uffizi collection, is a Roman copy of a lost Greek original, circa 3rd century BC. (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 53Vale tudo match betweenthai boxer Flávio Molina and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner Marcelo Behring, 1984 (from Mixed martial arts)
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Image 56Fol. 4v of the I.33 (from History of martial arts)
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Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent—a far more difficult and complex task., Mastering Jujitsu
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