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KARATE-popularfor its calculated,angularmovements usingpunches, blocks,and kicks,originates fromJapan.

KARATE

specializing in the art of throwing, off-balancing, sweeping, and locking are also from Japan.

AIKIDO AND JUDO

is another martial art from Japan specializing in groundwork and grappling.

JUJITSU (JIUJITSU)

is a martial art and a full contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was developed in China after 1949, in an effort to standardize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts.

WUSHU

-is an internal Chinese martial art practiced for both its defense training and its health benefits. The term taiji refers to a philosophy of the forces of yin and yang, related to the moves.

TAICHI (TAIJI)

is a Chinese term referring to any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete. In its original meaning, kung fu can refer to any discipline or skill achieved through hard work and practice, not necessarily martial arts.

KUNG FU

is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This physical and mental discipline which includes combat on shins.

MUAY THAI

is a Khmer martial art that includes weapons techniques. One of the oldest existing fighting systems in Cambodia, oral tradition indicates that bokator or an early form thereof was the close quarter combat system used by the armies before Angkor 1700 years ago.

BOKATOR

is a French martial art that uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of western boxing with graceful kicking techniques.

SAVATA

is a collective word for a class of indigenous martial arts from a geo-cultural area of Southeast Asia encompassing most of the Nusantara, the Indonesian Archipelago, the Malay Archipelago and the entirety of the Malay Peninsula.

SILAT

is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

WESTERN BOXING

is a Filipino Martial Art that involves hand and mostly foot fighting. As Sikaran is a general term for kicking which is also used as the name of the kicking aspects of other Filipino Martial arts.

SIKARAN

is the Filipino style of wrestling while standing upright and refers to the grappling aspect of Filipino martial arts. The word dumog is most commonly used in Mindanao and the Visayas, while the word buno is used in Luzon specifically in the Southern Tagalog-speaking provinces as far south as Mindoro.

DUMOG

is a Hokkien term for the martial arts of the Chinese community of Southeast Asia, specificallythe Malay Archipelago. It is most commonly practicedin and associated with Indonesia, Malaysia,the Philippines and Singapore.

KUNTAO

is the Philippinemartial art of stick fighting; however, emptyhand techniques are alsoemployed.

ARNIS

is the Philippine indigenous martial art of stick-fighting. Also known by other names such as eskrima and kali, arnis in other countries is known as Filipino Martial Arts or FMA.

ARNIS

An act declaring that arnis is the national martial art and sport of the Philippines.

Republic Act 9850

was originally developed by the people native to the islands using simple impact and edged weapons such as kampilans, rattans, swords, daggers, spears and other assorted weaponry for combat and self-defense. These weapons were also sometimes used as farm implements.

Arnis/Kali/Escrima

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