Martial Arts E-Book

Owen Jones

• Herausgeber: Tektime
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 45

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

When most people hear the phrase martial arts, they usually think of those of the Far East, and it is true that most of the ancient martial arts that people have heard of did originate there. However, most countries also developed fighting skills may centuries ago. For example, boxing and wrestling featured in the Olympic Games in Greece thousands of years ago.
However, there are also more modern recognised martial arts like French kick-boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Korean Tae Kwando and Japanese Aikido. If you search online for 'x martial art', where X is your target country, you will discover more.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.
When most people hear the phrase martial arts, they usually think of those of the Far East, and it is true that most of the ancient martial arts that people have heard of did originate there. However, most countries also developed fighting skills may centuries ago. For example, boxing and wrestling featured in the Olympic Games in Greece thousands of years ago.
However, there are also more modern recognised martial arts like French kick-boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Korean Tae Kwando and Japanese Aikido. If you search online for 'x martial art', where X is your target country, you will discover more.
So far, we have only mentioned physical martial arts. There are also others like archery and javelin throwing. In other words, most people's understanding on the phrase 'martial arts' is too limited. One should think of 'martial' as war(fare) and 'arts' as skills or methods. It opens up the scope of the words.
The information in this ebook on various aspects of martial arts both Eastern and Western is organised into 16 chapters of about 500-600 words each.

Leseprobe

Martial Arts

The lethal combination of ancient fighting skills…

by

Owen Jones

Published by

Megan Publishing Services

http://meganthemisconception.com

Copyright Owen Jones 2022 ©

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

Believe not in anything simply because you have heard it,

Believe not in anything simply because it was spoken and rumoured by many,

Believe not in anything simply because it was found written in your religious texts,

Believe not in anything merely on the authority of teachers and elders,

Believe not in traditions because they have been handed down for generations,

But after observation and analysis, if anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, accept it and live up to it.

Gautama Buddha

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Great Spirit, whose voice is on the wind, hear me. Let me grow in strength and knowledge.

Make me ever behold the red and purple sunset. May my hands respect the things you have given me.

Teach me the secrets hidden under every leaf and stone, as you have taught people for ages past.

Let me use my strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.

Let me always come before you with clean hands and an open heart, that as my Earthly span fades like the sunset, my Spirit shall return to you without shame.

(Based on a traditional Sioux prayer)

–—

“I do not seek to walk in the paths of the Wise People of old.

I seek what they sought!”

Matsuo Basho

Hello and thank you for buying this book called ‘Martial Arts - The lethal combination of ancient fighting skills…’.

I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.

When most people hear the phrase martial arts, they usually think of those of the Far East, and it is true that most of the ancient martial arts that people have heard of did originate there. However, most countries also developed fighting skills may centuries ago. For example, boxing and wrestling featured in the Olympic Games in Greece thousands of years ago.

However, there are also more modern recognised martial arts like French kick-boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Korean Tae Kwando and Japanese Aikido. If you search online for ‘x martial art’, where X is your target country, you will discover more.

So far, we have only mentioned physical martial arts. There are also others like archery and javelin throwing. In other words, most people’s understanding on the phrase ‘martial arts’ is too limited. One should think of ‘martial’ as war(fare) and ‘arts’ as skills or methods. It opens up the scope of the words.

The information in this ebook on various aspects of martial arts both Eastern and Western is organised into 16 chapters of about 500-600 words each.

I hope that it will interest those who are keen on foreign and domestic martial arts.

As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first.

If you have any feedback, please leave it with the company you bought this book from.

Thanks again for purchasing this book,

Regards,

Owen Jones

Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed martial arts is greatly popular now. It is as well-liked as wrestling was in the Seventies and Eighties. The difference is that everyone knew that wrestling was choreographed, whereas mixed martial arts (some fans call it cage fighting) is not. Mixed martial arts is for real and for very high stakes similar to those of world championship weighty weight boxing championships.

Mixed martial arts or MMA used to be completely unregulated and that put many people off in the late Eighties and Nineties, but now that there are safety rules (some, anyway), this extreme sport has become more mainstream. There are now two types of MMA though, sport and street. The former is more governed than the latter where virtually anything goes.

Despite the growing popularity of mixed martial arts, there is still no real governing body for the sport, although there are quite a number of organizations vying for the privilege on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain has at least three companies trying to become the regulator of MMA in the UK. The USA approximately the same.

One of the top organizers of MMA bouts, if not the top organizer, is Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC. They put on pay-per-view fights on cable television which can pay top fighters nearly a million dollars a fight! This just goes to show how popular mixed martial arts has gotten.

Aside from proceeds from pay-per-view and national TV, there is a huge amount being taken from spin-offs like videos, DVD’s and T-shirts. There are also collectibles, dolls and board games to say nothing of documentaries and books. Web sites on mixed martial arts abound as do blogs and forums. Most fighters also have Twitter and Facebook sites.

This has provoked youths of both sexes to join a gym and take up martial arts. This can only be a good thing. Training frequently will counteract the trend in Western children towards corpulence and will also help tackle bullying and street violence. Trained fighters hardly ever become bullies or muggers.