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Originally Posted by Oraenor
martial arts, a system of fighting was primarily designed to defend from a threat.
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Actually the Asian martial arts were initially designed as a form of excercise to keep buddhist monks in shape after long sessions of meditation. The excercises came from Da Mo (Boddhidarma) an Indian who made a trip to China to spread Buddhism. The Chinese took the excercises, learned them while also studying the way different animals attacked each other (shaolin 5-animals). The combination did not initially make sense, but overtime it developed into a set of excercises that could also be used as a fighting art.
The martial arts developed further to include weapons and were spread to Korea and Japan (via Okinawa).
Wrestling, as a combat sport, has been around long before gong fu.
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