muslim fighting arts forums

[lionleo]

Please read my other forum regarding this.

[VT3]

Watch out them Muslim SOBs dont gut yer head off!

[lionleo]

Honestly I am not cocerned about that kind of Muslims..they are all in Iraq..

[bahotae]

Never seen any Muslim fighting arts

I have lived in Mindanao, South Cotabato never seen anyone practicing Muslim fighting arts. I have seen alot of cultic martial arts eg; Pulahan, Greenan, Puti-an, Sphinx .Never seen Muslim arts.

[krys]

I have lived in Mindanao, South Cotabato never seen anyone practicing Muslim fighting arts. I have seen alot of cultic martial arts eg; Pulahan, Greenan, Puti-an, Sphinx .Never seen Muslim arts.

Hello Botahe
I practice filipino muslim martial arts: silat and blade arts are taught in my brotherhood.
I lived in Davao del Sur (Digos city) for a while, will go to Basilan-Sulu this summer and hope to learn there too.

Could you describe these cultic arts? One of the bodyguards of the familly I lived with in Digos was a tad-tad and he showed some of the judo combat they practiced.

[bahotae]

Cultic martial arts

Krys,

Filipino Cultic martial arts: Martial arts that involve Sorcery and Witchcraft. The fighting arts they practice they use traditional Filipino weapons. But most of the time they use guns. They believe that their oracion and anting-anting will make them invulnerable to bullets and bladed weapons.They usually fight along with the Philippine military against Muslim separatist guerrillas.

One of the famous cults the Ilaga led by Komander Toothpick is said to have drove the Muslims away from South Cotabato. South Cotabato is now Predominantly Christian and so is Davao and Digos.

Another group which you have already mentioned the Tadtad is composed of two factions which are the Pulahan and Putian. The Pulahan are distinguished by their red turbans and the Puti-an by their all-white attire.

Sphinx is basically Philippine Karate they are distinguished by having dots tattoed on their forehead. Dots similar to those Shaolin monks that we see in the movies except that they are tattoed. They have beliefs similar to Taoism.

Please don't take this all as fact I'm just doing this by memory. I may have some mistakes. Pls feel free the correct me.

[krys]

Another group which you have already mentioned the Tadtad is composed of two factions which are the Pulahan and Putian. The Pulahan are distinguished by their red turbans and the Puti-an by their all-white attire.

I'm not really sure which group he was part of....
he said that you had to eat a part of your first ennemy killed (usually the ear). Roberto Manero one ilaga leader once shot an italian priest and ate his still warm brains in a public market of Mindanao... One group I heard of in Davao carries human kneecaps as anting antings....

[Snake137]

Middle Eastern martial arts

Hey, I'm new here... But I read your forum about middle eastern or arabic martial arts... Well I've studied various forms around the world for alittle while now, and they do have some middle eastern hand-to-hand combat styles. They are

1. Sebbekkha (Egypt)
2. Varzesh e-Pahlavani (Iran).
3. Dervish (muslim priesthood, I think some place in North Africa)
However, finding info on them may prove difficult. My sources for discovering them seem to have went off-line now. I would like help from others if possible in trying to get a comprehensive guide to unarmed martial arts from all cultures, somewhat of an on-line encyclopedia page for different styles so that it could make learning these styles easier. This is what I have thus far, but I will exclude Asia on here because Asian martial arts are bovious, they are everywhere. But this is what I have on the rest of the world:

Europe:
boxing (UK, although black and hispanic Americans excell mostly at it)
Zipota (Basque region of Spain)
savate (France
Pankration (Greece)
Arte del Abbracciare (Italy)
capuan boxing/pommachon (Italy)
Kampfringen (Germany)
Stav (viking art of Norway, Scandanavia, Finland, etc)
Sambo (Russia)
Greco-Roman Wrestling (Greece and Rome, ancient)

Africa:
Re Efi Areh Ehsee
Nubian wrestling
Dambe boxing
Spider-monkey style
African Kick fighting
Capoeira
African Lion Style
Middle East:
Sebbekkha
Varzesh e-Pahlavani
Dervish
US/Canada
US Kempo karate
Jail House Rock (prison system of fighting for African Americans)
Native American:
Inikti (hard as h*ll to find any info on)
Island:
KaJuKenBo (Hawaii)
Lua (Hawaii)
*sumo is also big in the islands*
South America:
Brazilian capoeira
Vale Tu Do (Brazil)
Lesser Known Asian Styles:
Cheena Adi (Sri Lanka)
Vovinam (Viet Nam)
Quan Ki Do (Viet Nam)
and a few other Korean ones but I'm too tired to list them right now.

[Batleth]

This is my first post in this forum and I don't want to get off on the wrong foot. I think that the confusion comes from calling something a "muslim" art when we usually refer to martial arts as being designated via their area of origin. Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Okinawan, Filipino, etc. Krav Maga is referred to as an Israeli martial art, not a "Jewish" martial art. The only religous connection that comes to mind with Traditional Martial Arts is Shaolin Kung Fu, and perhaps the Indian/Indonesian art (Silat/Kali?) that was practiced by the Thuggee ages ago. I've seen so called Christian arts but they were basically faith-based dojos that taught TKD or TSD. I went to the site with an open mind and everything looked very interesting, except for the person on the website's front page with AK-47 wearing the terrorist style headress and face covering. Maybe that's normal in the Middle East. I've never been there, but it unnerved me a bit. I don't bad talk anyone art. If the art you practice works for you, then good on ya. Hope I didn't offend anyone.

[Snake137]

ignorance

You can't blame every muslim for the acts of some of them. I'm sorry, but blaming a whole race of people on the actions of a minority group within them is ignorant. Did you ever stop to think that there are some muslims in America who aren't tied to terrorism, that are just people like you and me, and are sick and tired of being labled a terrorist?

[Tant01]

Sheesh. Old threads back from the dead...

A muslum fighting art? That's fine... A Muslum martial art? What does a Roman god of war (Mars) have to do with it?


This thread should go back to the grave.