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There has been a lack of reliable academic studies regarding Filipino martial arts (FMA) that have uniquely developed in the Philippine archipelago. This anthology assembles pioneering scholarly materials valuable for any interested in the Filipino combatives, as well as chapters specifically on the practice.Mark Wiley stands out as a leading scholar/practitioner of the Filipino arts. This book contains three chapters by him. In the first, he conducted linguistic and historical research to present the developmental background of the ancient Filipino kali and European fencing systems, thus illuminating the evolution of classical eskrima.In chapter two, Wiley attempts to classify Filipino martial arts and explore the ethos of Filipino martial culture by deriving information directly from the contemporary grandmasters who have maintained an oral transmission of information concerning the evolution and development of their respective martial systems. Part of Wiley's research also led him to seek out special repositories of artifacts. Museums collections rarely include much on Southeast Asian weapons. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has nearly 1,000 martial artifacts in storerooms from the Philippines, including swords, knives, spears, shields, helmets, and armor discussed in Wiley's third chapter.On a practical side, Steven Dowd presents the art of Carlita Lanada who studied martial arts as passed down within his own family in the Philippines. He calls his rendition Kuntaw Lima-Lima, an art whose techniques are reminiscent of Okinawan karate styles, with hints of Chinese gongfu. Presented are the underlying principles, and a sayawan (form) with applications.Majia Soderholm's chapter is about Visayan Corto Kadena Eskrima and some of its concepts and training methods with regard to free-sparring with swords. It is a Filipino martial system encompassing empty-hand and non-bladed and bladed weapons.Peter Hobart presents a wonderful tribute to Remy Presas, the founder of Modern Arnis. This retrospective is comprised of the stories and memories of many of those who knew him. Topics include Presas' theory and practice of arnis, such as importance of flow, and memories of his last seminar.The chapter by Ruel Macaraeg dives into the topic of piracy in the Philippines. His study reconstructs the pirates' martial practices through comparative historical analysis of their weapons, costume, and organization in order to draw conclusions about their relationship to martial cultures in the Philippines and across the region. In the final chapter, Ken Smith discusses a few of his favorite techniques from Modern Arnis. His insights-as well as the information found in the previous chapters-contribute to the academic understanding of Filipino martial traditions as well as the actual practice of kali, escrima, and arnis. We hope you'll enjoy the reading.

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This landmark work provides a wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the traditional Asian martial arts. Most of the contributors to the volume are practitioners of the martial arts, and all are keenly aware that these traditions now exist in a transnational context. The book's cutting-edge research includes ethnography and approaches from film, literature, performance, and theater studies.Three central aspects emerge from this book: martial arts as embodied fantasy, as a culturally embedded form of self-cultivation, and as a continuous process of identity formation. Contributors explore several popular and highbrow cultural considerations, including the career of Bruce Lee, Chinese wuxia films, and Don DeLillo's novel Running Dog. Ethnographies explored describe how the social body trains in martial arts and how martial arts are constructed in transnational training. Ultimately, this academic study of martial arts offers a focal point for new understandings of cultural and social beliefs and of practice and agency.

Martial arts --- Martial arts. --- Social aspects.

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Les arts martiaux et les sports de combat : une diversite de pratiques etonnantes ! Description Ce sixieme opus de la collection aborde les arts martiaux et les sports de combat sous l'angle de la diversite des pratiques. Parce que le panorama social est pluriel, ces disciplines doivent être envisagees dans leur forme individuelle et singuliere pour en saisir toute la complexite. Les textes presentes dans cet ouvrage montrent comment les arts martiaux et les sports de combat existent et evoluent dans nos societes selon differentes finalites : la maniere dont certains praticiens s'investissent dans la recherche ; comment les milieux sociaux des disciplines influent sur les praticiens ; la construction sociale des valeurs chez les praticiens ; la façon dont les blessures sont vecues et interpretees ; la place du corps dans les entraînements exigeants en fonction d'une recherche de haute performance ; ainsi que le rapport aux disciplines au sein d'une societe qui cherche à maintenir ses pratiques traditionnelles dans un monde en changement. Cet ouvrage reunit des collaborations de chercheurs universitaires. Tous ont en commun l'interêt de l'avancement des connaissances sur la thematique des arts martiaux et des sports de combat par le moyen des sciences sociales.

Martial arts --- Social aspects.

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Martial arts fiction, Chinese.

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Boxing with a kick!

Mixed martial arts.