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Existence_is _suffering
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Joined: 08 Jul 2007
Posts: 87
Location: Australia
Styles: I have experience in Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido
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 Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:38 am Post subject: Banned arts? |
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Are there any (Predominately empty-handed) martial arts that have been banned in any country? By Banned I mean the training of the art has been banned for any reason?
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The BB of C
KF Sempai
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 490
Location: New York
Styles: Cannon Style, Kuk Sool Won, Isshin-ryu
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I heard in China when the communists took over they banned a lot of martial arts and replaced it with performance Wushu. I heard they even hunted down and killed a lot of the old masters.
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NightOwl
KF Sempai
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 948
Location: Japan
Styles: This and that, Rookie Judo
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Totalitarian regimes tend to ban martial arts. This has led many times to irreversible damage to local martial arts culture. For example:
China- Masters killed, put in camps, etc. Most left the country for Hong Kong, Japan, USA, etc. Many documents were also destroyed by roving groups of youths following the call to 'cleanse' China of all old culture. Mao kicked the bucket, however martial arts culture in a lot of mainland china now equals contemporary wushu and sanshao.
Korea- Japanese occupation stamped out local martial arts that already had undergone a long period of reduced popularity. The martial arts you see today are mostly Japanese in origin.
Cambodia- The local martial art of Pradal Serey almost died along with a good portion of the masters. It is now a revival art, however it seems to be almost identical to MT which makes how much of the original art was preserved unclear.
Japan- Yeah, Japan. After defeat in WWII the Allies wanted to get rid of the martial culture that had been heavily promoted during the war. Thus they decided to ban martial arts.
Russia- I'm a bit hazy on Russian MAs, but needless to say I believe that even the guys who developed sambo for Russia where eventually killed in gulags.
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