Top 10 Martial Arts From Outside The Orient

When someone says “Martial Arts”, it conjures images of ancient Chinese warriors locked in combat or Samurai and Ninjas fighting it out in a bamboo forest. While it’s true the most popular martial arts originate from either Japan, China or elsewhere in Asia there are many forms of martial combat from other parts of the world. Here’s a list of ten of the coolest.

Highland Wrestling (Scotland)
Pankration (Greece)
European Fencing
Apache Knife Fighting (America)
Sambo (USSR)
Nguni stick fighting (Southern Africa)
Krav Maga (Israel)
(Ted got beat up by a girl!)
Jeet-Kune-Do (America)
Savate (France)
Capoeira (Brazil)
(All sorts of AWEsome!)

…more about each of these arts

Source: listverse.com

2 years ago

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