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minion or domain, the monarchical orders and indeed the curial orders more generally were also the embodiments of the ideals of ...

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Pa Kua Ch’uan See Baguazhang (Pa Kua Ch’uan) Pacific Islands The South Pacific islands (Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Guam, and Ta ...

to fight well to survive during times when population pressures would have led to brutal warfare. These oral histories probably ...

Two staff weapons deserve special mention due to their uniqueness and lethality. The Maori, the aboriginal peoples of New Zealan ...

was developed for self-defense by these ingenious peoples. For example, lacking metal to construct swords, the Pacific islanders ...

Lua practitioners were taught the art of massage (lomilomi) and a Hawai- ian game of strategy known as konane.In this respect, i ...

Hawaiians included one-handed spears (ihe), a dagger made from wood (pahoa), a short club (newa), a two-handed club (la-au-palau ...

nal defeat and the match would end. Since this form of wrestling was also displayed during the Makahiki ceremonies, it is also a ...

References Balent, Matthew. 1993. The Compendium of Weapons, Armour and Castles.Taylor, MI: Palladium Books. Corcoran, John, and ...

cepted as an official sport. It quickly became one of the most popular events, so much so that pankration was later added to the ...

feet were permitted. All types of hand strikes were permitted, not just those with the closed fist, and a pankrationist was allo ...

Holds used in pankration were those designed to force an opponent to submit. For this reason, the most popular holds employed we ...

dent hit correctly, as striking improperly would be painful. These striking bags were known as korykos. Students were taught wre ...

to compete fairly and honestly, the enormous pressure for victory would have led to instances of cheating. Authors from the peri ...

With the explosion of popularity of martial arts in the 1960s and 1970s in America and Europe, pankration began a rebirth. Moder ...

Pattern Practice See Form/Xing/Kata/Pattern Practice Pentjak Silat See Silat Performing Arts Combat systems and specific martial ...

the imitation is of brave bodies and souls, the action is direct and muscu- lar, giving for the most part a straight movement of ...

The heroic display ethos of a culture or subculture is that collective set of behaviors, expected actions, and principles or cod ...

can be impossible to distinguish in some cases where a martial art ends and a performing art begins, as with the randai and sile ...