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Upravlenije; State Intelligence Agency) was the military secret police re- sponsible for military espionage and intelligence ope ...

wear shorts or a wresting singlet, wrestling shoes, and a tight-fitting jacket known as a kurtka.The kurtka is tighter fitting t ...

In addition to this ranking system, the USSR Sports Federation had its own internal system of sambo ranking. Sambists who were a ...

Samurai Japan’s famous warrior order arose during the early part of the Heian pe- riod (A.D. 794–1185), a product of the same tr ...

A portrait of three men in Japan dressed as samurai warriors, wearing armor and carrying naginata (halberds) and katanas (long s ...

arms. The result was the gradual emergence of an order of professional fighting men in the countryside and the capital. Superfic ...

Godaigo, issued a call to arms against the shogunate, among those who an- swered him were Ashikaga Takauji and Nitta Yoshisada, ...

were inheritors of family warrior legacies dating back centuries, while oth- ers had clawed their way to this status from far hu ...

Mass, Jeffrey P. 1989. Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Sôryô System.Stanford, CA: Stan ...

puller]) into his savate. As the popularity of savate increased, more sa- vatiers(old spelling) began teaching formally. Due to ...

style. One should note that at this time the differences between boxing, wrestling, and savate were less defined than today, and ...

developed the glove system to rank his students. Colored sashes or colored cuffs on the gloves were used. Panache was taught onl ...

teach the techniques and logic of all of savate. By this effort, he preserved the full martial dimension of savate and has been ...

exists that can be started at green glove. Specialized training in how to teach, the logic behind the methods of training, and t ...

are launched from very low stances, deep crouches, or even creeping posi- tions. These stances are regarded as “signatures” of s ...

Until relatively late in the twentieth century the styles of silat, even in Indonesia, were extremely localized, with each villa ...

acteristics in regional styles of pentjak silat because of the physical charac- teristics of inhabitants and socioeconomic facto ...

precision, control, speed, and focus, and for the aesthetic, balance, effort- lessness, light-footedness, and fluidity. The prom ...

gion of Indonesia and most of the practitioners of silat are Islam, super- naturalism in this area has been influenced by Buddhi ...

is composed of indigenous silat, jûjutsu, aikidô, karate, boxing, Kôdôkan Jûdô, and other contemporary systems) proposed an ecle ...