Fighting guilds
and masters of defence, 319, 322,
323–324
FILA. SeeInternational Amateur
Wrestling Federation
Filipino Constabulary, 89
Filipino martial arts (FMA)
and competitions, 433
history of, 422–426
and instructors, 433
and military training, 434
and police training, 434
and ranking system, 433
and technique, 431–433
and training, 432–433
and weapons, 426–431
The Fine Art of Jujutsu(Watts), 685
Finger movements, 794
Fiore die Liberi, 803
Firdawsi, 667
“Fire-arm,” 810
Firearms, 1, 83, 806, 810, 813
and Europe, 116
and Filipino martial arts, 431
and Japan, 192, 809
and military training, 83
First International Games, 822
First National Athletic Exhibition in
Tokyo, 234, 824
Fish, Marion, 679
Fisher, King, 150, 151–152
Fitzgerald, J. Henry, 826
Fitzsimmons, Bob, 51, 680
Fitzsimmons, Rose, 680
Fitzstephen, William, 799
Five Ancestors, 39–40
Five Animal exercises, 16
Five Configurations, 790
Five Star, 621
Five weapons, 67
Flaherty, Martha, 676
Fleming, Ian, 828
Fleuret, 810
Flos Duellatorum(Flower of Battle),
321, 803
Flying Tigers, 632
Flynn, Errol, 553
FMA. SeeFilipino martial arts
Foil, 109
Folk belief, 123–124, 132–134
Folk hero legends, 129–132
Folklore in the martial arts, 123–135.
See alsoBoxing, Chinese Shaolin;
Capoeira; Ninjutsu; Political
conflict and the martial arts; Silat
Fonda, Henry, 152
Foot binding, 667, 796Football, 27, 810
Footraces, 818
Ford, John, 151
Foreign Menace, 740
Forges, bellows-driven, 795
Form/xing/kata/pattern practice,
135–140
Former Han History, 299
The Former Nine Years War, 185
Former Nine Years War Picture Scroll,
191
Fort Benning, 55
Fox, Richard Kyle, 680, 821
Fox, Sir Malcolm, 85
France
and military training, 83–84
and savate, 519
and stickfighting, 560–561
and Vietnam, 654
and wrestling, professional, 736
Francesco, Master, 320
Frankish caballarii, 263
Fraternitas, 387
Fratres de Caceres, 373
Frazier, William D., 826
Frederick I, 78
Frederick II, 78, 374, 453
Frederick III, 377, 391
Freedom fighters, 90
Freeman, Charles, 819
Freestyle wrestling, 718
French literature
and chivalry, 81
French Order of the Star, 82
Frog boxing, 16
Froisart, Jean, 81
Frontinus, 670
Fu Xi, 618
Fudôchi shinmyôroku(Marvelous
Power of Immovable Wisdom)
(Takuan Sôhô), 494, 766–767
Fugitive slaves
and political conflict and the
martial arts, 435, 439–440
Fugner, Henry, 820
Fujian Monastery, 39
Fujibayashi Yasuyoshi, 812
Fujiwara family, 183, 186, 566
Fujiwara no Hirotsugu, 184
Fukuchi Seiko, 291
Fukuno Hichiroemon, 201, 812
Fulcher of Chartres, 452
Funa Benkei, 420
Funakoshi Gichin, 91, 201, 234,
235–236, 239, 241–242,
245–246, 290, 768, 824
Funakoshi Yoshitaka, 236852 Index