Song Shuming, 824
Song To ̆k-ki, 604–605, 606, 608
Songs
and capoeira, 8, 64
Songshu(The History of the Liu Song
Dynasty), 181
Sonobe Hideo, 698
Sonza, Eustaquia de, 672
Sopanam, 422
Sorakichi Matsuda, 737
Sorjaturong, Chana, 354
Sorjaturong, Saman, 354
Soubise, 675
South America
and stickfighting, 562–563
South Carolina Gazette, 813
South Sea Islands, 406
Southeast Asia, 538–551
geography of, 538
history of, 538–541
and silat, 524–531
See also individual countries;Ki/qi;
Muay Thai; Philippines; Silat;
Thaing; Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao
Southern Intelligencer, 820
Southern Kalarippayattu
and training area, 644, 646
Southern Shaolin Monastery, 128
Southern Shaolin Temple, 39
The Sovereign Military Order of the
Hospital of Saint John of
Jerusalem, 79
Soviet freestyle wrestling, 825
Soviet Union, 507–508. See also
Russia
Spain, 115
and masters of defence, 318
Spanish Civil War, 86
Spanish-American War, 426
Sparring, 50
Spartacan Revolt, 141
Spears
and Filipino martial arts, 428–429
and stickfighting, 556
Spencer, Herbert, 497, 677–678, 820
Spenser, Edmund, 284
Speyer, H. von, 321
Sphairai, 45
Spiess, Adolf, 476
Spiridonov, Viktor A., 507, 508, 509
Spiridonov, Vladimir, 88
Spirit boxers, 814
Spirit of the Times, 819
Spirit possession, 818
Spiritual development. SeeReligion
and spiritual development:
Ancient Mediterranean and
medieval West; Religion and
spiritual development: China;
Religion and spiritual
development: India; Religion and
spiritual development: Japan
Spiritual education
in Japan, 479
Sport Friendship Association, 652
Sports
and fencing, 109
and jûdô, 213
and pankration, 414–415
and sambo, 510, 511–512
Sports, amateur
and boxing, 821
and classism, 821
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu
and Yue, 746
Ssangsu Kumbup, 600
Ssiru ̆m, 604, 605, 801
Stage combat, 551–558
and swordsmanship, 578
and technique, 554
and training, 553–554, 555–556
See alsoMasters of Defence;
Performing arts
Stage fighting
and technique, 554
Stalin, Josef, 88, 825, 827
State Shintô, 475–476, 481
Status
and social uses of the martial arts,
536
Statutes of Margat, 372
Stav, 560
Steps of Yu, 491
Stewart, Nellie, 679, 822
Stickfighting, 9, 827
and Africa, 4–5
and Caribbean, 562–563
and Europe, 556–557
and France, 560–561
and Germany, 559
and Indonesia, 803
and Ireland, 559–560
and Middle East, 338
and military training, 557
and the Netherlands, 560
and North America, 562
and Russia, 114–115, 561–562
and Scandinavia, 560
and South America, 562–563
and sports, 4–5
and United Kingdom, 557, 559
and Upper Egypt, 562
and Vietnam, 800
See alsoStickfighting, non-AsianIndex 881