Martial Arts Book (ePub)

The martial art of boxing is being practiced from the era of
ancient Thira, maybe even before that. There are several
purposes of practicing martial arts. The main goal is practicing
combat since martial arts are a combination of codified systems
and traditions of various combat techniques. The main reasons
behind practicing martial arts are for self-defense, military and
law enforcement. Sometimes it is even practiced to attain
spiritual and mental peace and development. In some nations,
martial arts are practiced and performed to serve entertainment
in order to preserve the intangible cultural heritage of that
particular nation.
In historical documents of eastern Asia, martial arts are
associated with their own fighting style or fighting arts.
However, the roots of original martial arts are found in the
European combat system as early as in beginning of second
half of sixteenth century. The term "Martial Art" is derived
from Latin origins. In Latin, it is referred as "Arts of Mars".
Mars is the Roman god of war. There were many arguments
made by several authors that fighting arts or fighting system
would be more suitable for this ancient art. On the basis of
their application or their creation by professional fighters, martial
arts are never "martial".
The base concept of martial arts is to make people understand
and recognize the martial arts. Different stages of history
describe the term of martial arts differently. This concept and
relation will keep developing and changing as the society and
martial arts does. The term martial art is referred with various
names in the history. As described in Chinese history, martial
arts were known as "attacks and defense skills" in the era of
springs and autumn and the period of warring states. Term
martial art was used in the era of Han dynasty and Ming
dynasty. In Ching and Nan dynasty, tern martial arts were
used in reference to several military affairs and practices.
During the short period of Republic of China, martial arts were
referred as Chinese martial arts. Later on, it became martial
arts once and for all with the foundation of New China / Red
China or the Peoples republic of china. As the history was
progressing, cold weapons were disappearing eventually. Many
professional martial arts weapons are now produced.