DR. Marrufo

· 07 Feb 2022

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Martial Arts to Martial Games!

We started a series of posts that will talk about the origin of martial arts.

The word martiality owes its origin to the warrior god of Roman culture that was Mars. Hence, at present, martiality means everything related to military discipline, army or warrior. On the other hand, the word art refers to the possibility of man to beautifully express an emotion or feeling. In this way we can say that 'martial arts' 'is the generic name of man-made systems, with the aim of expressing and teaching the best techniques of military discipline and self-defense that it has developed.

What differentiates martial arts from aggression with physical violence is the organization of its techniques into a coherent system and the codification of effective methods. Nowadays, martial arts are practiced for different reasons including sports, health, personal protection, personal development, mental discipline, character building and self-confidence; moreover, since the strict meaning is that of “military arts” by extension it applies to all types of hands-on fighting body and historical military arts. In simple words, martial arts are combat styles with or without ancient weapons, which, like all arts, are also an expression of human beings and are not necessarily systematically or scientifically conceived.

Thus, the main eastern countries developed their self-defense system according to their cultural and religious traditions, as well as their physical and ethnic characteristics. Japan with Karate, China with Kung Fu and Korea with Taekwondo.

The origin of martial arts is very remote, believed to have been practiced 2,000 years before the birth of Christ; according to historians, they spread throughout the East thanks to the teachings of Buddhist monks, who devised a system of self-defense to protect themselves during their travels from bandits and wild animals.

In particular, the Buddhist monk, named Bodhidarma or Daruma Taishi, is attributed the first systematization of martial arts in the East; this Hindu monk, made a trip to the province of Honan in China, where he taught Zen Buddhism in the Shaolin Temple, as well as exercises in physical, mental discipline and struggle; system of struggle they called it Kwon Bop, which was later propagated by Buddhist monks, this being the possible origin of the systematization of these arts, which began to occur from the 19th century when the modern concept of martial arts emerged.

The concept of action in the Far East is related to the economy of movement and the freedom of choice involved in reacting to the advantages of the initiative. In this way, in martial arts, the concept of personal defense or protection takes precedence.

Another concept of oriental martial arts that has special relevance in its history is the doctrine that it is possible to overcome force through softness.

These components have been one of the fundamental attractions of martial arts, conceived as a concept related to, but at the same time superior to, the military arts.

In simple words, martial arts are combat styles; martial arts are an expression of the human being and, as all arts are not necessarily systematically conceived. There are many schools and styles of martial arts, but they all share one goal: self-defense.
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