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Martial arts originated in Asia as forms of self-defense, fighting, and spiritual/mental development. There are many styles that share the goal of self-defense, including punches, kicks, holds/throws, and weapons. Martial arts are divided into "hard" styles like karate that focus on attacking the opponent, and "soft" styles like judo that use an opponent's force against them in a less aggressive manner. This document provides an overview of martial arts and discusses judo, karate, and arnis as examples of different styles.

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Martial arts originated in Asia as forms of self-defense, fighting, and spiritual/mental development. There are many styles that share the goal of self-defense, including punches, kicks, holds/throws, and weapons. Martial arts are divided into "hard" styles like karate that focus on attacking the opponent, and "soft" styles like judo that use an opponent's force against them in a less aggressive manner. This document provides an overview of martial arts and discusses judo, karate, and arnis as examples of different styles.

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UNIT

Introductionto Martial Arts


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ARNING TOPICS: Overview


Martial Arts
Ancientand
people engaged in all types of fighting,
Its Type
hical Behavior of Martial Artists war, and hunting. Thus, each and very civilization contributed
their own version of Martial Arts Combat Techniques. Mostly,
people associate Asia with the term martial arts. During 600
ARNING OUTCOME:
BC, trade
monstrate the practical application of judo, karate, and arnis in law between India and China flourished which believed
enforcement.
have brought Indian Martial Arts to Chinese and vice versa.
According to legend, an Indian monk named Bodhidharma
facilitated the transmission of Chan (China) or Zen (Japan) to
China when he moved to southern China. His teachings lent a
lot to martial arts philosophies like humility and restraint that
continue even today. In fact, some have credited Bodhidharma
with the initiation of Shaolin martial arts, though this assertion
has been discredited by many.

Pretest
TRUE/FALSE: Read the given statements carefully. Write T on the space before the number
if the satatment is True and write F if the statement is False.
1. Judo is an example of Hard Martial Arts.
2. Martial arts can be both a sport and a therapy tool.
3. Martial arts skills can kill opponent.
4. Martial arts training can cause stress.
5. Sound action and judgment is a must to Martial artist.
LESSON Martial Arts and Its Type
1
OUTCOMES
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
Discuss the lateral meaning and implication of the three Martial arts namely: Judo, Karate, and Arnis.
Compare and Contrast the three Martial arts: Judo, Karate, and Arnis.

Learning Essentials

Introduction
The term “martial arts” refers to all of the various systems of combat training that have
been arranged or systematized. It mainly originated from Japan, Korea and China as forms
of self-defense,
fighting, entertainment as well as spiritual and mental Goal
development. In fact, the word 'martial' is derived from the name Self-defense
Mars, who was the Roman god of war. Fighting
In simple words, the martial arts is a fighting systems. There Competition
are many schools and styles of martial arts, but all Entertainment
share the same goal: the self-defense. Martial arts includes punches
(boxing, karate), kicks (taekwondo, kickboxing, karate), holds and Discipline
throws (judo, jujutsu, wrestling), weapons (iaijutsu, kendo, kenjutsu, Health And
naginatado, fencing, Filipino Arnis) or certain Fitness
combination of earlier mentioned elements (several styles of jujutsu).
The martial arts are divided in two great sets:
Hard in Martial Arts: means the so-called "hard martial arts" like karate and kickboxing
meeting force with an opposing
which give special consideration to the attack to beat the
force
opponent and the "soft martial arts" like the judo and the
Soft in Martial Arts: signifies a aikido which fight the opponent in a less aggressive method,
yielding, accepting, or non- using the force of the opponent to his own advantage.
resistive
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