who is the founder of martial art?

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who is the founder of martial art?

Answer 1

Looking at it from an Okinawan or Japanese martial arts perspective there are two legitimate ways someone can become a martial arts founder. The first and most recognized as being legitimate is that someone possessing high level knowledge and skills in already existing and legitimate martial arts starts teaching something that is both composed of those arts and yet something that brings a new way of applying that knowledge. Say like this example. He studies art 1) which is like the math expression that A=B, and art 2) that is like B=C. He through several decades discovers something that neither of those arts possesses such as the conclusion that A is also = C. Therefore he is able to see and do things that either of those arts did not teach him. If he teaches his blend for many years and after his death his followers keep doing and spreading that art, And it has proven itself to be effective, then over the years people begin to just accept that the art is a valid and effective art. While a few of these individuals li8ve long enough to see that the arts is being accepted as a style of its own, most of the time that level of acceptance by the martial arts community on general may take many more years beyond the founders life. The other way is an individual that meets the same requirements of training, understanding and background as the first individual I mentioned happens to be recognized by someone that inherited an existing legitimate martial arts style. In that case the Soke (head of a style (In Japanese or Okinawan arts)) decides to sponsor that person and the new arts they are teaching. He would then write out credentials stating that he recognizes the new style as being legitimate in itself and the founder as its Shodai-Soke (First Generation Soke). When this is done (and it is extremely rare), the style although recognized is not considered a fully accredited style until the new founder passes away and his successor is able to teach the style continuing the lineage and proving the styles effectiveness. The Shodai-Soke has the power to control everything in his style. however, he can't do one thing that someone that has inherited an already legitimate style can do. That is to say he does not have the power to recognize someone and sponsor their style. No organization composed of Shodai-Soke can legitimately get together and as a group recognize a new style. Only an inherited Soke has that power. I say that because there are many organizations out there that are recognizing new styles every day. But unless at least one inherited Soke is involved it is not legitimate.

Note: I have spent more than 35 or the last 47 years of my training in the martial arts gathering and confirming this information and its historical use.

Answer 2

Did you mean, "all martial arts"?



Or did you mean a particular martial art?



Or did you mean to ask how to become a founder?



If you meant all martial arts, there is no founder or one culture attributed to all martial arts.



If you meant a particular style, this can't always be answered: some styles have founders who are still alive; others by a known founder because he's more or less recently passed away (Morihei Ueshiba (aikido), or Gen Choi (itf taekwondo)); others (eg, WTF taekwondo) became a style because they merged from other schools who have well-known founders. Still others have founders who are legendary and cannot be proven, or, it is accepted that there is no known founder.



And if you meant, how to found your own style, simply hang up a shingle, start teaching what you know, and hope people take you seriously enough that you can garner respect in the community.

Answer 3

There is no single founder of all martial arts. If you look across cultures, even those with no contact with one another, you'll see forms of fighting that look remarkably similar. That's because there are only so many ways to fight. I don't know a grappling system that does not have some form (or several, in some cases) of the hip throw. Foot sweeps, straight and bent arm locks, shoulder throws, and leg dives are also common. In systems with strikes, you get straight and circular hand techniques, front kicks, etc. Cornish Wrestling and Judo look almost identical on the feet; pre-Queensberry rules boxing resembled karate and Wing Chun Kung Fu, in some aspects. People all over the world and at different times throughout history learned how to fight in remarkably similar ways.

Answer 4

At what point would you consider a fighting method a martial art? Martial art is something that developed over generations and was not just invented by one person. Early fighting styles were much more crude.

Answer 5

There is no one founder of martial arts. For example, the founder of Matsubiashi shorin ryu is sensei Nagamine. where as thai kwon do is founded by some one else.

Answer 6

The founders of martial arts are the "Sons Of Reflected light" and/or "Tengu".

Answer 7

The first monkey to throw a slap was the first martial artist. You can probably go back further than that. The first multi-cellular organism to contact another organism was the first martial artist, which probably happened about 2 billion years ago. I like to think he was called Bob.

Answer 8

There is more than one kind of martial art and they are not all created by one person.

Answer 9

The martial arts was started by religious persons, whose religion forbade them to carry weapons. To protect themselves from robbers, they developed an advanced form of hand to hand combat.

Answer 10

there are tens of thousands of founders of all the styles, it would be impossible to list them all

Answer 11

that my friend is a mystery. but the birth place of martial arts is the ancient Indian sub-continent. and Bodhi Dharma is the founder of systematic martial arts.



With the historical progress of VEDIC civilization the creation of a methodical strategy for the art of self-defense evolved in to a systematic form and was religiously nourished by the warriors of the ancient India – the mother land of Martial Arts. The ‘Kshatriyas’ lead the way to the sparkling rays of the golden heritage of oldest of all arts, the art of self-defence and survival. Basically Martial Arts transforms human basic instinct to a science and that happened in every culture since antiquity and still taking place even today all over the world – but in different changed scale. Literally in the all field of knowledge and culture, even in the vital field like education India (*present sub-continent) pointed the finger to the rest of the world by establishing World's first two Universities named NALANDA and TAKSASHILA. To confirm the history as an educated civilization developed many a unique blessings like mathematical term ZERO, Yoga, Chess etc for the mankind.

A member of the Kshatriya or warrior caste, Bodhidharma, thethird prince of King Sugandha in the Conjeeveram, also known as Kanchipuram province, south of Madras and capital of the Southern Indian kingdom of Pallava, played a pioneer role in the root and history of Martial Arts. He had his childhood in Kanchipuram and became one of the most brilliant students of the Vedas, Siddha medicine, meditation and philosophy. When he reached the age of twenty-three as a prince he could directly access different experts and perfected the art of unarmed combat from his Gurus as well. He was also instructed by the 27th patriarch of Buddhism, Prajnatara from Magadha. As he absorbed the truth of Buddhism he decided to become a monk. Bodhidharma spontaneously progressed in his Buddhist studies and soon became enlightened. Later according to his master‘s wish he started his journey and arrived in China around 520 A.D after two and half years as the 28 th patriarch and founder of Chan or Zen doctrine.

When Bodhidhama arrived at the Shaolin Temple, which means 'Young Forest', and said to be the cradle of Martial Arts, established in 496 AD and 13 KM from present DENG FENG village, in the valley of Song Sung mountain, Honan Province, North East China where he found that the monks were in very poor physical condition. Bodhidharma created an exercise program for the monks which involved physical techniques that were efficient in strengthening the external and internal human organs, and eventually, could be used as a means of self-defense. The primary aim was to make the monks psychophysically balanced to withstand their isolated lifestyle, demanding training and meditation requires. He taught them I Chin China (Muscle/Tendon changing classic) and Hsi Sui Chin (Marrow Washing Classic).In the process those basic 18 movements introduced by him is today known as the 18 Lohan Qi Qong Movement or “Eighteen Hands of the Lohan” - the basis of Shaolin Kung Fu system, which was forged and developed over the centuries by the Shaolin Monks.

Even today after many a fire accidents. wall paintings and murals at the Shaolin Temple left the Indian Master’s impressions alive. On one of the temple walls, a fresco can be seen, showing dark-skinned (Indian) monk, teaching lighter-skinned (Chinese) monks the art of bare-handed fighting skills.” Under this painting, the words “Tenjiku Naranokaku” are .inscribed in Chinese, which translates in English to “The fighting techniques to train the body from India”, supporting the view that Bodhidharma's exercises were in fact the reflection of the ancient Indian martial arts. Therefore, religious preaching of the Buddhist monks linked the systematic art of Self defense to the world by crossing the borders of the Indian sub-continent while they aimed to spread the Mahayana teachings of Chan Buddhism to the Chinese and soon it perfumed the garden of Chinese culture and began to spread throughout Japan ,Korea and then other countries across the globe. As a Chinese Ambassador to USA, Hu Shih once said “India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.”. He was referring to the spread of Buddhism into China. A hall room inside the Shaolin Temple’still today has the statue of the leading dark skinned monk [Bodhidharma], re-confirming the Bodhidharma’s father figure & the Indian sub-continental heritage of Martial Arts”

Answer 12

Necessity is the mother of inventions.

Answer 13

BRUCE LEE

Answer 14

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