Martial Arts http://www.anymartialarts.com All Kung Fu Martial Arts Self Defense Weapons and Stars Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:32:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Kung Fu Martial Arts Movies http://www.anymartialarts.com/kung-fu-movies/kung-fu-martial-arts-movies/ http://www.anymartialarts.com/kung-fu-movies/kung-fu-martial-arts-movies/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:32:21 +0000 admin http://www.anymartialarts.com/?p=540 Continue reading →]]> Over 700 Martial Arts Kung Fu movies, check it out, click here

Here’s just a few title.

DRAGON THE BRUCE LEE STORY
CRYSTAL HUNT
THE MIRACLE FIGHTERS
IRON MONKEY 2
THE 36 DEADLY STYLES
THE RETURN OF THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS
SHAOLIN MASTER KILLER
FIVE DEADLY VENOMS
FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH
JACKIE CHAN MASTER WITH CRACKED FINGERS
RETURN OF THE CHINESE BOXER
FIST OF LEGEND
JACKIE CHAN WHO AM I?
RUMBLE IN THE BRONX
SPIRITUAL KUNG FU
IRON MONKEY STARRING DONNIE YEN
TAI CHI II YUEN WO PINGS
NAKED KILLER
WING CHUN
18 SECRETS OF KUNG FU
HITMAN IN THE HAND OF BUDDHA
KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
MARTIAL ARTS OF SHAOLIN SHAOLIN TEMPLE 3
CHINESE CONNECTION
SNAKE IN THE EAGLES SHADOW
MAGNIFICENT BODYGUARD
FISTS OF FURY
SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN
DRUNKEN MASTER
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA 2
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA 3
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA & AMERICA
HITMAN
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA 4
BORN INVINCIBLE
DRAGONS CLAWS
CHINESE SUPER NINJA
SHAOLIN VS. LAMA
SHAOLIN V NINJA
JET LI THE DEFENDER
JET LI THE ENFORCER
CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON
18 FATAL STRIKES
SHAOLIN CHASTITY KUNG FU
SLEEPING FIST
FISTS OF LEGEND 2: IRON BODYGUARDS
THE SHAOLIN DRUNKEN MONK
FISTS AND GUTS
THE WARRIOR FROM SHAOLIN
THE LEG FIGHTERS
CHALLENGE OF DEATH
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA 1
THE HOT THE COOL AND THE VICIOUS
FONG SAI YUK II
CHALLENGE OF THE NINJAS SHAOLIN CHALLENGES NINJA
FATAL FLYING GUILLOTINE
RETURN TO THE 36TH CHAMBER
DIRTY HO
LEGENDARY WEAPON OF KUNG FU
SHAW BROTHERS
HEROES AMONG HEROES
THE TAI CHI MASTER JET LI
THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE
FIST OF THE WHITE LOTUS
FONG SAI YUK I
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA
REVENGE OF THE PATRIOTS
THE MASTER
FURY IN SHAOLIN TEMPLE
SHAOLIN KING BOXER
SHAOLIN INVINCIBLE STICKS
EXECUTIONERS FROM SHAOLIN
PRODIGAL SUN PULL NO PUNCHES
THE HEROIC TRIO
THE EIGHT ESCORTS
ZU THE WARRIORS
A MAN CALLED HERO
LAST HERO IN CHINA
7 WONDER SEVEN
DRAGON FROM SHAOLIN
THE MOON WARRIORS
BEST OF THE MARTIAL ARTS FILMS
BARE FOOT KID
THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR
THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR 2
SWORDSMAN II
THE NEW LEGEND OF SHAOLIN
THE KUNG FU CULT MASTER
KILLER ARMY
TEN TIGERS OF KWANGTUNG
NINE DEMONS
INVINCIBLE SHAOLIN AKA UNBEATABLE DRAGON
MASKED AVENGERS
THE SPEARMAN
DREADNAUGHT
SHAOLIN EX-MONK   RENEGADE MONK
THE BUDDHA ASSASINATOR
SHOGUN ASSASSIN
SHAOLIN MARTIAL ARTS
BOXER FROM SHANTUNG KILLER FROM SHANTUNG
TWO CHAMPIONS OF SHAOLIN
MEN FROM THE MONASTERY AKA DISCIPLE OF DEATH
THE STORM RIDERS
INVINCIBLE OBSESSED FIGHTER
FIVE FINGERS OF STEEL
FEARLESS DRAGON
JADE CLAW CRYSTAL FIST
DR WAI IN THE SCRIPTURE WITH NO WORDS
EAGLE VS SILVER FOX
SNAKE IN THE MONKEYS SHADOW
DUEL TO THE DEATH
JACKIE CHAN SNAKE IN THE EAGLES SHADOW II
THE INVINCIBLE POLE FIGHTER THE 8 DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER
AVENGING WARRIORS OF SHAOLIN
CHINATOWN KID
KUNG FU INSTRUCTOR
THE LEGEND OF ZU
THUNDERING MANTIS
KUNG FU GENIUS
THE BLADE
LAST HURRAH FOR CHIIVALRY

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The Tabak-Toyok is a Filipino version of the nunchaku. The primary difference between the Filipino version and other versions of the weapon is that the Tabak-Toyok tends to have shorter handles as well as a longer chain. Each handle is approximately four inches long. The length of the rope or chain that attaches each handle is approximately six inches long. The size of this weapon varies depending on the user.

Filipino martial artist Dan Inosanto teaches the Filipino use of the Tabak-Toyok in his Filipino Kali curriculum. Dan Inosanto introduced his close friend and teacher, the legendary Bruce Lee, to the weapon.[1] Bruce Lee is infamous for his cinematic fight scenes portraying the weapon. As a result, Bruce Lee’s smaller nunchaku bear a resemblance to these.

In the Philippines, the Tabak-Toyok is popularly known as the chako. It is often used as a street weapon in Filipino brawls. The smaller size of the Tabak-Toyok allows for easy concealment and everyday carry. The weapon is best used at long-range.

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The small sword or smallsword (also court sword, fr: épée de cour or dress sword) is a light one-handed sword designed for thrusting. The small sword evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier of the late Renaissance. The height of the small sword’s popularity was between mid 17th and late 18th century. It is thought to have appeared in France and spread quickly across the rest of Europe. The comparative lightness of the small sword and the resulting ease of manipulation led to the development of the sophisticated handwork and the linear footwork of modern fencing, and it can be considered as the immediate predecessor of the modern foil and épée.

The small sword could, in the right hands, be a highly effective duelling weapon, but as with the rapier its function was often reduced to that of jewellery. Many surviving examples carry elaborate baroque, rococo, or occasionally neoclassical decorations. The fashion for wearing swords with civilian dress rapidly declined at the end of the 18th century, and the civilian use of the small sword was subsequently restricted to certain ceremonial occasions.

Militarily, small swords continued to be used as a standard sidearm for infantry officers. In some branches with strong traditions, this practice continues to the modern day, albeit for ceremonial and formal dress only. The carrying of swords by officers in combat conditions was frequent in World War I and still saw some practice in World War II. The 1913 U.S. Army Manual of Bayonet Drill[1] includes instructions for how to fight a man on foot with a small sword. Small sword are still featured on parade uniforms of some corps.

As a rule, the blade of a small sword is comparatively short at around 0.6 to 0.85 metres (24 to 33 in), though some reach over 0.9 metres (35 in). It usually tapers to a sharp point but may lack a cutting edge. It is typically triangular in cross-section, although some of the early examples still have the rhombic and spindle-shaped cross-sections inherited from older weapons, like the rapier. This triangular cross-section may be hollow ground for additional lightness. Many small swords of the period between the 17th and 18th centuries were found with colichemarde blades.

The small sword guard is typically of the “shell” type, with two lobes that were decorated as clam shells. In some cases, the shells folded over to make the weapon more comfortable when slung at the hip. The shells were often replaced with a simple curved oval disk, which was still referred to as the coquille (shell). In later foils, the lobed type evolved into the “lunette” or figure-8 guard, and the disk became the modern foil “bell” guard, but the guards were still referred to as coquilles. Small swords with this type of guard normally included other features of the older rapier hilt, including quillons, ricasso, knuckle-bow, and a pas d’âne, although these were often atrophied beyond the point of usefulness, serving mainly as a decorative element. However, they were maintained in a usable state on some weapons, including the Italian foil, into the 20th century.

In the 19th century, simple cross-hilt small swords were also produced, largely as ceremonial weapons that were evocative of more ancient types of weapons. An example is the Model 1840 Army Noncommissioned Officers’ Sword, which is still used by the United States Army on ceremonial occasions. As the wearing of swords fell out of fashion and the small sword evolved into the duelling sword (forerunner of the modern épée), the older decorative hilts gave way to more utilitarian grips such as the French grip and Italian grip.

]]> http://www.anymartialarts.com/martial-arts-weapons/small-sword/feed/ 0 Sling http://www.anymartialarts.com/martial-arts-weapons/sling/ http://www.anymartialarts.com/martial-arts-weapons/sling/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:59:57 +0000 admin http://www.anymartialarts.com/uncategorized/sling/ Continue reading →]]> View detail of all martial arts weapons in the world. Each martial arts have their own unique weapons fighting style. Read more to view detail and video clips about this special unique martial arts.

The word sling may refer to:

In medicine

In clothing

In heavy equipment supports a weight by contacting 2 or more points using cable,chains or rope to a single point of lift to evenly distribute weight

In geography / places

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A scimitar (IPA: /’s?m?t?/) is a sword with a curved blade design finding its origins in Southwest Asia (Middle East).

The name can be used to refer to almost any Middle Eastern or South Asian sword with a curved blade, and is often thought of as having a ridge near the end. They include Arabic saif, Indian talwar, Persian shamshir, and Turkish kilij and yatagan, among others.

The word “scimitar”, known in English since 1548, derived from Medieval French cimeterre (15c.) or directly from Italian scimitarra, of unknown origin.

A possible origin of ‘scimitar’ is from the Persian shim- or shamshir. This, in turn, is said to be derived from Middle Persian “shafsher” meaning; “lion’s claw” (sham = claw, shir = lion), in reference to the sword’s curve. However, this is likely a folk etymology, as the word is already attested in Middle persian with the meaning “sword”.

The following swords are usually called scimitars:

In the form of the khopesh, the scimitar started playing a sometimes significant role in Middle Eastern warfare more than two millennia before the advent of Islam. Egyptologist Zahi Hawass asserts that the Egyptians of the 18th Dynasty (circa 1600 B.C.) used new weapons technologies borrowed from the Hyksos, including “the scimitar” as important tools in fostering Egypt’s regional domination which characterized much of the New Kingdom period (p 21-22). Some might judge Hawass’ use of the term anachronistic but nonetheless this provides evidence for the use of something akin to the scimitar well before the development of the Persian shamshir.

Many Islamic traditions adopted scimitars, as attested by their symbolic occurrence, e.g. on the Coat of arms of Saudi Arabia.

In fiction, warriors of Middle Eastern cultures often use scimitars, for example the character Yellow Robe in Journey to the West. In the film The 13th Warrior, Antonio Banderas’ character Ahmad ibn Fadlan makes a scimitar after finding the Viking swords too heavy. Also, it has become a stereotype that seafaring pirates favored this type of sword, as seen in numerous stories, television shows and movies.

Scimitars are also commonly used when the inclusion of a fairly exotic weapon is desired by authors of fantasy fiction and role-playing games. The Calormen warriors and royalty fight with scimitars in C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, as does Prince Borric, the main character in Raymond E. Feist’s Prince of the Blood. Fantasy author R.A. Salvatore’s dark elf protagonist Drizzt Do’Urden wields a pair of enchanted scimitars named Icingdeath and Twinkle (the blades are slightly curved). In J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, most Orcs wield scimitars. Also, in the Redwall series, the vermins’ typical weapon is the scimitar. Scimitars are also a weapon in RuneScape, an online video game, and can be bought in a shop located in an Arabian styled area. In the games of Prince of Persia, the player’s/prince’s blade is a scimitar. In Diablo II, a scimitar is an early weapon, promoting fast attack speed and low damage.

Additionally, the scimitar has been a fairly popular namesake employed by comic book and science fiction writers. A wrestler, a minor Marvel Comics villain, and space craft in the Star Trek, Star Wars, and Wing Commander universes have all been named after the scimitar.

Jafat also uses a Scimitar in the “Hadrabubdla – Ashti’s quest” comics.

The scimitar was also used in Arabia at gladiatorial combat events similar to those of the Roman tradition.

In Vagrant Story, the main character Ashley Riot begins with a scimitar called “Fandango”.

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A patu is a short-handled Maori club made of bone, green stone or wood.

There are three types of patu: mere, meremere, and kotiate.

Patu is also a genus of spiders in the family Symphytognathidae, which occurs in Colombia and Oceania.

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A mere (pronounced like “mehreh”) is a traditional weapon of the Maori of New Zealand.

Made of a heavy hardwood or a stone, such as jade, it is a short club about 30 cm (12 inches) in length. It has two almost flat sides and a rounded, sharpened top. A mere pounamu is one of “greenstone” (jade)—these were symbols of chieftainship and passed down as valuable heirlooms. Traditionally individual mere are named, and each is said to possess a mana of its own.

In use they were used for stabbing and thrusting rather than for axe-like blows.

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The parrying dagger is a category of small hand-held weapons from the European late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. These weapons were used as off-hand weapons in conjunction with a single-handed sword. As the name implies they were designed to parry, or defend, more effectively than a simple dagger form, typically incorporating a wider guard, and often some other defensive features to better protect the hand, as well. The main-gauche (French for “left hand”; IPA: [m?˜ go??]) is used mainly to assist in parrying incoming thrusts, while the dominant hand wields a rapier or similar longer weapon intended for one-handed use. It may also be used for attack if an opportunity arises. The general category includes two more specific kinds of weapon: sword breakers and trident daggers[1].

The sword-breaker was a very sturdy dagger that had slots on one side much like the teeth of a comb. The teeth could catch the blade of the opponent’s sword and hold it fast, allowing a variety of follow-up techniques. It is uncertain whether “sword breakers” could, in fact, break sword blades as suggested by some scholars,[2] as swords of this era were intended to stand up to substantial forces, well in excess of what could be generated by a fighter’s off-hand. Swords are sometimes depicted in fechtbuchs as withstanding a two-handed attempt to break them (or show off their resilience).[3] Late Renaissance rapiers and smallswords may not be as robust as the cutting swords of earlier times, however, and have indeed been known to break on occasion, so the claim may have more veracity in relation to the typical civilian weapons of this period.

Trident daggers are built so that a portion of the blade on each side will spring outwards. This creates a dagger capable of trapping blades more securely and more easily.[4]

The use of an off-hand weapon gradually fell out of favor as sword fighting evolved into the modern sport of fencing. The use of progressively lighter primary weapons such as the small sword, épée, and foil allowed for greater speed. Under these circumstances the use of just a primary weapon offered improvements in balance as well as a stance that offered a smaller target.

An off-hand weapon is rarely used in modern sport competition; in fact, the use of the off hand as a defensive measure is often prohibited by the rules of many sport fighting styles that are common in the Western world today. One exception is kendo where the use of two shinai of different size is allowed but uncommon; this style is known as nito-wada. Several other fighting styles not only incorporate but even promote off hand weapons, for example the Filipino style eskrima. Simultaneous use of two weapons is also frequently featured in fiction, particularly in video games, literature and other media from the fantasy genre, where it is commonly dubbed “dual wield”. The Society for Creative Anachronism terms heavy weapon fighting with two weapons, usually two swords, as “Florentine style.”

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Kujang is a typical weapon that originates from the Sundanese region called West Java, Indonesia.

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A Hungarian (or Hungarian-style) shield was a specific form of targe, a type of shield. It was rectangular at the bottom, but the upper edge swept upward forming a curve. The elongated upper edge was designed to protect the head and neck against sabre cuts. They were characteristic for the Hungarian light cavalry. During the 16th century, the design became popular across much of eastern Europe, among both Christian and Muslim horsemen.

Up to the 15th century, the type was in use in Germany as well as in Hungary. The 15th century German Gladiatoria fechtbuch depicts what it calls “ungrischer schilt” used by two fencers on foot. The upward sweeping edge is less pronounced than a point attached to the lower edge, apparently for offensive use, similar to a pata.

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