India has many ancient sports, such as chess, playing cards and martial arts. Chess originated in ancient India and was known as Chatur-Anga – meaning four limbs. The popular game of cards originated in ancient India and was known as Krida-patram. It was one of the favorite pastimes of Indians in ancient times.
Ancient India claims to have been the origin of judo and karate. Kalaripayate, a martial art form in India, is similar to karate. Those who practice it have to develop acrobatic capabilities, when using swords or knives to attack their adversaries, and even an unarmed exponent who can be a force to reckon with. The violent nature of Kalaripayate is evident from the daggers and knives that were used. Unlike Kalaripayate, judo and karate do not allow the use of lethal weapons. Early martial arts find mention in Vedic literature and in the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. In Mahabhata, Arjun and Karan had a battle between each other using fists, bows and swords. Boxing fights are also described in Ramayana.
With the advent of Buddhism, this art form was spread to the Far East by the monks. Such a technique of self-defense would have been necessary for Buddhist monks as they traveled individually or in small groups in foreign lands during which they were exposed to dangers from bandits and fanatics from other religions. Buddhist monks seem to have tempered the originally violent character of this art.
The aim of a Karate practitioner is mainly to disarm and disable his opponent without mortally wounding him. This can be looked upon as a reflection of the Buddhist attitude towards life. Further both judo and karate are deeply interwoven with meditation unlike other martial arts like boxing, wrestling, and fencing. The concentration aspect in judo and karate perhaps stems from this. Both Judo and Karate are sought to be kept as arts to be used only for purposes of protection of the weak
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Do you think martial arts influence a child to be violent? Any personal experiences?My son would like to take karate classes. However, other people in my family think it may influence him to become more violent. My son is not a particularly violent child so it is not that my family is just worried about him being violent, they just feel that it is not the best activity to get your child involved in. What do you think on the matter? Does martial arts just encourage violence and does not promote self discipline like they say?
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The oldest combat fighting system known to man is Pankration. A greek wrestling style with history and fact based proof dating back to 500 BC. Martial arts were not brought to the far east from India unit 500 AD. There is some theory about when the origional arts were created in India. But other than some stories that really are not dated there is no evidence of a date or how it started.
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Unfortunately no. At least not yet. I've heard talk about the possibility in Massachusetts within the next year or two but currently there are none listed.
Yes, India has several martial arts. In Kung-fu legend, the first person to introduce Kung-fu to the Shaolin monks was Indian. So, they definetly have some.
The ones most associated with India (in my opinion) are: Pehlwani & Kalaripayattu.
Pehlwani is a type of folk wrestling. It is done in a dirt pit. It is similar to freestyle wrestling.
This a short 1:47 clip of pehlwani and explains it some too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDHybRQ2tdU
Kalaripayattu is more a martial art. It has jumping kicks and demonstrates a high degree of flexibility. It apparently has weapons with it as well as unarmed techinques too.
Here is a 1:05 clip that demonstrates the unarmed part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya_cEoXvasA
There are also other martial arts associated with India that you can do some independent research on. But, Pehlwani & Kalaripayattu are probably the two most that will come up as Indian martial arts that are the most popular (the ones that are popular that are native to India specifically).
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The only way I know of that someone from India could get a visa to the US is through, quota work visas in fields such as medicine where the US doesn't have enough nurses, petition from family members already in the US legally, or through a K-1 or Spousal visa. Tourist visas are tough to come by unless they can prove that they will not skip out once they are in the US. That isn't easy to prove. The only other visa that I am aware of is the investor visa, and that requires a hefty deposit in a US bank account.
Kung fu is older then that and hand more infulances. Including the middle east and a few other aisian countries
India was influanced by africa about 5000 years ago.
Then you also have europeon martial arts as well.
Many countries trained martial art techniques woth each and influanced eachother. Most people only look at the surface of the history and consider the major inflance and not all the minor ones. Karate is an excellent example it was influanced by at least 10 countries. But people only consider china as influance
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A cursory search of Kuttu Varisai federations reveals them to be universally located in India, and a search of the California yellow pages (California being the U.S. state with the most Indian immigrants) turns up no results for "Kuttu Varisai".
You seem to be out of luck on this one.
kalaripayattu
how dare i: The martial arts originally came from India. Karate was invented in India and taken to China by an Indian Buddhist monk. The other martial arts evolved from this.