Do anybody know about , where the first martial art originated ?

Answer 1

Pankration is the world oldest known fighting style it dates back to almost 500bc. Probably older....

Although alot of the main arts in China came from India. There is no proof or time slots showing how far back Indian arts go.
For example Shaolin was brought to China in about 500AD.
That's 1000 years before so is it fair to say that the art or others did not exist in India in 500 bc or ealier, no it's not but unfortunatly the history books only show the dates for Pankration.

Answer 2

Martial arts originated the first time a humanoid hit another. Every culture has developed its own forms of combat and fighting.

Legends in the oriental martial arts talk about the origins with the Budidahrma bringing the martial arts of India into China and teaching the monks there. But even then, they were merged with the already existing skills that were used to fight in that area.

Answer 3

Every culture has some form of martial art , the oldest records of any specific training would be from Africa . Not Japan, China, India, or Greece. The oldest records of any formalized martial arts come from the cradle of humanity itself , Egypt .
It is believed that other cultures from Africa also had martial arts systems , but none have been recorded .
As humanity spread accross the world so did the usage of martial arts . Some where created , others were adaptations on earlier arts .

Answer 4

I agree with Judoka, the oldest recorded martial art is Pancrase. As far a oriental martial arts, there is a debate between India and korea. While india is widely accepted as the birthplace of Martial Arts with Bodidharma new archaeological investigations suggest that some forms of korean foot fighting practiced by the ancient inhabitants of the korean Peninsua predate Bodidharma by as much as 300 years.

Answer 5

Every culture has had some way shape or form of formalized combat training, so whoever came up with it first is up to anybody's guess. However, I believe that the oldest documented martial art is Kalaripayattu, which originiated in India.

Answer 6

martial art was first originated in India by a priest. later the priest travel to china and teach his martial to the monk so they have a better health and he also spread Buddhist teaching. from that time on there is shoaling temple. later martial was spread all over the world.

Answer 7

Formal ritualised Eastern style martial arts started in the Indian Himalayas and was slowly spread by Buddhist monks into China and beyond.

Answer 8

Several people fought each other over time, long, long ago.

*The winners taught their techniques to those people who were important to them (i.e., family/clan members, soldiers, etc.).

*These techniques became refined over time within the geographic region they were practiced, influenced by climatic/physiological/religious, and political events.

Each region of the world really does have a martial art associated with it, and many (but not all) of them really did originate from their cultures' equivalent of "Og" the caveman.

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Really informative and cool stuff there.

Have A Nice Day.

Answer 9

China. Were the whole Asian civilization started along the Yellow River 4,000 years ago. (That's when the civ. started, not when Martial Arts started. But it has been around a long time.)

Read Chinese history on Wikipedia.

Karate come from heart, Daniel Son.

Answer 10

the oldest form of martial art that i know of was introduced by Buddha that he brought from India when he moved to China.tko