Is there a Vietnamese martial art?

Question

How effective is it in actual combat? Does it have any other benefits (as in, is it used for meditation or health)?

If you can't think of any, do you know any martial art that may have been practiced in ancient Vietnam and established roots?

Answer 1

To start off Ray, Kung Fu is not a style it litterally means Martial Art in english. It is the Chinese words used to say martial art. So we say what art do you train in they say what Kung Fu do you train in. If you say you train in Kung Fu that makes no sense.... You would have to train in an actual Chinese art like Shaolin Quan or Praying Mantis
Kung Fu or foo is an Americanized term used my many fraudulant dojos because they think it sounds better than Karate.

Ok now the link below lists the arts that are from vietnam and gives info and history on them. Scroll down the list to Vietnam click on each art to see the info

Vietnamese Martial Arts (Võ Thuật Việt Nam)
Cuong Nhu
Tu-Thân
Viet Vo Dao/ Việt Võ Đạo (越武道)
Qwan Ki Do (Quan Khi Dao)
Vovinam
Vo Dao Vietnam

Additional: Anpadh, Kung Fu properly pronounced Gongfu is Manderin and WuShu is Cantanese both mean the exact same thing but different dialects.

NOUN:
Any of various Chinese martial arts, especially those forms in which sharp blows and kicks are applied to pressure points on the body of an opponent.
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ETYMOLOGY:
Chinese (Mandarin) gongfu, skill, art : gong- worker, work + fu- man, laborer

Answer 2

Judoka, actually, Kung Fu (also spelled gongfu) is a word that simply means "training the body and/or mind" not necessarily in martial arts. You are right in saying, however, that the term Kung Fu refers to the whole range of Chinese martial arts (as does the term wushu). Originally, however, the term Kung Fu referred specifically to the type of physical and mental training given to students at the famous Xiaolin (Shaolin) temple. That training included martial arts but martial arts was not the main focus of the training, even though many famous warriors may have trained there, over the years.

Every country in which Buddhism is an important part of the culture will have its own form of martial arts and/or Kung Fu as both were originally taught to and by Buddhist monks in China, India, and other places in Asia.

For a partial list of Vietnamese martial arts styles, see this link: http://www.google.com/search?q=vietnamese+kung+fu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Answer 3

Yes Vietnam does have a martial art. Its actually a derivative style of kung fu . There may be other arts as well .

Answer 4

hell naw I tried that before that stuff was bull **** try japanese or chinese martial arts

Answer 5

probably, just not as well known, most of them have something

Answer 6

no. there isnt.