Where was martial arts first originated?

Answer 1

This is a question that has been a mystery and unanswered accurately since it was asked.

Some say India, some say Africa, others say China. I peronally beleive it came from the oldest known civilizations of ancient times so that would place it in the classical Greek/Egyptian times. SO that region is of course between Africa and India the majority of ancient cultures before the Roman times.

So I would say the MA originated there in hand to hand combat.

Again no one knows 100% for sure the true origins, their is only speculation and educational guesses. Mine is that region.

It started in the Africa/India region and migrated north east towards Tibet and China and eventually to Japan.

Answer 2

ProMagnon Man vs Neanderthal over some dumb big tusked Musk Oxen, they beat the crap outa each other. Called Caveman has a club do and a foe who wants moe. Man refuses to accept defeat. So from this concept we learn to woop each other, and thus progresses Martial Arts.
Some simply spread more than others. But there is no exact resource for the first Martial Art or Arts.
Each system will claim roots here or there, and as none of us were there, whose right. Shaolin who has a competitor called Rome that dates further back and has Greco and Gladitorial skills that who knows where all came from. Then you have Greece and well need I say. Then India and the story of Bohidharma, but this was not that long ago compared to Rome or Egypt. Ch'n has a past that is not exactly recorded either. Then you have Germania and that area had well Sambo for an example.

Answer 3

Wushu, China
Taekwon-Do, Korea
Kickboxing, USA
Russian Martial Arts, Brazil
Karate, Japan

Answer 4

Hi there

There are different views on this subject but for most people the answer is India and a chap called burhidarma who created a form of breathing exercises who then went to china and established a style of kung fu.

This is only one line though. There are other countries that have their own independent fighting arts that come from military backgrounds such as the samurai and the medieval knights of Europe.

So it depends on the origin of art vs military practises. The two routes are different and not to be confused with one another. That's why you will not find any large forms practised in any of the military arts.

Best wishes

idai

Answer 5

The martial arts originated in ancient times in East Asia, but because their beginnings are shrouded in myth and legend, it is impossible to establish their exact history. Kung fu, which may have been based on a fighting style from India, is perhaps the oldest martial art. A form of it was practiced in China more than 2,000 years ago. For many centuries, Chinese martial arts were practiced solely in China, but in the 14th century, when the island of Okinawa started paying tribute to China, knowledge of the martial arts began to spread. At several times in the 15th century, weapons were banned on Okinawa, and these restrictions stimulated the development of weaponless fighting skills.

Answer 6

It depends on the type of martial arts
Korea has Tae Kwon Do it was originated by farmers trying to defend themselves from the empirial forces in acient times
or
karate from china or japan
ninjitsu from japan
judo from japan
the most erliest was from india it was an ancient martial art the sholin monks developed in ancient time.

Anyway why learn about where it comes from and not learn the art of martial arts for yourself.

Answer 7

Every country in the world that has ever had soldiers has had a native martial art or two, developed by the survivors of wars. There are records from ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, England, Asia, North America, etc.

No one country can claim to be the sole "inventor" of martial arts.

Answer 8

The oldest martial way or art originated in India, a form of wrestling much like Folk Wrestling, called Malla-Yudha. Along with various forms of combat, both armed and unarmed, the Indian people developed artforms recorded in various Vedas of Hinduism, dating before 2000 BC. Buddhism is largely credited with the spread of martial arts as it spread across the Chinese continent, beginning in India near the Nepalese border.

Answer 9

The martial arts originated in ancient times in East Asia, but because their beginnings are shrouded in myth and legend, it is impossible to establish their exact history. Kung fu, which may have been based on a fighting style from India, is perhaps the oldest martial art. A form of it was practiced in China more than 2,000 years ago. For many centuries, Chinese martial arts were practiced solely in China, but in the 14th century, when the island of Okinawa started paying tribute to China, knowledge of the martial arts began to spread. At several times in the 15th century, weapons were banned on Okinawa, and these restrictions stimulated the development of weaponless fighting skills.

In the 1600s, Okinawa was threatened by Japanese military attacks, and resistance fighters developed the fighting style called te, which eventually became karate. Separate martial arts also developed in Japan over the years. The modern form of sumo emerged in the late 1500s, although an ancient form of it had been practiced as early as 23 bc. In the late 1500s jujutsu was first practiced. Kano Jigoro founded judo in 1882. Okinawa fell under Japanese control in 1879, and Funakoshi Gichin took karate to Japan in 1922. He later dispatched instructors throughout the world. The martial arts first appeared in the United States in the 1840s, when Chinese immigrant laborers arrived with their knowledge of kung fu. One hundred years later, judo, kendo, and karate had reached the United States, and interest in these martial arts and in others accelerated rapidly. In 20th-century Europe, the martial arts spread quickly as well, as Asian masters traveled and shared their knowledge.

Answer 10

The Lama monks of Tibet developed the art of meditation through movement. They would perform what we know as "kata," forms based upon symbols found in the Sanksrit Sutras, with the intent to reach their highest state of spiritual awareness. They taught this system to the Shaolin monks, who were not as respected as the Lamas, and who further developed the art into a defensive fighting technique. Shaolin style Kung Fu and Tai Chi were the first of the most traditional of all martial arts.