What fighting style emphasizes using ALL of you body as a weapon?

Question

i saw it on the Military channel when they were doing a documentary on the US Army Rangers. I know it wasn't the Army combatives (I have studied this) but it was taugh by some guy whose last name was Mayo.

Answer 1

That's the dominant focus on how we teach taijutsu within the Bujinkan.

Everything we do is done with the full body frame working in unison....and all parts of the body are used for various tasks.

Those tasks can pertain to striking, evading, using a tool or weapon, etc.

Taijutsu in nihongo to english transliteration means : body skill.

Taisabaki in the same format means : body movement.

Anyhow, the long and short of it is this......we don't place too much focus on any one point of the body. For example : if you step into a punching attack across it's angle of entry; if you're farther away you can counter with a fist or elbow, etc. If you're much closer, you can use the shoulder or head instead.

The important part of that whole thing is this : the feet moved, which in turn moved the hips and spine, which through the whole body as a single unit moves.

I've been a student of the combat arts for 22 years now, and I've never seen another martial system have a true full body usage like ours does....and it's really something one has to experience through training. Quite a bit of what we do the eye alone doesn't catch too well.

It's actually much harder to describe this in words than I thought it would be, if you are interested in more information feel free to message me.

Answer 2

The International Style Emphasizes

Answer 3

Most styles do.
Here are some very good ones.
Kajukenbo
Muay Thai
CHA 3 Kenpo
Jeet Kune Do (if actually taught by a student of Dan Inosanto)
Danzan Ryu Jujitsu
Shorin Ryu Karate

Answer 4

A fighting style that includes the nose as a weapon doesn't exist as far as I know but any kind of thing that can be construed as resembling or being applicable in unarmed fighting and meant to be used by humans that aren't missing any mechanically relevant body parts definitely involves the entire human body.

Answer 5

I studied in Japan and learnt the absolute best defending skills a person can learn. More than 200 to be more specific. The cold hard facts is 21 basic moves will pretect you in there mentality. I studied for a few months with the Chinese before departing abrubtly under strange circumstances. What I learnt was once again was defense BUT with an elaborates on countering the attack. While I was in Israel I learnt more about attacking a man with very little and surviving then anywhere before. The israelis have hand to hand combat down to life more than any others.

Answer 6

Every martial art that I have seen DOES use ALL of the body as a weapon. Only that they differ in the choice of selecting the body parts to be used as weapon at any given moment.

The Chinese have gone farther and made a sword that is an extension of the mind. The sword is as sharp as a mind can get and as pointed and focussed as the artist's mind that is weilding the body.

On the other side, Katara, the Samurai sword is an extension of the body.

A battle between the Chinese sword and the Japanese sword is a classic one. Both are equally posied for a victory in a mortal combat. But somehow the Katara has become a legend much larger than the Chinese sword.

But if you press for it, I'd vote for the Brazilian martial art. It looks non-lethal, flamboyant and non-hostile. All these delusions break with a shock only when you are in the range of the artist. And all the time, the artist is in a serene dance using their head, arms, torso, legs, you name it.

Answer 7

It is based on certain aspects culturally associated with the animals; not with how the move is necessarily performed. Of course some fit fairly well as the wing block from the White Crane style or the finger strikes to pressure points of the Snake style. It is helpful to have a feel for the culture and the way of the people where an art developed. In that context it is easier to understand the concepts of the various animal references. Certainly unlike the movies you don't need to be drunk off your aXX to do the Drunken style, it is just a way of explaining how loose you need to be to perform the moves.

Answer 8

Bokator, the martial art of ancient Cambodia.

Bokator fighters, known as yuthkhun, train in a wide variety of styles, each based on the fighting motions of a particular animal. Monkey, lion, elephant, crocodile, crab, horse, bird and dragon are only a few of the hundreds of different fighting styles. Instead of belts, Bokator uses colored kramas, or scarves to indicate the fighter’s level. In Bokator, any part of the body can be used as a weapon, including fingers, hips, jaws and shoulders. Techniques in Bokator include strikes, throws, trapping, locking, grappling and ground-fighting, as well as sword and stick maneuvers.

Answer 9

With a few exceptions, every unarmed style will teach you how to use your whole body as a weapon. Karate does not teach you just using your hands, TKD does not teach you just using your feet, Muay Thai does not teach you just using knees.

Pick an art that doesn't focus on grappling (Judo, wrestling, aikido) and it will most likely teach you ways to fight with all your body. However every art comes with an ideal or philosiphy or attitude to a fight. In TKD that attitude is "Legs have more power and a longer range so use them the most." while most karate styles will say "You're better grounded and using your upper body will work best." But both will still teach you to use your hands and feet and elbows and knees and head and if you really want to, you can even use your ears.

Answer 10

Classical Okinawan Martial Arts.