Just to let you know(and chances are you've prolly already learned this by now, but if not, here's some head's up)
Pankration, is the Greek National Martial Arts style; dating back to the time of the Spartans and well before that. Greco-Roman Wrestling is derived from the grappling techniques and submission techniques of Pankration, taking out the striking, kicking and weapons training.
The Phillipines has Arnis de Mano,Kali/Escrima and several other folk styles. there is little to suggest that there is any relation to kungfu or that they are remotely related.
Thailand has Muay Thai, Muay Boran, Krabi Krabong(which are similar to Silat and Banshay), Muay Luang, etc., etc.
Sambo is a mixed martial arts, but is more akin to Aikido/Aikijutsu, Jujitsu/Judo, Greco-Roman Wrestling and kickboxing, but not Muay Thai in any shape or form.
Taekwondo in its modern form doesn't quite exist yet, at this period in time, and if anything, the Korean fighter used either hwarangdo, or taegyuk. Modern Taekwondo, didn't truly achieve its completeness, till about the late 40s to 50s.
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Maegnas
17 years ago
celestialphoenixreborn wrote:
Pankration, is the Greek National Martial Arts style; dating back to the time of the Spartans and well before that. Greco-Roman Wrestling is derived from the grappling techniques and submission techniques of Pankration, taking out the striking, kicking and weapons training.
Actually pankration can be described as the ancient kick-boxing. An Olympic sport in ancient times it was notorious for its brutality. Often contestants ended fights with broken limbs or even dead! Eyes were off limits as were genitals (I think, not so sure about this one) but "dirty" techniques involving use of fingernails in scraping skin (or even underneath the skin!) were not seldom. Pankration, if used fully and correctly, can be a devastating martial "art" as it is, in a word, deadly. The guy in the movie fights Greco-Roman (pale) style as he clearly tries to 'catch' the opponent in ways that would give him an advantage to a drop (in Greco-Roman if an athlete's shoulders both touch the ground he loses - that's a ptose), a mistake given that his Mongolian opponent was out of his league for such a manipulation!
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