Journal articles: 'Martial art and self defense'

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Khyavi, Masoud Hayeri, and Maziar Abdollahinya. "Infants’ Defense Method (INDEM)." Journal of Combat Sports and Martial Arts 2, no. 8 (December 29, 2017): 135–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.8723.

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During our childhood, even early after being borne, we have innate features for self-defense instinctively which are barely noticed. On the other hand, nowadays, martial arts and self-defense practices are being steadily educated as a popular form of training. These approaches can end up with consequences in real combats. The purpose of the present paper is to introduce a new training concept by considering very basic and instinctive defensive movements exhibited by a human since his/her birth and develop and follow these features for self-defense in adolescence. This new concept will indicate that some martial arts (i.e. martial skills – different from common interpretation of a martial art) have been with us since our birth. Here we will demonstrate that even a cutie infant can provide us with noble self-defense ideas.

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Mopangga, Syamsudin, Hartono Hadjarati, and Suprianto Kadir. "TRADITIONAL MATRIAL ART OF LANGGA." Jambura Journal of Sports Coaching 2, no. 1 (April 9, 2020): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.37311/jjsc.v2i1.5629.

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This study aims to analyze Langga as traditional martial arts of the Bone Bolango community. This research is a survey research. The research subjects were Langga teachers, and the surrounding community. Data collection techniques are done using interview techniques by asking questions. The results of this study are that Langga Self-Defense is a typical silat of the Bone Bolango community which was inherited by the ancestors of Bone Bolango who is also a martial art for maintaining security in the territory of the Bone Bolango kingdom. The conclusion is that Langga martial arts is a tradition of the Bone Bolango community. The existence of Langga martial arts had existed in the 1960s which at that time was played by Temeapusa and Syahrul Panipi. In 1993 until now Langga's martial arts began to be rarely played again especially in welcoming the big days.

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Kwak, Jeong-Hyeon. "Analysis of Self-defense Martial Art and Self-defense Recognition through Text Mining and Role Search." Journal of Martial Arts 14, no. 3 (August 31, 2020): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.51223/kosoma.2020.08.14.3.67.

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Lee, Sehwan, and Yunho Shin. "Access to Security MARTIAL ART by Training Self-Defense of Hapkido in KOREA." J-Institute 1, no. 1 (June 30, 2016): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22471/martialarts.2016.1.1.11.

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Zheleznova, N. E. "INFLUENCE OF MUAY THAI ON FORMATION OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE." Education and Science without Limits: Fundamental and Applied Researches, no. 10 (November 25, 2019): 287–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36683/2500-249x-2019-10-287-290.

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For a long time oriental martial art, including muay thai (Thai boxing), were considered only as dangerous kinds of sports, main mission of which is self-defence. Certainly, it is one of the main aspects of any fighting art, and muay thai is, first of all a kind of martial art. At the same time, it is necessary to underline, that increasing popularity of healthy lifestyle has made muay thai more mass kind of sport. Now strengthening of health and self-estimation increase becomes one of the reasons inducing people to be engaged in this kind of sports, besides martial art, as well as simply keeping the body in physical form.

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Moyna, Patrick, and Horacio Heinzen. "Improving self-defense in plants. Martial arts for vegetables." Pure and Applied Chemistry 73, no. 8 (August 1, 2001): 1325–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac200173081325.

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From the dawn of agriculture there has been an ever-intensifying human effort to improve yields by having crops with enhanced biological similarity (i.e., characteristics of product, maturation time, height, color, etc.). The ultimate stage is to plant a crop where all individuals behave in exactly the same way, being clones of each other. This very intensive approach leads to loss of intrapopulation biodiversity and to unstable systems, prone to disastrous losses should anything go wrong.Biological evolutionary success is usually derived from high adaptability to ever-changing external conditions. Highly specialized plants (such as certain orchids) or animals survive by correctly performing a high-wire act of enormous risk. External disbalances have catastrophic results on these species. Nature excels and corrects imbalances increased biodiversity within natural populations. Given this situation, we should study the defensive systems used by plants and improve on those natural systems.

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Rouse, Wendy, and Beth Slutsky. "Empowering the Physical and Political Self: Women and the Practice of Self-Defense, 1890–1920." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 13, no. 4 (October 2014): 470–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781414000383.

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First-wave feminists in the Progressive Era found ways to make the political physical by empowering their bodies. As the women's suffrage movement gained momentum, advocates for women's self-defense training in England and in the United States insisted that all women were physically capable of defending themselves and should learn self-defense not only to protect themselves physically but to empower themselves psychologically and politically for the battles they would face in both the public and private spheres. Militant suffragettes used their bodies to convey discontent and resist oppression through marches, pickets, and hunger strikes. Yet, and perhaps more importantly, even average women, with no direct association with suffrage organizations, expressed a newfound sense of empowerment through physical training in boxing, wrestling, and jiu-jitsu.1This paper considers the ways in which women during the first wave of feminism empowered their bodies to fight assault, sexism, and disfranchisement through their training in the “manly art” of self-defense. Although not all women who embraced physical training and martial arts had explicit or implicit political motives, women's self-defense figuratively and literally challenged the power structure that prevented them from exercising their full rights as citizens and human beings.

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Judkins, Benjamin N. "A Lost Fight Book: Alfred Lister and the Noble Art of Self-Defence in China." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8, no. 1 (October 15, 2020): 229–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/apd-2020-013.

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In 1874 an anonymous author published a partial English language translation and discussion of a now lost Southern Chinese martial arts manual originally titled Tearing Down Techniques of Hero Boxing. This was a critical period in the development of the modern Chinese martial arts. Many of the best known Southern Chinese fighting systems (Hung Gar, Choy Li Fut, Wing Chun, White Crane, etc.) were just starting to assume a recognisable form. Yet it is also a poorly understood era. Just as importantly, it was during the mid- and late nineteenth century that Western soldiers, administrators and adventurers first began to encounter and describe the Chinese martial arts. For better or worse, their records would help shape the perception of China in the popular imagination. This chapter begins by identifying Alfred Lister, a civil servant in Hong Kong, as the previously unknown author of this English language work. It then attempts to reconstruct the structure and contents of the now lost fight book which he encountered. Lastly it investigates the consequences of the misreading of this text.

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Zhu, Kun Xue. "Study on Martial Arts Teaching System Reform Based on ICT Method." Applied Mechanics and Materials 380-384 (August 2013): 2099–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.380-384.2099.

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with the implementation of new teaching reform, universities begin to reform the teaching mode. Sports has also been included in the reform on important curriculum system. Martial art courses have many functions which are welcomed by students, such as, self-defense, physical fitness and so on. But according to the investigation that martial arts curriculum resources are limited, many students cant successfully choose it. Even if students have selected, the teaching effect is not good due to the large number of students. In order to realize the teaching goal of students as the main body, students emotion as the main line, the paper relies on the latest information technology ICT method to study the reform of Martial Arts teaching system, and based on the ICT network integrated information service, it has made experimental verification on the system integration and equipment leasing of Martial Arts teaching system. On the basis of the requirement in "sports and healthy curriculum standard", it has made the teaching goal for students mastering certain difficulty training routines and the mutual practice, which achieves the comprehensive reform of Martial Arts teaching system, and provides a theoretical reference for the study of sports teaching new reform scheme.

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Nguyen, Tuong Thanh, Van-Hung Le, Duy-Long Duong, Thanh-Cong Pham, and Dung Le. "3D Human Pose Estimation in Vietnamese Traditional Martial Art Videos." Journal of Advanced Engineering and Computation 3, no. 3 (September 30, 2019): 471. http://dx.doi.org/10.25073/jaec.201933.252.

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Preserving, maintaining and teaching traditional martial arts are very important activities in social life. That helps preserve national culture, exercise and self-defense for practitioners. However, traditional martial arts have many different postures and activities of the body and body parts are diverse. The problem of estimating the actions of the human body still has many challenges, such as accuracy, obscurity, etc. In this paper, we survey several strong studies in the recent years for 3-D human pose estimation. Statistical tables have been compiled for years, typical results of these studies on the Human 3.6m dataset have been summarized. We also present a comparative study for 3-D human pose estimation based on the method that uses a single image. This study based on the methods that use the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for 2-D pose estimation, and then using 3-D pose library for mapping the 2-D results into the 3-D space. The CNNs model is trained on the benchmark datasets as MSCOCO Keypoints Challenge dataset [1], Human 3.6m [2], MPII dataset [3], LSP [4], [5], etc. We final publish the dataset of Vietnamese's traditional martial arts in Binh Dinh province for evaluating the 3-D human pose estimation. Quantitative results are presented and evaluated.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.

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TĂTARU, I. T. "BASIC ARM TECHNIQUES IN QWAN KI DO." Series IX Sciences of Human Kinetics 14(63), no. 1 (June 10, 2021): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.shk.2021.14.63.1.13.

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Martial arts designate a group of disciplines based on combat techniques, practiced worldwide for sports, self-defence, and improving physical and mental fitness. Qwan Ki Do is a complex Vietnamese martial art that responds to the needs of spiritual and physical development through several forms of manifestation, such as: Song Dao (fighting techniques with one or multiple opponents), Thao Quyen (sequences of fighting techniques individual execution), Co Vo Dao (sequences of fighting techniques with the help of traditional weapons, performed individually or with a partner), Tam The (psychobody gymnastics). This study focuses on the presentation and illustration of the most used arm techniques in the Qwan Ki Do method. The benefits of practicing the martial art Qwan Ki Do are analysed at the end of the study.

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Ratno, Puji, Zen Fadli, and Irwansyah Irwansyah. "SPORT ACCOMPANIMENT OF SELF DEFENSE PENCAK SILAT BANJAR RAGA INSANI CLUB AT ARA PAYUNG VILLAGE." Journal of Community Research and Service 3, no. 1 (August 27, 2019): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/jcrs.v3i1.14427.

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This community service activity is one form of the implementation of the Tri Dharma of Higher Education. This activity was carried out in order to help preserve the pencak silat banjar culture which is in the Village of Ara Payung. The main problem faced by partners is that in carrying out the training of pencak silat trainers, they do not yet have the ability to prepare training programs, variations in the practice of pencak silat in the art of motion are not many. And the lack of training facilities that exist in supporting a good training process, and supporting facilities. The output targets in this activity are: Trainers are able to make a good and correct training program in accordance with the rules of coaching. Availability of standard martial arts training facilities in accordance with the provisions. The method used to achieve the objectives of this activity is. Coaching clinic for the preparation of training programs for pencak silat coach, and mentoring for banjar pencak silat training. This service activity has resulted in an exercise program that is used in training at tha club, the trainer is able to arrange an exercise program that can be applied in training, increasing the variety of training in the Pencak Silat Raga Insani club. With the training and mentoring activities, the enthusiasm of the teenagers in the village of Ara Payung was higher in participating in the martial arts training in his village.Keywords: Instrument, Talent, Karate.

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Sanchez, Domenic T., and Rafael D. Sanchez. "The Embodiment of an Authentic Filipino Art of Self-Preservation and Well-being." Alinteri Journal of Agriculture Sciences 36, no. 2 (July 15, 2021): 115–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.47059/alinteri/v36i2/ajas21123.

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The study highlights the cultural and historical significance of arnis or eskrima, the indigenous art of self-preservation developed by the early Filipino natives. As a form of self-defense, arnis or eskrima is deemed to have evolved in the Philippines during the pre-colonial period through ingenuity, multi-cultural interaction, and friendship between them and Asian traders. Arnis is a graceful yet exquisite hand-to-hand and armed routine intended for combat with a peculiar history linked to rebellion and struggles among commoners who sought freedom from the reigning colonizers. It is interesting to report that the symbolic authentic Filipino martial art (F.M.A.), which has been passed on through generations, had eventually reached the pedestal of recognition as a national sport, art, and culture of the Philippines under the Republic Act 9850. Arnis continues to get popular from the local to the international arena, where Filipino grandmasters, masters, and practitioners conduct seminar training and promotional tournaments to brush elbows with their counterparts in high regard and camaraderie. As a sport, it contributes to the physical development, well-being, discipline, and character of the players or practitioners from different walks of life. The Filipino people's sense of nationalism, patriotism, and national identity is reflected in arnis, a part of their rich historical and cultural heritage.

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Secours, Kevin R. "Defensas contra derribo en el arte ruso del Systema." Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas 4, no. 1 (July 16, 2012): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/rama.v4i1.227.

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The continuing popularity of mixed martial arts (MMA) events has motivated many martial artists to cross train in grappling disciplines. While largely beneficial for the arts as a whole, many practitioners have nevertheless integrated grappling strategies without considering whether or not their applications are simply sportive or appropriate for self-defense tactics. In this article, I will examine some historical perspectives on the role of grappling on the battlefield from published literature and consider the evidence left to us through historical texts and artwork. Based on over 20 years experience in the grappling arts, I will attempt to show that ground fighting and grappling are necessary components of a complete tactical arsenal, while carefully illustrating the difference in street tactics. I will place specific emphasis on the role of defending the takedown in a modern survival scenario, giving particular attention to the approach employed by the Russian art of Systema.

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Xu, Jian. "Body, Discourse, and the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Chinese Qigong." Journal of Asian Studies 58, no. 4 (November 1999): 961–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2658492.

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Many asian cultures have rich traditions of self-cultivation that exercise mind and body through physical and meditational training. Research and scholarship with respect to those traditions have focused fruitfully on how the body is cultivated to serve as an agent of resistance against various forms of social control. Of these many writings on this subject, I will here name only a suggestive few: Joseph Alter's study of Indian wrestling (1993), for example, tracks the wrestlers' self-conscious reappropriation of their bodies from the power of the state through a regimented discipline aimed at resisting docility. John Donohue's study of the Japanese martial art karate (1993) explores how, in the West, karate's symbolic and ritual functions create a psychological dynamic that counters the prevalent fragmentation of urban life. Douglas Wile's research on Chinese taiji quart (1996) similarly reconstructs the cultural/historical context in which this martial art was created. He shows that what motivated nineteenth-century literati to create taiji quan was its representational function rather than its practical utility. That is, Taiji quan “may be seen as a psychological defense against Western cultural imperialism” (p. 26) insofar as it produced a secure sense of the national self that helped China adapt to a new international environment (p. 29). All of these studies place the body-in-cultivation in a specific historical context; they maintain that the individual, physical body both registers and reveals the national sociopolitical landscape.

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Vinodan, A., and S. Meera. "Exploring the Relevance of Cultural Resource Management: A Case Study of Kalaripayattu." Journal of Heritage Management 3, no. 1 (June 2018): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455929618773388.

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Kalari is the Malayalam (language spoken in Kerala) word for a special kind of gymnasium, where the martial art known as Kalaripayattu is practised based on the idea of a sound mind in the sound body. It is one of the most ancient and comprehensive art form of India rather the world, because it has an excellent system of physical training, effective self-defence techniques, both armed and unarmed, training for excellent flexibility for physical and mental strength and is based on the Dravidian culture of India. Kalaripayattu is considered as the basis for all martial arts. This martial art has been practised on the basis of a scientific system of medicine called Kalarichikilsa ( Kalari-related treatment). This article investigates the potential of cultural heritage resources from a supply and demand perspective, as cultural resource management is the need of the hour to preserve and commercialize cultural and heritage resources. The study reveals that cultural heritage resources like Kalaripayattu could become a unique selling proposition of Indian tourism market, provided these resources are protected, preserved and encouraged through effective promotion strategies in various target markets.

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Beranek, Vaclav, Petr Stastny, Vit Novacek, Petr Votapek, and Josef Formanek. "Upper Limb Strikes Reactive Forces in Mix Martial Art Athletes during Ground and Pound Tactics." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 21 (October 24, 2020): 7782. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217782.

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Athletes of mixed martial arts use a ground and pound strategy with the strikes in the dominant ground position. The aim of this study was to compare the average peak force (Fpeak) among three punches and to estimate the probability of achieving a skull bone fracture force of 5.1 kN for each type of strike in male and female athletes. A total of 60 males and 31 females (26 ± 8 years, 75 ± 20 kg, 177 ± 11 cm) practicing professional self-defense at the advanced and professional levels performed 15 strikes on a force plate. The analyses of 1360 trials showed significant differences among the strikes Fpeak in females (p < 0.01) and males (p < 0.01). Straight punches had lower Fpeak than palm strikes and elbow strikes in both genders, and palm strikes had higher Fpeak than elbow strikes in females. No difference was observed between palm strikes and elbow strikes in males (p = 0.09). The ground and pound strikes resulted in higher impacts than previously reported strikes in the standing position. Male athletes can deliver a Fpeak above 5.1 kN with a probability of 36% with elbow and palm strikes. Such forces can cause head injury; therefore, the use of these strikes in competition should be carefully considered.

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Rahmah, Sitti, Yusnizar Yusnizar, and Tuti Rahayu. "The Study of Moccak Tatak Textual in Pakpak Community." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 4 (November 6, 2020): 3398–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v3i4.1373.

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Tatak Moccak is one of the traditional dances in the Pakpak community which originates from pencak silat or martial arts. Moccak is a term of pencak silat or martial arts which is an element of art that is present in the daily activities of the people. Martial at the beginning of its appearance was closely related to human self-defense against nature. Moccak is adopted from the history of the way of life of the Pakpak people in ancient times who lived in the jungle in a nomadic manner, making humans often encounter wild animals in the forest.This research is an effort to preserve the Tatak Moccak from the Pakpak area through written documentation that discusses in detail the Moccak tatak from a dance point of view. The focus of discussion in this study is the Tatak Moccak in the Pakpak Society analyzed through textual studies. Textual analysis is a method used to obtain and analyze information in academic research. In this case, Moccak's tatak is seen as a text that can be read like a writing. Textual studies in the Moccak style include choreographical, structural, and symbolic studies. Choreography discusses dance movements, movement techniques, movement styles, number of dancers, gender and body posture, space in Moccak's style, time, dance accompaniment music, dramatic analysis, and stage techniques (lighting, make-up, and fashion) . includes the structure of the motion and structure of the presentation of the Moccak layout. Symbolic discusses symbols in movement, costumes, and make-up.

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SERBAN, Diana-Elena, Aurelian ANGHELESCU, Elena CONSTANTIN, and Gelu ONOSE. "Self-defence techniques and procedures, adapted for paraplegic persons independent in wheelchair, to counteract hetero-aggressive behavior." Balneo Research Journal 10, Vol 10 No. 4 (December 10, 2019): 521–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.12680/balneo.2019.291.

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Introduction. Persons living in wheelchair are often target of hetero-aggressive behavior. The aggressors perceive persons in wheelchair as easy victims. Obiectives Acquisition of adapted self-defense techniques and procedures by young paraplegic persons, independed in wheelchair, to counteract some possible hetero-aggressive behavior against them. Material and methods. A young male person, former sportsman (familiarised with wrestling techniques), living with T11 AIS-A (complete) paraplegia after a spinal cord injury and independent in wheelchair, was instructed some various taekwondo techniques and maneuvres: blocking an attack with the hand at the head region (Olgul Jireugi), hand block (Olgul Maki), hand counteratack (Momntong Jireugi), foot attack at the head region (Olgul Dollyo Chagi), hand block (Sonnal Olgul Maki), hand counterattack (Arae Jireugi). The young female who plays the role of attacker has black belt in taekwondo, therefore the maneuvres were performed in total safety, without endangering the pacient. Both protagonists of this presentation have given written consent to be photographed and filmed, for academic purpose. The paper has the approval of the Ethics Committee of “Bagdasar-Arseni” Clinical Emergency Hospital, n.o. 17464/14.06.2019. Results: We realized photographs and films depicting the aforementioned taekwondo techniques, to demonstrate some possible scenarios of aggression. Discussion Acquisition of martial art techniques and procedures by paraplegic people, independent in wheelchair, is essential and may improve their safety, participation, self-esteem and quality of life. Conclusions: Prevention, as a self defense method, is essential. The best way is to avoid conflictual situations, but ideal is to be prepared for any situation. Key words: paraplegia, spinal cord injury seqelae, taekwondo, self defense techniques, participation, quality of life,

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Mohd Rizhan Wan Idris, Wan, Ahmad Rafi, Azman Bidin, and Azrul Amri Jamal. "A theoretical framework of extrinsic feedback based-automated evaluation system for martial arts." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 2.14 (April 6, 2018): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.14.11160.

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Martial arts (MAs) are considered as a preserved heritage primarily due to the fact that it promotes certain level of identities of a culture. MA refers to the art of combat and self-defense which normally combines offensive and defensive techniques. Technology advancements have made motion capture (MoCap) to be widely used in MA to capture and evaluate human performance. Nevertheless, researches on extrinsic feedbacks (EFs) of MA through the developed evaluation system are scarce. Furthermore, there is no complete framework of evaluation system suggested for MA. This paper presents the theoretical framework of EF-based automated evaluation system in the context of traditional local MA. The framework contains three modules including MoCap, recognition and evaluation. The MoCap module tracks human body accurately in order to generate skeleton, tune focused target, and record human movements. Recognition module develops a script of motion for templates and classification purposes using Reverse-Gesture Description Language (R-GDL) and GDL respectively. Evaluation module produces the extrinsic feedback in terms of pattern and score for the performed movements. This theoretical framework will be used in the development of the digital tool to measure the accuracy and effectiveness of motions performed by one of the traditional local MAs.

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Dobrzycki, Adrian. "Organizational affiliation, age and training experience of people who train karate Kyokushin and the rank of the most important professional activities of the coach." Sport i Turystyka. Środkowoeuropejskie Czasopismo Naukowe 3, no. 2 (2020): 59–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/sit.2020.03.13.

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Introduction: The aim of this study was to collect and analyse the opinions of people who train karate Kyokushin regarding the importance (hierarchy) of individual professional activities of the coaches. Material and methods: The research involved 54 practitioners from 25 karate Kyokushin sports clubs in Poland. Respondents were aged 35.0 ±12.0 years, and their training experience was 15.9 ±8.7 years. All respondents had a technical level of at least 1 dan. Survey method was used, and the questionnaire developed by Tumanian and modified by Januszewski and Sterkowicz was applied. Results: The most important professional activities of a karate Kyokushin coaches reported include three types of management: managing physical, technical and tactical preparation of athletes. Regardless of organizational and age divisions, opinions regarding the importance of particular professional activities of coaches were convergent (rsp = 0.79 −0.92, p <0.001). Conclusions: Structure professional activities deemed most important, allows classified karate Kyokushin as more of a sport than a martial art of self-defense.

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Sasongko, Hario. "PERFORMANCE CAPTURING PENCHAK SILAT MOVEMENT AS A REFERENCE STUDY FOR CONTENT CREATORS." Business Economic, Communication, and Social Sciences (BECOSS) Journal 1, no. 1 (August 31, 2019): 125–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/becossjournal.v1i1.5983.

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Content creators like flmmakers, comic artists, designers or animators, are always wanted to be inspired. Some researched have found that a theme that will never be dried out to explore is the theme about culture. The beauty but deadly characteristic of Penchak Silat could be one of Indonesian unique cultural wealth with great potential as a source for any creative content. But animating or mimicking the movement of Penchak Silat is not an easy task for animators or any content creators, it requires deeper on both pieces of knowledge of motion and self-defense itself, which sometimes can only be understood by someone who spent their life trained in this martial art. This paper method is a documented experiment of using motion capture as a quantitative tool which complements the often qualitative approaches of user observations to study captured movements of Penchak Silat in the form of digital data. In this research a real Penchak Silat practitioner were set of tasks to performed jurus or Penchak Silat codifed movements. The motions of the research subjects were captured by a set of simple motion capture device with four PlayStation cameras. The data recorded through the motion capture system were translated into a rigged 3D model. Conclusions were drawn on the potential use of motion capture tool that can gain beneft to any content creator, based on the accuracy of the body mechanics and complexity of Penchak Silat movements that’s been recorded. Another goal is to provide a ready to use reference for animators, enabling them to bring easier and more eﬀective workﬂows in animation production.

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Yun, Ji-Yeong. "New Horizons of Feminist Ethics - Martial Ethics of Self and Self-Defense." Journal of Korean Women's Studies 34, no. 1 (March 31, 2018): 217–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.30719/jkws.2018.03.34.1.217.

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Madden, Margaret E. "Perceived Vulnerability and Control of Martial Arts and Physical Fitness Students." Perceptual and Motor Skills 80, no. 3 (June 1995): 899–910. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1995.80.3.899.

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Anecdotal reports and limited research suggest that enrolling in self-defense courses can enhance feelings of control and reduce feelings of vulnerability; however, much self-defense is taught in the context of martial arts courses. To assess the effects of martial arts courses on perceptions of vulnerability and control, 83 students in physical fitness and 59 students in martial arts courses at 10 randomly chosen large universities responded to questionnaires. Martial arts students scored lower on control, higher on vulnerability, and higher on perceived likelihood of being injured than fitness students while enrolled in their courses. A year later, regardless of whether they had continued training, they scored higher on control and lower on vulnerability. Neither gender nor prior history of assault was related to responses. Enrolling in martial arts courses may not enhance people's feelings of control, at least in the initial stages of training.

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Harasymowicz, Jan. "Honourable self-defence as the basis of defence education and the optimal model for counteracting aggression." Osvitolohiya, no. 7 (2018): 108–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2226-3012.2018.7.108115.

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The article is an attempt to synthetically explain the theoretical, legal, ethical and methodological basis of a socially optimal model of general principles of teaching and conducting defense struggles. Competently carried out self-defense training can not generate violence and reprehensible, unlawful behaviors, can not ignore the contemporary criteria of physical, moral, psychological and social education of people. Training of combat sports and martial arts, which simultaneously fulfills the utilitarian and axiological-ethical criteria of defensive human education is called training (teaching) honourable self-defense. The author determines the main elements of an optimal and holistic model of training and formulates important conclusions regarding the need to humanize the didactic work carried out by sports and martial arts teachers.

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Lee, Jae-Hak and jang, jae-yi. "Potential Effects of Martial Art Trainees' Commitment on Their Self-realization Potential Effects of Martial Art Trainees' Commitment on Their Self-realization." Journal of Korean Alliance of Martial Arts. 10, no. 2 (December 2008): 127–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.35277/kama.2008.10.2.127.

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O'Connor, Eugene. "Panormita's Reply to His Critics: The Hermaphroditus and the Literary Defense." Renaissance Quarterly 50, no. 4 (1997): 985–1010. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3039402.

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In her discussion of Imitatio, Julia Haig Gaisser describes how humanist scholars and poets justified their light, titillating compositions, based on Catullus, Martial, and The Priapea, by invoking the ancient literary defense, whose purpose was essentially to ward off potential critics or else to justify their oeuvre by making a sharp distinction between their life and their art. One locus classicus is Catullus 16.5-6: “Nam castum esse decet pium poetam/ ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est” (The devoted poet ought to be chaste himself, his verses need not be so). Another is Martial, Epigrams 1.4.8, which, modeled as it is on Ovid, Tristia 2.354, speaks not of poets in general but of Martial himself: “Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba“ (My writing is lascivious, my life pure). The classical defensio or apologia was thus revived and given new meaning by the humanists as they sought to justify their literary endeavors in light of an emerging and ultimately puritanical sense of decorum.

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Twemlow, Stuart W., Barbara H. Lerma, and Stephen W. Twemlow. "An Analysis of Students' Reasons for Studying Martial Arts." Perceptual and Motor Skills 83, no. 1 (August 1996): 99–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1996.83.1.99.

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Responses to a questionnaire study of initial reasons to study martial arts by 170 students in a school of martial arts are described. Although self-defense and physical fitness motives were prominently claimed, further analyses of more subtle existential and psychological issues are warranted.

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Douris, Peter, Christopher Douris, Nicole Balder, Michael LaCasse, Amir Rand, Freya Tarapore, Aleskey Zhuchkan, and John Handrakis. "Martial Art Training and Cognitive Performance in Middle-Aged Adults." Journal of Human Kinetics 47, no. 1 (September 1, 2015): 277–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hukin-2015-0083.

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AbstractCognitive performance includes the processes of attention, memory, processing speed, and executive functioning, which typically declines with aging. Previous research has demonstrated that aerobic and resistance exercise improves cognitive performance immediately following exercise. However, there is limited research examining the effect that a cognitively complex exercise such as martial art training has on these cognitive processes. Our study compared the acute effects of 2 types of martial art training to aerobic exercise on cognitive performance in middle-aged adults. We utilized a repeated measures design with the order of the 3 exercise conditions randomly assigned and counterbalanced. Ten recreational middle-aged martial artists (mean age = 53.5 ± 8.6 years) participated in 3 treatment conditions: a typical martial art class, an atypical martial art class, and a one-hour walk at a self-selected speed. Cognitive performance was assessed by the Stroop Color and Word test. While all 3 exercise conditions improved attention and processing speed, only the 2 martial art conditions improved the highest order of cognitive performance, executive function. The effect of the 2 martial art conditions on executive function was not different. The improvement in executive function may be due to the increased cortical demand required by the more complex, coordinated motor tasks of martial art exercise compared to the more repetitive actions of walking.

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Brown, David, and Alan Johnson. "The Social Practice of Self-Defense Martial Arts: Applications for Physical Education." Quest 52, no. 3 (August 2000): 246–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00336297.2000.10491713.

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Angleman, Amy J., Yoshihiko Shinzato, Vincent B. Van Hasselt, and Stephen A. Russo. "Traditional martial arts versus modern self-defense training for women: Some comments." Aggression and Violent Behavior 14, no. 2 (March 2009): 89–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2008.12.001.

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Maghfirah, Auliana Mukhti, and Erlinda Erlinda. "TRANSFORMASI PENCAK SILAT PARIAN MENJADI TARI GARIGIAK DI ISTANO TUAN GADANG BATIPUAH KECAMATAN BATIPUAH KABUPATEN TANAH DATAR." Gorga : Jurnal Seni Rupa 8, no. 1 (July 2, 2019): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/gr.v8i1.12931.

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AbstrakTari Garigiak adalah satu bentuk seni pertunjukan tradisi di Istano Tuan Gadang Batipuah Kabupaten Tanah Datar, yang gerak tarinya bersumber kepada gerakan Silek Parian. Silek Parian merupakan seni beladiri yang berkembang di Nagari Baipuah Ateh yang di akuui oleh masyarakat keberadaan tari tersebut. Oleh karenanya tari Garigiak diakui pula sebagai produk budaya asli Kecamatan Batipuah, yang memiliki makna khusus dalam kehidupan masyarakat pendukungnya. Tari Garigiak, memiliki gaya gerak yang tidak jauh berbeda dari Silek Parian itu sendiri. Karena bila gaya Silek Parian masih memperlihatkan gaya beladiri yang berbentuk fisik maupun penyaluran tenaganya seperti pertarungan, namun dalam tarian ditampilkan terlihat lebih indah karena sudah mengalami proses stilisasi. Dengan demikian kesenian tradisional tari Garigiak dapat dikatakan sebagai hasil dari proses kreativitas, berupa produk baru yang diciptakan oleh keturunan Tuan Gadang Batipuah. Meskipun secara teks merupakan adaptasi dari Silek Parian. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk melihat faktor penyebab terjadinya transformasi dalam Silek Parian menjadi tari Garigiak di Kecamatan Batipuah. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif, pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui observasi dan mengamati kesenian tradisional khususnya tari tari Garigiak, dokumentasi audio dan visual serta wawancara dengan sejumlah tokoh adat dan masyarakat. Penelitian ini dianalisis dengan teori bentuk, teori fungsi dan teori kreativitas. Secara umum, penelitian ini memperoleh hasil berupa sejauh mana kreativitas dan perwujudan gerak Silek Parian dalam kesenian tradisional masyarakat di Nagari Batipuah ateh yang terfokus pada tari Garigiak.Kata Kunci: Silek Parian, tari Garigiak, masyarakat.AbstractGarigiak dance is a form of traditional performing arts at Istano Tuan Gadang Batipuah Tanah Datar District, whose dance moves are sourced from the Silek Parian movement. Silek Parian is a martial art that developed in Nagari Baipuah Ateh which was acknowledged by the community where the dance was. Therefore Garigiak dance is also recognized as a genuine cultural product of the Batipuah District, which has special meaning in the lives of its supporting communities. Garigiak dance, has a style of motion that is not much different from the Silek Parian itself. Because if the style of Silek Parian still shows a self-defense style in the form of physical as well as channeling its energy like a fight, in the dance it appears to look more beautiful because it has undergone a stylization process. Thus the traditional arts of Garigiak dance can be said to be the result of the process of creativity, in the form of new products created by the descendants of Tuan Gadang Batipuah. Although text is an adaptation of Silek Parian. The purpose of this study was to look at the causes of the transformation in the Silek Parian into the Garigiak dance in Batipuah District. The method used is a qualitative method, data collection is done through observation and observing traditional arts, especially Garigiak dance, audio and visual documentation and interviews with a number of traditional leaders and the community. This research was analyzed by form theory, function theory and creativity theory. In general, this research obtained results in the form of the extent of the creativity and manifestation of the movement of Silek Parian in the traditional arts of the people in Nagari Batipuah ateh which focused on the Garigiak dance. Keywords: Silek Parian, Garigiak dance, society.

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Dong, Hui Fang. "Building the AHP-Based Teaching Ability System for Martial Arts Teachers in Institutions of Higher Learning." Advanced Materials Research 187 (February 2011): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.187.29.

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This study builds with AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) the teaching ability system for martial arts teachers in institutions of higher learning, which falls into four layers: destination layer, criteria layer, feature layer and index layer. The destination layer refers to the teaching abilities of martial arts teachers; the criteria layer consists of two criterions, which are professional practice ability and teaching ability; the feature layer is made up of seven features, including martial arts skills, martial arts organization and judgment, martial arts culture, martial arts graph recognition and routine design, basic quality, basic skill and teaching organization; and the index layer consists of 19 indexes, which are self-defense skills, routine exercise skills, offensive and defensive skills, martial arts organization, martial arts judgment, schools of martial arts, martial arts culture, martial arts graph recognition, martial arts routine design, professional ethics, teamwork, humanistic quality, language expression, student management, teaching research, course design, teaching practice, teaching evaluation and teaching guide. The results show that the top five impact factors for the teaching ability of martial arts teachers in institutions of higher learning are course design, routine exercise skills, teaching practice, teaching research and martial arts routine design.

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Lee, Jae-Hak, Kang, Byung-Pyo, and Jang, Jae-Ri. "The effect of Martial-art Majoring Students' Training flow on Self-concept." Journal of Korean Alliance of Martial Arts. 10, no. 1 (September 2008): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.35277/kama.2008.10.1.103.

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Ball, Kimberly, and Jeffrey Martin. "Self-defense training and traditional martial arts: Influences on self-efficacy and fear related to sexual victimization." Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology 1, no. 2 (2012): 135–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0025745.

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LOOSER, DIANA. "Radical Bodies and Dangerous Ladies: Martial Arts and Women's Performance, 1900–1918." Theatre Research International 36, no. 1 (December 21, 2010): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883310000684.

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This article explores women's practice and theatrical presentation of jujutsu and judo in the early years of the twentieth century in the United States, Britain and New Zealand. My discussion treats three figures in particular: Fude Yamashita, who tutored upper-class Washington socialites and performed judo demonstrations on the American stage; the English militant vote-seeker, playwright and jujutsu practitioner Edith Garrud, proponent of jujutsu as a political activist performance and coordinator of the ‘fighting suffragettes’; and New Zealander Florence Le Mar, vaudeville performer and ‘the World's Famous Ju-Jitsu Girl’, who enthralled audiences with her spectacular show designed as an educational enterprise to empower women through transferable self-defence skills. A historical survey of these women's activities contributes to our understanding of the varied ways that women during this period used performance to resist patriarchal institutions and definitions, while offering insights into some of the ways that the Japanese martial arts were reinvented following their introduction to the West.

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Thành, Nguyễn Tường, Lê Văn Hùng, and Phạm Thành Công. "An Evaluation of Pose Estimation in Video of Traditional Martial Arts Presentation." Journal of Research and Development on Information and Communication Technology 2019, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 114–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.32913/mic-ict-research.v2019.n2.864.

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Preserving, maintaining, and teaching traditional martial arts are very important activities in social life. That helps individuals preserve national culture, exercise, and practice self-defense. However, traditional martial arts have many differentposturesaswellasvariedmovementsofthebodyand body parts. The problem of estimating the actions of human body still has many challenges, such as accuracy, obscurity, and so forth. This paper begins with a review of several methods of 2-D human pose estimation on the RGB images, in which the methods of using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have outstanding advantages in terms of processing time and accuracy. In this work we built a small dataset and used CNN for estimating keypoints and joints of actions in traditional martial arts videos. Next we applied the measurements (length of joints, deviation angle of joints, and deviation of keypoints) for evaluating pose estimation in 2-D and 3-D spaces. The estimator was trained on the classic MSCOCO Keypoints Challenge dataset, the results were evaluated on a well-known dataset of Martial Arts, Dancing, and Sports dataset. The results were quantitatively evaluated and reported in this paper.

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Johnson, Jean H., and Louise Sipos. "The art of self-defense: Litigation and the neonatal nurse." Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing 1, no. 2 (October 1987): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005237-198710000-00009.

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Kozdras, Grzegorz Piotr. "Empathy in children practising judo compared to their non-practicing peers." Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas 14, no. 2s (November 18, 2019): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/rama.v14i2s.5950.

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<div>Many authors dealing with martial arts and combat sports indicate that this form of activity contributes to limiting aggressive behavior towards other people. Contemporary psychological and pedagogical knowledge explains that empathy is one of the factors that determines a friendly and aggression-free attitude of people towards others. This study we compared the level of empathy between children practicing judo for a minimum of two years and their peers who did not practiced any martial art. Results showed higher levels of empathy in the group of judo practitioners. Judo trainers also agreed that judo participation may improve children’s emotional development (emotional self-regulation and emotional self-awareness).</div>

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Katz, Peter. "STAGING THE STREETS: THE THEATRICALITY OF SCIENCE IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE MARTIAL ARTS." Victorian Literature and Culture 44, no. 2 (May 10, 2016): 343–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150315000662.

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As they near the conclusion of their 1890 treatise Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defense, Baron Headley (Rowland George Allanson-Winn) and C. Phillips-Wolley imagine skeptical readers who resist their admonitions to vigilance: “I can almost hear people say, ‘Oh, this is all rubbish; I'm not going to be attacked; life would not be worth living if one had to be always “on guard” in this way’” (Headley and Phillips-Wolley 111). But, Headley and Phillips-Wolley counter, “this world, from the time we are born to the time we die, is made up of uncertainties” (111). Throughout the text, lurking hoodlums and deceitful beggars embody these “uncertainties,” and at every moment destabilize the security of the unsuspecting gentleman or lady. Uncertainty gathers in these shadowy bodies with such force that the authors declare, “we are never really secure from attack at any moment of our lives” (111). As a remedy for the threat of the uncertain attacker, they suggest “the pursuit of a science,… which may… enable you to turn a defeat into a victory, and save yourself from being mauled and possibly killed in a fight which was none of your own making” (111). In short, the science of self-defense.

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Sullivan, Kathleen. "Helping People Help Themselves: Teaching Martial Arts to Women Street Vendors." Practicing Anthropology 17, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1995): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.17.1-2.x38x223k141446hk.

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It has been over a century since Tylor stated that "we have in anthropology the means of leaving the world a better place than we found it" (as cited in Cultural Anthropology, Third Edition, by Serena Nanda [Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1986]). Applied anthropology, in particular, offers a means of giving back to the community in which one conducts fieldwork. This article describes the creation of a relationship of confidence which enabled women street vendors in Chiapas, Mexico, to share with me accounts of rape, and which later facilitated intervention. The intervention included offering a modified martial arts training program within the broader context of self-defense.

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Kirchhoff, Chassica. "Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition: Collected Martial Knowledge in the Thun-Hohenstein Album." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 6, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 3–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/apd-2018-0001.

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Abstract The Thun-Hohenstein album, long-known as the Thun’sche Skizzenbuch, is a bound collection of 112 drawings that visualize armoured figures at rest and in combat, as well as empty armours arrayed in pieces. The collection gathers drawings that span the period from the 1470s to around 1590. While most of the images were executed in Augsburg during the 1540s, the album’s three oldest drawings date to the late-fifteenth century. Two of these works, which form a codicological interlude between the first and second quires, find parallels in the illustrations of contemporaneous martial treatises. This article traces the pictorial lineages of these atextual images through comparative analyses of fight books produced in the German-speaking lands, and considers how the representational strategies deployed in martial treatises inflected the ways that book painters and their audiences visualized the armoured body. This exploration situates a manuscript from which one of the drawings derives, Peter Falkner’s Art of Knightly Defense, now in Vienna, within the Augsburg book painters’ workshops that would later give rise to the Thun album. Finally, this study considers how the transmission and representation of martial knowledge in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Augsburg contributed to the later depictions of armoured bodies that populate the album.

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Hughes, Patricia Paulsen, Claudine Sherrill, Bettye Myers, Nancy Rowe, and David Marshall. "Self-Defense and Martial Arts Evaluation for College Women: Preliminary Validation of Perceptions of Dangerous Situations Scale." Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport 74, no. 2 (June 2003): 153–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2003.10609077.

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Henning, Stanley E. "Ge Hong: el famoso pensador Taoísta y artista marcial práctico." Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas 2, no. 4 (July 18, 2012): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/rama.v2i4.331.

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Ge Hong (284-363 CE) was an important intellectual figure of his time. He is known primarily for his interest in Daoist pursuits, including alchemy, as discussed in his writings titled One Who Embraces Simplicity (Baopuzi). However, the fact that he was also a military officer, who had practiced several weapons styles and who provides valuable insights into Chinese martial arts practices, has generally been ignored. This short article will attempt to outline Ge Hong’s contributions to our understanding of the role of martial arts in Chinese culture and society based on his personal experience and observations. Ge Hong viewed the martial arts as practical skills related to hunting (archery) and self-defense, not Daoist pursuits, and he mentions that some of these skills could even be seen in children’s play. His reference to Cao Pi (Emperor of Wei, 220-226 CE) sparring with General Deng Zhan reflects the place of martial arts among leadership in the political military system of early imperial China (206 BCE-960 CE). His explanation of oral formulas (koujue) is indicative of the secrecy maintained by martial artists concerning individual techniques.

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Teo, Stephen. "Confucian Orientalism and Western Outlook in Martial Arts Film." Journal of Chinese Film Studies 1, no. 1 (March 11, 2021): 65–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcfs-2021-0006.

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Abstract This paper discusses the martial arts genre with reference to the films of the Japanese master Kurosawa Akira and the Chinese director Zhang Yimou, discussing how both directors converge in their themes and styles through the concept of “Eastern Orientalism.” Such Orientalism is based on Confucian precepts of zhengming (rectification of names), chaos theory, and the defense of the people undertaken by militaristic but heroic individual protagonists (samurai or xia). In raising the issue of Orientalism, the paper probes into the Western perceptions of the genre and the imperative of directors like Kurosawa and Zhang in pandering to Western tastes. However, these same directors seem equally preoccupied with fostering a sense of self and nationalistic expression in their response to and treatment of Orientalized content. The paper concludes with a discussion on The Great Wall (2016) as a comparative review of the Western and Eastern viewpoints at play in the US-China co-production. Here the analysis revolves around the issue of sameness, dramatized as a main theme in the film.

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Cynarski, Wojciech Jan, and John Arthur Johnson. "North Korea’s emerging martial arts tourism: a Taekwon-Do case study." International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 14, no. 4 (March 23, 2020): 667–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-07-2019-0133.

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Purpose This descriptive, non-experiment case study addresses the little-studied topic of martial arts tourism within the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK; i.e., North Korea) to determine if it is a form of non-entertainment tourism. Design/methodology/approach The current research focusses on a single subject (Singaporean female; 36 years of age (at time of interview); Taekwon-Do 4th degree black belt) who travelled to the DPRK three times to practice the Korean martial art Taekwon-Do. After the initial contact, a questionnaire was used and direct interviews via Skype and Facebook were performed. A broad thematic discourse, as well as analysis of the subject’s travel and practice notes and photographs from her stay in the DPRK, were also incorporated into the findings. Findings The subject developed new Taekwon-Do skills, which permitted her to obtain higher Taekwon-Do ranks as well as enriched her personality and changed certain conceptions. Self-realization and self-improvement through martial arts are the dominant motives of martial arts tourism. Therefore, the subject’s motivation confirms martial arts tourism can be a variation of non-entertainment tourism. Research limitations/implications This research is hindered by the standard case study limitations: it is difficult to generalize this study’s results to the wider DPRK population, the interviewee’s and researchers’ subjective feelings may have influenced the findings, and selection bias is definitely a factor because of the study’s population being a single female of non-DPRK origin. Originality/value As one of the first studies on DPRK martial arts tourism and practice, this research examines where research on the DPRK and martial arts tourism intersect. It is thusly unique in providing new insights into the DPRK’s intention for its tourism industry, as well as Taekwon-Do, arguably its most marketable cultural asset.

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Hayhurst, Lyndsay M. C. "Girls as the ‘New’ Agents of Social Change? Exploring the ‘Girl Effect’ through Sport, Gender and Development Programs in Uganda." Sociological Research Online 18, no. 2 (May 2013): 192–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2959.

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The purpose of this study was to explore how girls in Eastern Uganda experienced a corporate-funded sport, gender and development (SGD) martial arts program. This study used 19 semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observation and document analysis. Results revealed that while the martial arts program increased the young women's confidence, challenged gender norms, augmented their social networks, improved their physical fitness and was useful for providing them with employment opportunities, the program also attempted to ‘govern’ their sexuality and sexual relations with boys and men by promoting individual avoidance and encouraging the use of self-defense strategies against potential abusers. To conclude, I argue that girl-focused SGD programs such as the one studied here impel young women to be the agents of social change and to cope with the potential resistance (e.g., from some of their family and community members) to their participation in SGD programs by building their self-esteem, confidence and self-responsibility. Despite this – and as the ‘new agents of social change’ – these young women still must navigate the structural inequalities that tend to marginalize their lives in the first place.

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Wallace, Bruce. "The Manly Art of Self-Defense: On the Neutrality of Fitness Components." Quarterly Review of Biology 66, no. 4 (December 1991): 455–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/417339.

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Seo, Myeong-Il, and Han-Joon Lee. "The Effects of Self-esteem on Job Satisfaction and Service Orientation of Martial art Sport Leader." Korean Journal of Sports Science 28, no. 6 (December 31, 2019): 687–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35159/kjss.2019.12.28.6.687.

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Rabi'ah, Rabi'ah. "Pendidikan Karakter Melalui Kuntau Seni Beladiri Masyarakat Banjar Di Kalimantan Selatan." SYAMIL: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam (Journal of Islamic Education) 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.21093/sy.v7i2.1807.

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Character education is one of the national education programs that is always promoted for the younger generation, ranging from Basic Education to Higher Education. The government thinks character education is a solution to various problems, ranging from corruption, intolerance, to environmental problems such as garbage and floods. Various methods are used in order to grow these characters. The focus of this research is how character education is in accordance with the values of Islamic teachings through the Kuntao martial arts. Kuntao is a traditional martial art that has long been practiced by the Banjar people in South Kalimantan. This research is expected to provide a new treasure about the contribution of the traditional martial arts of the banjar community in Islamic education. The research method used is a qualitative method with an ethnographic approach. The subjects of the study were the martial arts teacher, students, peers, and parents. Data analysis using miles and Huberman analysis. Data validity through source triangulation. The results of this study are that character education through martial arts has fulfilled the 3 pillars of character education in Islamic education namely morals, etiquette, and exemplary. Being obedient in carrying out the Islamic Shari'ah, respecting others, self-confidence, and humility are the characters that are formed through the teaching of martial arts in the Banjar community. In harmony with Islamic values that can not be separated from the role model of the teacher’s kuntao.

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