Some Vietnames martial arts (Viet Vo Dao) pages:
Interesting histroy (http://cclib.nsu.ru/projects/satbi/satbi-e/martart/vietnam.html).
Cuong Nhu (http://www.cuongnhu.com/index.lasso).
Vovinam (http://www.vovinam.com/).
Vovinam interview (http://www.jlab.org/intralab/committees/jag/Vovinam/interview.html).
Than Vo Dao (http://www.sevenmountainskungfu.com/System.html).

Evidently there are a number of Sino-Vietnamese martial arts as well (what might be called kuntao systems in Indonesia or the Philippines).

Links to brief descriptions:
http://www.usadojo.com/s_s_vietnam.htm

There is also Vo Tu Do, Vietnamese kickboxing:

http://www.vietanhmon.org/fassociazioni.htm (In French)

http://www.blackbeltmag.com/archives/blackbelt/1992/jan92/snakestyle/snakestyle.html

The Snake Style of VietNam
From the Rice Paddies of Indochina to the Streets of America
by Jason Vail

black belt article

Originally posted by Stickgrappler

http://www.blackbeltmag.com/archives/blackbelt/1992/jan92/snakestyle/snakestyle.html


Interesting, thanks! I searched and found something of a followup:
http://www.cnomaa.org/Pages/Dragonnhus/detail.lasso?ID=447

It's from a Cuong Nhu online magazine:
http://www.cnomaa.org/Pages/Dragonnhus/current.lasso

Also there is a Wing Chun line in Viet Nam that the rest of the world did not know about till around 4 or 5 years ago. I read it in a magazine that interviewed the school. It evolved over many years as did other arts that are tranferred to another country.

I'll look for the article and see if I can scan to an accepable size to fit in here, maybe several parts to make it fit.

are the vietnamese martial arts weapons based??

and are they also influenced by the large ethnic chinese population in vietnam???

thanks

terry

I don't know much about the weapons, but yes they were strongly influenced by the Chinese arts. Many are really just the local interpretation of a Chinese kung fu system.

Originally posted by akja
Also there is a Wing Chun line in Viet Nam that the rest of the world did not know about till around 4 or 5 years ago. I read it in a magazine that interviewed the school. It evolved over many years as did other arts that are tranferred to another country.

I'll look for the article and see if I can scan to an accepable size to fit in here, maybe several parts to make it fit.

Sorry the attachment did not take.

Originally posted by akja
Sorry the attachment did not take.

If it dosen't work this time I'll have to find another way.

Try e-mailing it to an admin. It may be that it's too big of course.

-Arnisador
-MT Admin-

Originally posted by arnisador
Try e-mailing it to an admin. It may be that it's too big of course.

-Arnisador
-MT Admin-

OK, thanx buddy!:asian: