not well known arts

[hapki-bujutsu]

I'm looking for arts that may not be well known. anyone know of any that are interesting and have a wesite? or maybe a name I could search under?

Thanks

 

[pknox]

I'm sure there are many. Some koryu arts have relatively few practitioners left, especially outside of Japan, and some kung fu styles are relatively secretive and/or esoteric and do not have a wide following. As far as arts from traditions where one may not initially think to look:

Gatka and Kalaripayattu are two martial arts of Indian origin that are not very well known in the west:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Martial_Arts/Gatka/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Martial_Arts/Kalaripayattu/

Stav is a western european art that is relatively rare as well:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Cu...Practices/Paganism/Traditions_and_Paths/Stav/

The martial arts of Vietnam are beginning to gain a bit of foothold here in the U.S., but are still pretty underrepresented in comparison to their counterparts from other asian regions:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Martial_Arts/Vovinam_Viet_Vo_Dao/

 

[2fisted]

The Tibetan kungfu styles are also relatively rare. Lion's Roar, etc.

 

[Trent]

You don't find the one I practice very widespread.

 

[SenseiBear]

My primary style (being a relatively young style) is also pretty rare - I am one of around 2 dozen blackbelts in the art.

www.ironcrane.com

 

[paihequan]

Paihequan (Fujian White Crane-Fist). Our web site is at:

http://home.austarnet.com.au/tsuruken

 

[Touch Of Death]

Sinanju baby

 

[theletch1]

http://www.aikidoinc.com/home.asp?sid=PDfzlSGP3PHJ7FmPQ562AIXjCYcJQ8n3UGTMAYw7c91lDN351o This is my style. No longer studied in Japan. It is NOT an off shoot of Ueshiba style. I think if compared to traditional style aikido it would be considered a "hard" style of aikido.

 

[Old Tiger]

catchwrestling- almost extinct. Only one teaching "hooker" left. He may well be the last although many have and will have had their groundfighting influenced by it.
www.catchwrestle.com

 

[OULobo]

I came across this website and thought it was really cool. Its about the Sikh martial arts.

http://www.shastarvidiya.org/htmls/home.html

 

[psi_radar]

You don't find the one I practice very widespread.

(Kuntao Silat)

Hey Trent, we actually see a lot of it out here. My Kenpo teacher's been influenced by it--we apply guntings to just about every Kenpo technique, where appropriate. Hell of an art, what I've seen of it. A buddy of mine took it for a long while, conditioned his shins and forarms with two-by-fours, among other things. Do you practice the same type of conditioning? (sorry for the thread-jacking)

 

[Matt Bernius]

We also have a Kuntao program in my area.

How aboue Bak mei (white eyebrow) for a rare art?

- Matt

 

[Eldritch Knight]

Kalari Payattu. A small MA from India's southernmost state (Kerala). It was apparently the mother of all martial arts. The guy who gave kung fu to the Shaolin monks (Bodhidharma) was a big Kalari master.

 

[TonyM.]

www.dragonslist.com/articles/articles/index.php?articleid=112
This isn't well known. I practice a version of this I was taught 34 yrs ago although I don't call it Ha Say Fu as it was introduced to me simply as Gong Fu or Village style. Also more footwork and longrange tactics as I was taught it. Sort of Hung hands and Mok feet.

 

[7starmantis]

Originally posted by Eldritch Knight
Kalari Payattu. A small MA from India's southernmost state (Kerala). It was apparently the mother of all martial arts. The guy who gave kung fu to the Shaolin monks (Bodhidharma) was a big Kalari master.

Thats interesting, do you have any sources for that?

7sm

 

[psi_radar]

I've heard that before too, though I think it might better be called the mother of all Asian martial arts. Black Belt magazine did an article on it a few years back. Tiny pockets of the tradition are still alive in small villages in India.

 

[Zoran]

http://dmoz.org/Sports/Martial_Arts/Indian/
Which includes Gatka and Kalaripayatt

http://dmoz.org/Sports/Martial_Arts/Western/
You may find a couple sites for styles you may not have heard of. Especially in the Schools and Instructions section.

 

[Bod]

Cornish Wrestling - almost dead
Breton Wrestling - doing slightly better.

They are similar to judo in some ways - not surprising since they have very similar clothes and rules. Celtic wrestling has been around for at least 1500 years, and the style hasn't changed much in 500 years. That's nothing compared to Greco-Roman of course, but wrestling, generally, is as old as the hills.

There is Mongolian wrestling which is doing reasonably well, because, apart from the horse and goat game, that is pretty much all the fun there is to be had in Mongolia. Oh, and fermented mare's milk.

 

[theletch1]

and goat game

I hear they have a game like that over in West Virginia, too (and since you're in London I guess you can replace WV with Scottland)

 

[KenpoTess]

Originally posted by theletch1
I hear they have a game like that over in West Virginia, too (and since you're in London I guess you can replace WV with Scottland)

Watch it buster..