There’s more than one kind of Asian!

I will flag trolling. I don’t want my post clogged up with it.

My current favourite thing about Indian culture is the legend of a woman called Mirabai. She’s really cool

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Agreed

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And Asian countries have martial arts deeply and intrinsically tied into their spiritual beliefs and their culture. Schools in Japan teach kendo, and the Korean military uses a specialised form of ‘military tae-kwon-do’

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What does Lmao mean! And I’m not a troll. I am a human! Stop being racist! We don’t even believe in trolls in CHINA anyways!

I don’t actually know why we stopped using Indian Martial Arts. I’ll look into it, but I think it has something to do with colonialism and adopting British fighting styles. I’ll let you know.

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What are some asian martial arts that aren’t very well known?

Five years ago I would have said muay thai, but that’s had a huge resurgence recently.

I’d probably say something from the middle east to be honest. No one really practices those in the west

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Please do! You know martial arts is my sweet spot xD

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I don’t know a lot. Is taekwondo a martial arts?

Thank you.

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(My favourite least known martial art in the world, as a matter of fact, is hapkido! <3)

I don’t know much about martial arts. Is jiu jitsu a form?

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I can teach you some basic Indian martial arts dancing stuff from Gharba, but it would involve getting the pretty Dandiya sticks

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Indeed it is :smiley:

It’s usually mixed with other things these days because samurai would learn it to go with their swordplay!

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Lmao—I’m racist now? How? :sob:

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What is dandiya stick?

I’d actually like to know a bit more: out of the most popular Asian forms of martial arts, which ones come from which countries?

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I’ve been playing Dandiya since I was a little girl, but my LORD does it hurt your fingers when the guys don’t aim very well. I always get bruises

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We don’t believe in trolls in China, and second, trolls gave never existed in our mythology. Just some gods, and a pig as a demon in the mythologies.

Can you show me a picture of a dandiya stick?