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  1. Martial arts

    Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defense; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Martial Arts

    Activities in which participants learn self-defense mainly through the use of hand-to-hand combat. Judo involves throwing an opponent to the ground while karate (which includes kung fu and tae kwon do) involves kicking and punching an opponent.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of martial arts in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of martial arts in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of martial arts in a Sentence

  1. Dan Inosanto:

    He was never, in my opinion, cocky, maybe he was cocky in as far as martial arts because he was very sure of himself. He was worlds ahead of everyone else. But on a set, he's not gon na show off.

  2. Joe Lewis:

    ...we pay for the activities that already exists in their community that they pick as their personal outlet. So we have done things like surfing, baking lessons, swimming lessons... Taekwondo and martial arts, as long as it’s a fun event and it has a coach or instructor component to it, we are going to find a way to say yes.

  3. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa:

    Look, I do n’t want to offend anyone : Ring girls are the most useless people in martial arts. What is their function ? I have a question. You can show that it is the second round on the screen, i realize that is a history( behind ring card girls). History knows many mistakes. We read history to avoid mistakes of the past in the future. If we look in the history, it says they are useless. That is my personal opinion. Dana White maybe likes it. Maybe you do, too. But my name is not Dana White. My name is Khabib Nurmagomedov.

  4. Kevin Orcutt:

    The nunchaku is a martial arts device or weapon that Bruce Lee demonstrated in many movies. That's not what I'm teaching here. The impact techniques are extremely simple, as in any baton user would be able to master those techniques, and they don't take long to teach, the remainder of the training is for the control applications, which the martial arts experts don't teach because they're not putting people in handcuffs.

  5. So I Married an Axe Murderer:

    Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground.


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