What martial art is best for learning how to turn a weapon technique into a empty hand techniqe?
If I wanted to create an empty handed form of a classical weapons based martial art, which martial art would be the best to learn in order to understand this process?
Just in case someone needs a little more info about which martial art I wish to create an empty handed style, it’s gatka/shastar vidiya.
Just in case someone needs a little more info about which martial art I wish to create an empty handed style, it’s gatka/shastar vidiya.
By: Hardas Singh
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Filed under Martial Arts by on Dec 26th, 2009. 
Comments on What martial art is best for learning how to turn a weapon technique into a empty hand techniqe?
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krav maga
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American Kenpo, chopping set would set you right up. Krav Maga = Isreal taking American Kenpo and making it their own. So if there is a better instructor or if 1 is more pricy or if only 1 is avalible let that affect your decision as both would have the same outcome.
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Just my personal opinion, but I would go with Aikido. If you’ve ever seen an Aikido demonstration you will notice that most of the techniques are based on staff, and sword techniques.
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I have studied a lot of martial arts where there is overlap between the armed and unarmed katas. Just to name a few…
Aikido
Ninjutsu
Silat
Kali-Escrima
There is always going to be overlap between the armed and unarmed forms. The ones mentioned above will all go over this, and Ninjutsu actually makes it a point to explain that overlap to you.
The poster above me is very correct in pointing out that Aikido comes from sword and stick techniques. Aikido sword fighting is impressive.
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Ur looking at this *** backwards. Most if not all weapon techniques are based off of open handed techniques. How do u think people used to defend themselves if they had no weapon available or if they got disarmed?
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I do gatka, and I’ve been doing Aikido for a long while, so I feel I can answer this. Aikido developed from spear, short staff and sword techniques, and is closely linked to Iaido and Jodo. It uses many techniques derived from weapon movements, and also uses weapons, but only quite late on. It would be the best martial art to learn. I would also recommend a little home taught Tai Chi. My advice: use the above arts to imagine the weapon as an extension of your arm, then allow strikes to become throws. Also, you should do a striking martial art (I recommend Tae Kwon Do) as Gatka is obviously full of strikes, even though it flows. You need to know how to strike.
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The Filipino martial arts (Kali, Escrima, and Arnis) come to mind. They’re weapons-based systems that use movements which are easily transferable to empty-hand fighting.
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why, this has already been done in several styles,
kobudo is the and kobujitsu were created be for karate, and one theory is karate came from kobujutsu.
why do you people always want to reinvent the wheel.