Indian Sword Fight

When students of Kalarippayattu, a traditional martial art, have mastered stick combat and unarmed dance movements, they move on to daring sword techniques. Similar to the stick combat, students demonstrate their skills with leaping twists and dangerous sword strikes. Distributed by TubeMogul.

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[killafoniasbest]

lmfao that dude with the clappers is gettin DOWN!!!

[bigAdirty]

That band needs to throw in some fuckin cowbell.

[rmwua]

@6arcsn1sky

haha yeah that´s right you got a point :)

I was just thinking.....

:)

[6arcsn1sky]

@rmwua First, the origins of martial arts does matter because some believe India is where it started, but no. Second, people need to know in general that martial arts isn't reserved to only East Asian fighting styles, but fighting styles of all over the world.

[rmwua]

@6arcsn1sky

I don´t know we never proved it right?

but what does it actually matter it's about the fighting and the way we live. it's not about who was the first... right?

[6arcsn1sky]

@MrNinjerk Sorry, but kalaripayattu isn't the root of all martial arts because two Shaolin monks already knew martial arts two hundred years before Bodhidhrama came to the temple. Also, I wouldn't say "all martial arts" because different countries and culture will develop their fighting system.

[MrNinjerk]

@MrNinjerk =personally, I don't think so. Kalarippayattu is too traditionally rituallistic to take on the martial arts that have spawned from it, for it's not as advance as it once was. However, if some1 schooled in kalari were 2 take out the ritualism and focus on combat applications as advance as the other M.A.s, it might prove tough enough 2 hang w/ the rest.

[Mystl1]

@MrNinjerk Can Kalarippayattu counter the movements of the other Martial Arts?

[MrNinjerk]

@Mystl1 = theoretically, yes. As the story goes: the early shaolin monks were taught martial arts by Bhodidarmah, an indian buddhist missionary & once rajput, so that they may defend theirselves from bandits & mongols. So, ideally, Kalarippayattu is the root to all martial arts.

[KingR3aper]

Lol anyone ever notice when indians do ...some sort of...anything...they always look flamboyant and...xD lolworthy? Dancing,martial arts, marching, and closing the gates to that border they have with (pakistan?)

[Mystl1]

Isn't Kalarippayattu the origin of all Marttial Arts?

[samanthaisam]

what are they trying to do??