Toronto woman keeps ancient Indian martial art alive

Gitanjali Kolanad teaches Kalaripayat in her downtown Toronto studio. She may be the only person in Canada who teaches this unusual 600-year-old martial art from India. Visit thestar.com for the latest News headlines, Sports, Entertainment and more from the voice of the GTA.

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[psychobobsnob24]

did some idiot post here that 'a few martial arts are 10,000 years old'?

[Standardfrank]

@GanjaBhai : Hmmm....Indians Were Taught Martial Arts By The TAMA REANS And It Was The Indians Who Gave Pieces To The Chinese. Well, This Is TAMA Re Legacy For Which Every One Now Attributes To The Chinese For Commercial Purposes...But Why Should You Be Taught Any Different? After All, The Vai Gave The World Base ~20: Mathematics, The Dohgon Base-8...For Which Most INDIANS ARE NOT AWARE...All Nuwbun Languages Are Coded With Binary, Base-8, Or Base-20 Mathematics...All Coded In My Hair-Spirals!

[Orcrist]

600 years is right go research your facts instead of believing hearsay.

[studentofthegr8art]

@bluecollarcanuck well i dont know much about filipino martial arts, but from what i heard "the defanging the snake technique" is a technique used for disarming an opponent, in kalari there are a set of techniques called "verum kai"( empty hand), which are used to fight opponent armed with daggers, swords etc, with bare hands.

[bluecollarcanuck]

@studentofthegr8art Based on some of the techniques shown here, how would you compare this to the "defanging the snake" technique of Filipino Kali/ Arnis?

[studentofthegr8art]

well no one can tell when kalri originated but dhanur veda, one of the oldest text written, has descriptions of a fighting art that is similar to kalari, most weapons described in the dhanur veda are similar to kalari weapons.

[moonachi]

@PrometheanRunGood it is a very well known fact that Roshis(Rishi) spread the original martial arts from India which got further subdivided into other forms such as the lath fight (fighting with a staff),kick fight (muai Thai) etc

[filthyassmonkey]

@dsiminet civilization does not date back as far to record

[zaracki92]

@RhadeConstantine indeed, some of these idiots needs to atleast google some info before arguing....

[RhadeConstantine]

@zaracki92 kalaripayattu, was taken to china by bodhidharma where it laid the foundation of shaolin kung fu, and then it later spread to japan. there are carvings of bodhidharma teaching kalaripayattu in a cave near the shaolin monastery and the monk's themselves have said that their martial arts came from india. it's very well documented. all asian martial arts did indeed come from kalaripayattu. I don't get why people argue about that its pretty evident.