Martial Arts Travel & Destinations Guide

Martial Arts is a combat sports, it shares a single objective: to defeat a person physically or to defend oneself from physical threat.

The term "Martial Arts" often specifically refers to the combat systems that originated in East Asian cultures.

Methods of training vary and may include sparring or forms, which are routine of techniques that are performed alone or with a partner. Martial Arts focus on using one's feet to attack or disarm an opponent, other martial arts concentrate on the use of one's hands or making throws to render an opponent useless.

Many arts are also practiced competitively most commonly as combat sports.