What is the Difference Between Martial Arts and Martial Sports

In order to gain a true insight and get a complete pictureabout the differences between martial arts and martial sports, we have to go back through history and consider the motives of their separate creation and developmenttoronto martial arts class. Historically, three different types of people used and developed martial arts, the ruling class, soldiers and peasants. Of course, the army needed training primarily with weapons, but also training the warheads of fighting (in case they lose weapons in combat) because their main task is to protect the country from the enemy or to go to new conquests. The ruling class has trained martial arts for discipline and the development of will, learning strategies for fighting and to have more chances to defend themselves against attempted assassinations. Peasants or the lowest class were trained to protect themselves from the attack of the bandits and the army. For example, in ancient Japan, for some time, peasants were forbidden to carry weapons, while the army (samurai) often oppressed them. Thus, a bitter way of fighting developed more, and some agricultural tools took on a form of weapons. In this way, new fighting styles and new types of weapons were created, such as kama1, nunchaky2, kunai3, toami4, etc.

The point of everything is that the original purpose of martial arts was to train the methods of combat that were most effective in the war, self-defense of the army, assassins or bandits, with the basic aim of survival at all costs. In those times there were some types of competition, but the goal was to learn to fight better before defeating them. Changes in most martial arts occur around 1900, where the focus is on spiritual and mental goals, rather than on warriors. So most martial arts today have the main goal of developing an individual. Therefore, most of the skills that have taken on the edge of sports today have the continuation of "Do" at the end of their name. "Do" means art, path or method. So, there are judo, karate-do, taekwondo, aikido, kendo, etc. In contrast, other skills that have retained the goal of fighting without rules often have a continuation of jitsu at the end, such as ninjutsu, ju-jitsu, ken-jitsu, aiki-jitsu etc.

To note that the previous passages relate primarily to the eastern martial arts, the Japanese, but the situation was similar in the West, beginning with the period of Ancient Greece, where the first records of the battle of no weapons appeared, which had almost all the reverse of today's sports competitions (it is primarily meant for the so-called poetry and wrestling).

Tales of the Olympic winners and heroes are known, but also the losers who gave their lives in these cruel battles, all in order to win at any price. As you can see, competitions in the east and west did not have the same motives and did not contain the same moral and code values ​​in themselves.

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