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Editorial: Is Martial Arts Studies Trivial? [PDF]
Martial Arts Studies, 2017 Before introducing the articles comprising this issue of Martial Arts Studies, this editorial first undertakes a sustained reflection on the question of whether the emergent field of martial arts studies might be regarded as trivial. In doing so, it explores possible rationales and raisons d’être of the field in terms of a reflection on the ...
Bowman, Paul, Judkins, Benjamin N.
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Philosophies, 2023 Physical activities are generally accepted as promoting important psychological benefits. However, studies examining martial arts as a form of physical activity and mental health have exhibited many methodological limitations in the past.
Brian Moore +2 more
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Martial Arts and Metabolic Diseases
Sports, 2016 Different forms of martial arts are practiced worldwide, each with various intensities of physical activity. These disciplines are potentially an effective exercise therapy for metabolic diseases.
Hidetaka Hamasaki
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Asking the question: is martial arts studies an academic field? [PDF]
Martial Arts Studies, 2015 This article proposes that the emerging field of martial arts studies will benefit by engaging as thoroughly with questions of disciplinarity as with questions of martial arts. It argues that thorough and self-reflexive attention to the problems and possibilities associated with academic work as such will greatly enrich martial arts studies and enable ...
Bowman, Paul, Cardiff University Press
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The Kung Fu Family: A metaphor of belonging across time and place [PDF]
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2018 Kung Fu associations are often understood as ‘families’ forming broader ‘family trees’ or lineages operating across centuries of history as well as transcultural associations.
Veronika Partikova, George Jennings
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Asian Martial Arts in the Asian Studies Curriculum [PDF]
JOMEC Journal, 2014 This article is both a review of the current state of martial arts studies and a survey of the status of martial arts in higher education. It provides a rationale for inclusion of martial arts courses in the Asian Studies curriculum and a resource guide for designing such courses.
Wile, Douglas, Douglas Wile
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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia [PDF]
, 2023 This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China.
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Recentering the Cartographies of Karate : Martial Arts Tourism in Okinawa [PDF]
, 2021 Background. Since the beginning of the 2010s, the Okinawan Government has been making significant efforts to develop, professionalize, and promote karate tourism in Okinawa, since this is known to be an essential sector for the island's economy.
González de la Fuente, Eduardo
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Review of Reinventing martial arts in the 21st Century, by George Jennings
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2023 In Reinventing martial arts in the 21st Century (published by Peter Lang, 2023), George Jennings proposes a hybrid online/offline multi-situated ethnography to account for the circumstances of traditional martial arts nowadays.
Raúl Sánchez García
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GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR PENCAK SILAT TAPAK SUCI REAL-TIME ANIMATION
Jurnal Ilmu Komputer dan Informasi, 2020 The main target in this research is a design of a virtual martial arts training system in real-time and as a tool in learning martial arts independently using genetic algorithm methods and dynamic time warping.
Widi Hastomo
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