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‘A Very Unstatic Sport’: An Ethnographic Study of British Savate Classes

open access: yesSocieties, 2018
The empirical focus of this paper is a martial art, Savate, which has received little scholarly attention from social scientists in the English-speaking world.
James Victor Southwood, Sara Delamont
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Customer Relationship Marketing in Martial Arts

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2021
The present paper reviews good practices in modern management and marketing for sports clubs, especially in the Martial Arts. Objectives: to study how modern management and especially marketing should impact the development of martial arts clubs in ...
Corneliu Miron
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Instituting Reality in Martial Arts Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores the relations between the desire for reality in martial arts training and the inevitable emergence of institutional styles. It argues that since at least the time of Bruce Lee’s influential 1971 article ‘Liberate Yourself From ...
Paul Bowman, Bowman, Paul
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Limits of Understanding in the Study of Lost Martial Arts

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
The paper is organised around the notion of embodied technique. The recent attempts to formulate scientific methodologies for the reconstruction of medieval fighting techniques based on a study of premodern fight books raise questions about the epistemological status of these (re)constructed techniques developed by modern practitioners of Historical ...
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The Japanization of Karate?: Placing an Intangible Cultural Practice

open access: yes, 2012
Although Okinawa is now under the political administration of Japan, its history has been shaped under the influence of Chinese, Japanese and, most recently, American military domination.
Johnson, Noah C.G.
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3D Human Pose Estimation in Vietnamese Traditional Martial Art Videos

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Engineering and Computation, 2019
Preserving, maintaining and teaching traditional martial arts are very important activities in social life. That helps preserve national culture, exercise and self-defense for practitioners.
Thanh Tuong Nguyen   +4 more
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Self-Control, Aggression and Bullying of Martial Arts Practitioners and Non-Martial Arts Practitioners: A Comparative Study and Factor Analysis

open access: yes, 2023
Background and Study Aim: Bullying is a common phenomenon among adolescents and can significantly affect their physical and mental health. Practicing martial arts to reduce bullying has been put forward publicly.
Li, Hansen   +4 more
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Making martial arts history matter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper examines key ways in which ideas such as ‘tradition’, ‘authenticity’, and ‘history’ are deployed in discourses around Asian martial arts. First introducing how such concepts are used in national contexts such as Korea and elsewhere in East ...
Bowman, Paul
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Sports skills in martial arts

open access: yesВестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки, 2018
The article analyzes the concepts of "skill" and "sport skills", which are studied in the framework of various theories: psychology, acmeology, theory of activity, axiology.
Olga V. Yusupova, Alexander D. Voronin
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