Serbovia
Establishing Nation
We still have more important topics of shared history to work out, but the thought of starting a thread on our world's existing martial arts occurred to me as an enthusiast of the topic and as I intend to do some martial arts-related RP with Serbovia.
In real life, a lot of countries have an extremely rich history of their own arts which is often intertwined in the history and culture of those countries. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is trending globally today and wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Carlos and Helio Gracie learning judo from Japanese immigrants to Brazil and building up from there. Muay Thai developed in Thailand over hundreds of years, is now probably one of best known symbols of the country to westerners and actually a huge source of soft power for the Thai government. And of course, there are the traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean martial arts and a host of other disciplines from different countries.
Do we have equivalents of the aforementioned East Asian martial arts traditions around?
Where did modern-style boxing originate?
What about classic Greco-Roman wrestling? (Pelasgian-Tiburan wrestling?)
Are there equivalents of the various different styles combining kicks and boxing technique? (eg. styles like Muay Thai, Sanda (Chinese), Lethwei (Burmese), Savate (French), an equivalent of Western style kickboxing which RL more or less originated from karate being combined with boxing technique)
MMA I imagine would exist in our world, but we don't have a single global leading country of pop culture and entertainment like the US is, so I find it unlikely that there's an UFC equivalent around. Probably, there are forms of mixed martial arts using different rule sets and national or regional promotions.
Also, throwing some Serbovian martial arts stuff in the thread:
Samor, abbreviated from the Serbovian term Samoodbrana bez oružja (Self-defense without weapons), is the official Serbovian national martial art. The system was developed in the 1940s originally as a combatives training program of the Serbovian military. Major Milan Vrebac, the progenitor of the system, studied Serbovian wrestling and grappling tradition, contemporary boxing and foreign grappling disciplines to develop the original system. During the early years of Social-Nationalist rule, the regime decided to promote the system as a national Serbovian martial art and sports rules were devised.
Sports Samor typically allows kicking, punching, elbow and knee strikes, takedowns, holds, chokes and locks. A bout is won by a knockout, technical knockout, submission or points decision by the referees. Practitioners wear a training jacket, grappling gloves, headgear and shin, groin and tooth guards. Sports Samor is popular in Serbovia as a spectator sport, and champions of All-Serbovian Samor Championship are well-known celebrities. In addition, there is a street self-defense version of the sport in existence. Official use of force systems of Serbovian law enforcement and state security organs are heavily based on Samor.
(Inspired by IRL Sambo)
Free fighting or Slobodna Borba is a more recent invention of the turn of the Millennium. Its origins are in Samor-based fighting bouts where the jacket, headgear and shin guards were removed from the ruleset, and in competitive events pitting practitioners of different martial arts against each other. Since then, it has evolved into its own distinctive martial art and attained growing popularity in Serbovia. A more recent phenomenon has been professional Samor fighters making the move to free fighting promotions.
(Basically Serbovian MMA)
Turnir, derived from the Serbovian word for a tournament or joust, originated from demonstrative fights done as part of Medieval re-enactment in the 1990s. Today, it is a competitive contact fighting sport with techniques typically based on preserved historical sword fighting and grappling manuals from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period. Practicioners wear historically accurate armor and use blunted swords and other period-accurate weapons in single and team bouts. Though a fringe sport, it has been increasing in popularity and started to spread to foreign countries as well.
(Inspired by Buhurt and other forms of Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)
In real life, a lot of countries have an extremely rich history of their own arts which is often intertwined in the history and culture of those countries. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is trending globally today and wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Carlos and Helio Gracie learning judo from Japanese immigrants to Brazil and building up from there. Muay Thai developed in Thailand over hundreds of years, is now probably one of best known symbols of the country to westerners and actually a huge source of soft power for the Thai government. And of course, there are the traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean martial arts and a host of other disciplines from different countries.
Do we have equivalents of the aforementioned East Asian martial arts traditions around?
Where did modern-style boxing originate?
What about classic Greco-Roman wrestling? (Pelasgian-Tiburan wrestling?)
Are there equivalents of the various different styles combining kicks and boxing technique? (eg. styles like Muay Thai, Sanda (Chinese), Lethwei (Burmese), Savate (French), an equivalent of Western style kickboxing which RL more or less originated from karate being combined with boxing technique)
MMA I imagine would exist in our world, but we don't have a single global leading country of pop culture and entertainment like the US is, so I find it unlikely that there's an UFC equivalent around. Probably, there are forms of mixed martial arts using different rule sets and national or regional promotions.
Also, throwing some Serbovian martial arts stuff in the thread:
Samor, abbreviated from the Serbovian term Samoodbrana bez oružja (Self-defense without weapons), is the official Serbovian national martial art. The system was developed in the 1940s originally as a combatives training program of the Serbovian military. Major Milan Vrebac, the progenitor of the system, studied Serbovian wrestling and grappling tradition, contemporary boxing and foreign grappling disciplines to develop the original system. During the early years of Social-Nationalist rule, the regime decided to promote the system as a national Serbovian martial art and sports rules were devised.
Sports Samor typically allows kicking, punching, elbow and knee strikes, takedowns, holds, chokes and locks. A bout is won by a knockout, technical knockout, submission or points decision by the referees. Practitioners wear a training jacket, grappling gloves, headgear and shin, groin and tooth guards. Sports Samor is popular in Serbovia as a spectator sport, and champions of All-Serbovian Samor Championship are well-known celebrities. In addition, there is a street self-defense version of the sport in existence. Official use of force systems of Serbovian law enforcement and state security organs are heavily based on Samor.
(Inspired by IRL Sambo)
Free fighting or Slobodna Borba is a more recent invention of the turn of the Millennium. Its origins are in Samor-based fighting bouts where the jacket, headgear and shin guards were removed from the ruleset, and in competitive events pitting practitioners of different martial arts against each other. Since then, it has evolved into its own distinctive martial art and attained growing popularity in Serbovia. A more recent phenomenon has been professional Samor fighters making the move to free fighting promotions.
(Basically Serbovian MMA)
Turnir, derived from the Serbovian word for a tournament or joust, originated from demonstrative fights done as part of Medieval re-enactment in the 1990s. Today, it is a competitive contact fighting sport with techniques typically based on preserved historical sword fighting and grappling manuals from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period. Practicioners wear historically accurate armor and use blunted swords and other period-accurate weapons in single and team bouts. Though a fringe sport, it has been increasing in popularity and started to spread to foreign countries as well.
(Inspired by Buhurt and other forms of Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)
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