Martial Art

A form of exercise derived from or forming a codified style of physical combat

Description (Specifications)

Martial Arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defense; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

History & Background (Dossier)

A Martial Art may be practiced for the purposes of Combat, Physical Health or Spiritual Wellbeing. These various focuses will change over time - by definition each Martial Art will have its institution in some form of self-defence, but once the social conditions that required such a combative response alter, the other reasons come to the fore.

Various forms of Martial Art are found in Human, Aslan and Vargr societies. Droyne Warrior Caste combat techniques do not appear to be taught as a tradition and neither K'Kree nor Hiver societies view combat as an art form.

Various minor races (but not all) have developed similar concepts.

See also

Library Data Referral Tree

Cultural Mores

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• Cultural Mores
  • Aeonic Stability
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Big Nine
  • Chimera Species
  • Cloning
  • Computer
  • Cultural Affinity
  • Eugenics
  • First Contact
  • Gentlesophonce
  • Martial Arts
  • Megastructure
  • Metempsychosis
  • Panet Relationship
  • Relict Regeneration
  • Robotics
  • Six Races
  • Slavery
  • Synthetics
  • Traveller Gene
  • Uplift
  • Winkle

• List of Martial Arts

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Martial_art. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Loren Wiseman. "Suggestions for Martial Arts Combat." Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 19 (1984): 43-46.
• Author : BackworldTraveller
• Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science