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2. Revgear - Wikipedia

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   The company is headquartered in Van Nuys, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, with over 21 years experience of being a leading supplier of martial arts supplies and equipment to martial arts schools, organizations, and direct consumers. The company was founded in July 1996 by Paul Reavlin, [1] a CPA and Krav Maga First Degree ...

3. CV Productions, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   CV Productions, Inc., is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based mixed martial arts company, founded in 1979. It is considered the first MMA based company in the United States and responsible for creating the blueprint for modern mixed martial arts competition.

4. Martial arts - Wikipedia

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   Many other Indian martial arts such as Mardhani Khel and Paika Akhada survived by practitioners practicing the art in secret, or by telling the colonial authorities that it was a form of dance. While many regional Indian martial arts forms are fading into obscurity, martial arts such as Gatka and Kalaripayattu are experiencing a gradual ...

5. Karate in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 1946 Robert Trias, a returning U.S. Navy veteran, began teaching private lessons in Phoenix, Arizona. [9] Other early teachers of karate in America were Ed Parker (a native Hawaiian and Coast Guard veteran who earned a black belt in 1953), [10] George Mattson (who began studying while stationed in Okinawa in 1956), and Peter Urban (a Navy veteran who started training while stationed in ...

6. Krav Maga - Wikipedia

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   The term krav maga in Hebrew is literally translated as 'contact combat' – the three letter root of the first word is q-r-b (קרב), and the noun derived from this root means either "combat" or "battle", [14] [15] while the second word is a participle form derived from the verb root n-g-‘ (נגע), that literally means either "contact" or "touch".

7. Outline of martial arts - Wikipedia

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   The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to martial arts: Martial arts – systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. While they may be studied for various reasons, martial arts share a single objective: to physically defeat other persons and to defend oneself or others from physical threat.

8. Hand-to-hand combat - Wikipedia

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   In the U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) replaced the Marine Corps LINE combat system in 2002. Each Marine keeps a record book that records their training, and a colored belt system (tan, gray, green, brown, and black in order of precedence) is used to denote experience and skill level, similar to many Asian martial arts.

9. Full contact karate - Wikipedia

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   Protective equipment used is boxing gloves and often foot-pads, shin pads, and amateur boxing helmets. It had its origin when Joe Lewis, a traditional Shorin Ryu black belt, was disappointed with scoring in point karate and wanted to prove martial artists could fight to a knockout. For his role in promoting and organizing the first full contact ...