Deadly Greek Fighting Techniques
When most people think of martial arts, the first region that comes to mind is Asia. This is totally understandable; that continent is after all where many of the world’s most popular fighting arts originated.
Asia’s list of fighting styles and hand-to-hand combat disciplines seems without end: This is where Karate, Judo, Taekwondo, Jiu Jitsu, and many other styles came from.
But although Asia seems to dominate the world of fighting styles, Greece could in fact be credited with creating one of the oldest forms of martial arts in existence. This style is called Pankration. As it happens, it is still practiced by fighting devotees today, and it has helped shaped many of the other fighting styles around the world.
You’ll find that much of the world’s best hand-to-hand combat and fighting styles are very similar to the Greek fighting techniques. In fact, the Greek techniques often rival the others!
Pankration uses a combination of many different techniques that are also commonly used in other fighting styles, such as boxing, wrestling, striking and kicking. It is also here where techniques such as joint locking and the use of pressure points first came into widespread use.
When fighting an opponent, drawing the focus away from physical strength (or even completely disregarding it) is something that many martial art forms have in common.
Many Greek fighting techniques however rely on a considerable degree of strength. Grappling and striking techniques are good examples of these.
Even the name of the Greek fighting style refers to strength. Pankration is formed from two Greek words: “Pan” refers to “all,” “kratos” refers to “force” or “strength.”
Today, a modified versions of Pankration are being practiced. In some cases it’s more like kickboxing hybrid and less like the fighting art that was used in ancient Greece.
There is also some degree of blurring with the highly popular competitive sporting event that is known as mixed martial arts. Many mixed martial arts techniques actually stem from the Greek fighting techniques of the earliest days of Pankration.
All the same, this ancient Greek fighting style still survives to this day in different forms, since various fighting styles have adopted its techniques. There are even efforts to try and make Pankration part of the Olympics again.
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