COMBAT SPORTS
CONTENTS
WHAT IS COMBAT SPORTS?
HISTORY
WHAT IS COMBAT SPORTS?
A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a competitive contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat. In many combat sports, a contestant wins by scoring more points than the opponent or by disabling the opponent. A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a competitive contact sport that involves one-to-one combat. Each combatant strives to gain enough points or a condition to declare a single winner by means of using certain rules of direct engagement. These engagement rules and conditions are significantly different from the rules in simulated contact or combat meant for technical-based challenges, practice, or demonstration in martial arts, typically with the aim of simulating parts of real hand to hand combat through kata and self-defense training. Boxing, kickboxing, amateur wrestling, judo, mixed martial arts, Muay Thai and Swordsmanship are examples of combat sports. Combat sports share a long pedigree with the martial arts.
HISTORY
The history of combat sports, such as grappling, wrestling, and boxing, seem to reach back even before the beginning of recorded history. Egyptian depictions of wrestlers at Beni Hasan, shown below, date back to at least 2000 BC. Throughout history, human beings have developed different techniques to protect themselves from external threats, greatly influencing their development through culture, society, population traits and the geopolitical environment in which they were found. Other sources, such as the the ancient literary work the Epic of Gilgamesh, provide even earlier testimonies of the existence of combat sports. Pitting one man’s strength and skill against that of another has been an apparent form of conflict resolution for millennia. From wild wrestling in ancient Mesopotamia to structured grappling in medieval Ireland, the history of combat sports seems to spread across nearly every continent throughout history. 토토사이트웹
