It is a martial art form by the Cossack people from the 16th century with light and quick footwork and impressive jump. The attacks are mainly pressing and releasing the opponent’s vital points, such as the neck, after throwing down the opponent to the ground. It was systematized and codified by Volodymyr Pylat in 1985 and is being taken as a national martial art with the independence of Ukraine in 1991.

This weapon-based martial art form is said to have originated from New Zealand. Furthermore, this combat form has been developed within the Maori community. There are a few schools that teach Mau Rakau on Mokoia Island. According to the cultural history of New Zealand, Mau Rakau is said to have been developed within the Maori community. Apparently, the weapons such as “Taiaha” and “Patu” were supposed to have been gifted to the community by “Tane” the God of forest and “Tu” the God of War, the sons of Rangi-nui and Papatuanuku according to Maori mythology. The Matarua Federation of Traditional Maori Martial Arts is promoting Mau Rakau by opening a tournament and organizing events.

Mbe`ere is a traditional wrestling in Ghana. The techniques involve grabbing, pulling, lifting, throwing, locking the opponent’s limbs, etc. However, grabbing the genitals, strangling, and biting are forbidden. The fights can be violent and keep until one will be floored. There is no formal ranking or grading system, but the winners receive respect from their peers and the elders. The Gurune people of the Upper East Region of Ghana are traditionally farmers and shepherds. The elders recall that decades ago, Cattle grazing was the job of the young men within the clans. On the grazing fields, they induced the cattle to fight, after which the shepherd boys themselves engaged each other in Wrestling as a means to determine roles and share their food, which they pooled together every morning. In the fields, the winners always shad the best part and larger quantities of the food, and assumed the supervising roles leaving the losers to do the actual work of attending to the animals. The philosophy became established that the strong lead whiles the weak do the work. The strong get the best parts in life while the weak struggle. This is to motivate the weak to strive in the face of all odds to get stronger. When the colonial veterinary services introduced vaccination for the cattle and other animals, all the clans would assemble their herds and move to the vaccination center several kilometers from their homes. The vaccination took several days and to kill time the shepherd boys took to wrestling between clans. Much later, the communities started wrestling between themselves thus begun inter-community wrestling for social entertainment. Mbe`rer is still practiced in many traditional Gurune communities purely for entertainment but the inter-community competitions have become very rare.

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art, characterized by its emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques. Beginning in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II and the Japanese Occupation, new martial arts schools called 'Kwan' opened in Seoul. These schools were established by Korean martial artists with backgrounds in (mostly) Japanese and Chinese martial arts. At the time, indigenous disciplines (such as Taekkyeon) were all but forgotten, due to years of decline and repression by the Japanese colonial government. The umbrella term traditional Taekwondo typically refers to the martial arts practiced by the kwans during the 1940s and 1950s, though in reality the term "Taekwondo" had not yet been coined at that time, and indeed each Kwan(school) was practicing its own unique fighting style. In 1952, South Korean President Lee Seung-man witnessed a martial arts demonstration by ROK officer Choi Hong-hi and Nam Tae-hi from the 29th Infantry Division. He misrecognized the technique on display as Taekkyeon, and urged martial arts to be introduced to the army under a single system. Beginning in 1955 the leaders of the kwans began discussing in earnest the possibility of creating a unified Korean martial art. Until then, Tang Soo Do was used to name Korean Karate, using the Korean hanja pronunciation of the Japanese kanji (唐手道). The name Tae Soo Do (跆手道) was also used to describe a unified style of Korean martial arts. This name consists of the hanja 跆(tae) "to stomp, trample", 手(su) "hand", and 道(do) "way, discipline". Choi Hong-hi advocated the use of the name Tae Kwon Do, i.e. replacing 手(su) "hand" with 拳(kwon or gwon) "fist", the term also used for "martial arts" in Chinese 'Quán'. The name was also the closest to the pronunciation of Taekkyeon, in accordance with the views of the president. The new name was initially slow to catch on among the leaders of the kwans. During this time Taekwondo was also adopted for use by the South Korean military, which increased its popularity among civilian martial arts schools. In 1959 the Korea Taekwondo Association or KTA (then-Korea Tang Soo Do Association) was established to facilitate the unification of Korean martial arts. General Choi, of the Oh Do Kwan, wanted all the other member kwans of the KTA to adopt his own Chan Hon-style of Taekwondo, as a unified style. This was, however, met with resistance as the other kwans instead wanted a unified style to be created based on inputs from all the kwans, to serve as a way to bring on the heritage and characteristics of all of the styles, not just the style of a single kwan. As a response to this, along with disagreements about teaching Taekwondo in North Korea and unifying the whole Korean Peninsula, Choi broke with the KTA in 1966, in order to establish the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF)— a separate governing body devoted to institutionalizing his own style of Taekwondo in Canada. Initially, the South Korean president, having close ties to General Choi, gave General Choi's ITF limited support. However, the South Korean government wished to avoid North Korean influence on the martial art. Conversely, ITF president Choi Hong-hi sought support for his style of Taekwondo from all quarters, including North Korea. In response, in 1972 South Korea withdrew its support for the ITF. The ITF continued to function as an independent federation, then headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Choi continued to develop the ITF-style, notably with the 1983 publication of his Encyclopedia of Taekwondo. After Choi's retirement, the ITF split in 2001 and then again in 2002 to create three separate federations each of which continues to operate today under the same name. In 1972 the KTA and the South Korean government's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism established the Kukkiwon as the new national academy for Taekwondo. Kukkiwon now serves many of the functions previously served by the KTA, in terms of defining a government-sponsored unified style of Taekwondo. In 1973 the KTA and Kukkiwon supported the establishment of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF, renamed to World Taekwondo in 2017 due to confusion with the initialism) to promote the sportive side of Kukki-Taekwondo. WT competitions employ Kukkiwon-style Taekwondo. For this reason, Kukkiwon-style Taekwondo is often referred to as WT-style Taekwondo, sport-style Taekwondo, or Olympic-style Taekwondo, though in reality the style is defined by the Kukkiwon, not the WT. Since 2000, Taekwondo has been one of only two Asian martial arts (the other being judo) that are included in the Olympic Games. It started as a demonstration event at the 1988 games in Seoul, a year after becoming a medal event at the Pan Am Games, and became an official medal event at the 2000 games in Sydney. In 2010, Taekwondo was accepted as a Commonwealth Games sport.

In Hebrew, Krav Maga means “contact combat”, and it is self-defense with the practical counterattack. It is a modern martial art created with an emphasis on displaying the best efficiency needed for survival in a real crisis and aims for martial arts that are easy to teach and learn. If other martial arts compete for strength and skill under equal conditions of each opponent, Krav Maga aims to overcome the situation in which is placed at a disadvantage. Thanks to the conscription system, all Israeli citizens(including women) who are obliged to serve two to three years in the military are learning basic Krav Maga skills. Imrich “Imi” Lichtenfeld(אימריך “אימי” ליכטנפלד), the founder of Krav Maga, is a Hungarian Jew who has done various sports, including boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics. His father, then a police officer, was also teaching other police officers self-defense techniques, so he learned practical techniques from his father and organized these factors to develop Krav Maga. He began instructing Jews living in Bratislava against war and fascism. When Israel was founded, he moved to Israel and served as a senior instructor at the Israeli military and police. After retirement, he taught Krav Maga to ordinary citizens, and this martial art became widely known.

Vo Co Truyen uses the principles of Yin Yang and mutuality to explain the effects of the attack, defense, counterattack, and transformations of powerful moves. That is, taking the theory of mutuality to say the biochemistry of the right moves together. King Hung (2879 BC) is the founder of Vo Co Truyen. The chairman of the council and ministers signed a determination to form the Vietnam Traditional Martial Arts Federation in 1991. The Federation is researching and restoring the Vo Co Truyen with the help of the state.

Mall-yuddha or Malla-kridha is the traditional South Asian form of combat-wrestling, today is commonly known as ‘Kushti’ in India. Word ‘mall’ in Sanskrit means "wrestler" or "fighter" and yuddha means "combat." Thus, ‘mall-yuddha’ literally means “wrestling combat”, and ‘mall’ or ‘malla’ in its origin was a title awarded to fierce and courageous fighters. Mall-yuddha is the combat version while Mall-krida is the sport version. Matches were traditionally codified into four types which progressed from purely sportive contests of strength to actual full-contact fights known as Yuddha. Malla-yuddha incorporates grappling, joint-breaking, punching, biting, choking, and pressure point striking. It is divided into four styles, each named after Hindu gods and legendary fighters: - Hanumanti concentrates on technical superiority while - Bhimaseni focuses on sheer strength. - Jambuvanti uses locks and holds to force the opponent into submission, - Jarasandhi concentrates on breaking the limbs and joints. Due to the extreme violence, this final form is generally no longer practiced. The second form, wherein the wrestlers attempt to lift each other off the ground for three seconds, still exists in south India. Mallyuddha in South Asia has a history of at least 5000 years making it the oldest known codified form of fighting in the region. Competitions held for entertainment were popular among all social classes, with even kings and other royalty taking part. Wrestlers represented their kings in matches between rival kingdoms; deathmatches before the royal court served as a way to settle disputes and avoid large-scale wars. As such, professional wrestlers were held in high regard. In pastoral communities, people would even wrestle against steers. Traditional Indian wrestling first began to decline in the north after the medieval Muslim invasions when influences from Persian wrestling were incorporated into native malla-yuddha. Under the Mughal rule, courtly fashion favoured the Persianate pehlwani style. Traditional malla-yuddha remained popular in the south, however, and was particularly common in the Vijayanagara Empire. The descendants of the Jyesti clan continued to practice their ancestral arts of malla-yuddha and vajra-musti into the 1980s but rarely do so today. Mallayuddha has survived in south India however, and can still be seen in Karnataka and pockets of Tamil Nadu today.

The fighting art of tang soo do is believed to have originated 2,000 years ago during Korea's Three Kingdoms period. Silla, the smallest and least populated region of the peninsula, was under constant attack from the larger and more powerful Baekje and Goguryeo kingdoms. After a few centuries, the Silla rulers are believed to have allied themselves with a skilled fighting force created by the Tang dynasty monarchs of China (618-907). It was then that the tang soo warriors were born. Their combat system was a combination of a traditional Chinese art known as the “Tang method” and a set of powerful kicks native to Korea. In the middle period, following Korean independence in 1945, the Korean political leader was concerned about establishing Korean values based on Korean nationalism. At the beginning of the modern era of the Korean martial arts, Tang Soo Do was the most popular term for these arts, however, the political leaders at that time were opposed to the use of the name Tang Soo Do for the art, as it sounded like Chinese martial art, because it could be representing the Chinese Tang Dynasty. In 1964, a government-sponsored small group created a new name for the Korean martial arts: Tae Kwon Do. Meanwhile, Tang Soo Do has kept traditional. Grandmaster Hwang Kee just followed his own path. This was the path of traditional martial arts so as to preserve history. That is the history of what the Western world came to know as Korean Karate.

The police martial arts is a mix of Taekwondo, Hapkido, Gumdo, Jiu-jitsu, MMA, and Boxing including self-defense and arrest techniques. In addition to the liberation of Korea on 15 August 1945, the U.S. Military Government opened the Police Training Center(later renamed as the National Police Academy in 1946) in Seoul on 13 September, recruiting and training approximately 2,000 officers. That was the first democratic police education in Korea. On 12 June 1949, the Police Academy taught arrest-techniques in the technical course, and this has been developed as the police martial arts education. As the Korean National Police University was opened in 1981, the academy installed the department of Martialism and educate the students in taekwondo, hapkido, judo, kendo, and arrest-techniques. The National Police Agency is focusing its efforts on the distribution of unified and systematic arrest-techniques to all police officers by training police martial arts instructors collectively and distributing "police basic arrest-techniques" to police stations nationwide.

Thang-Ta is a unique traditional martial art and a martial education of India which is originated from Manipur, a tiny state in northeast India. Thang-Ta integrates the arts of Thang(sword), Ta(spear), Sharit-Sharak(unarmed combat), Sajen Kanglon(physical exercise), Thengouron(spiritual arts), Ningsha Kanglon(breathing exercise), Layeng Kanglon(natural medicinal education), Hirikonba(medication), and other vital arts of warfare. The actual system Lallup(a group of military forces) was introduced during the reign of King Loyumba(1074-1122 AD). King Punshiba(1404-1432 AD) introduced the permanent and professional military department called Shingchep Meira Haijouroi. King Pamheiba(1709-1748 AD) strengthens and upgraded the Lallup system. Under this system every male above 16 years served the state voluntarily as duty ten days in forty days, therefore each individual person served the state some 90 days in a year. They performed their duties for the state and trained Thang-Ta martial arts as an important subject of physical exercise. Hence every person was compelled by himself to have Thang-Ta martial art training. Today Thang-Ta has emerged as a very popular martial art game in India and attained recognition in the realm of national and international. The Manipuri Thang-Ta, replete with unique forms of fights, naturally evolved against the warlike background of the ancient kingdom. Many thrilling combat demonstrations and performing arts of Thang-Ta which are exotic and display-oriented had been displayed at various cultural centers and functions in different countries of the world.

Vovinam was born and has evolved out of Vietnam's history of anticolonial resistance. Major techniques are focused on attacking the necks of fast cavalry soldiers and armored infantrymen, the invading forces. Vovinam was founded in 1938 by Nguyễn Lộc (1912 – 1960) with the intention of providing people an efficient technique of self-defense after a short period of study. The first school of Vovinam outside of Vietnam was established in Houston, Texas in 1976 by Vietnamese emigrants. By the year 2000, Vovinam schools had been established in various countries like Australia, Canada, Belgium, France, Spain, and so on.

It is a Venezuelan martial art that involves machete, stick-fighting, and knife fencing. The name is relative to the city of El Tocuyo, southwest of the Lara state, the starting point of the colonization. It can be taken into consideration that the origin of this game came from the mixtures given at the time of the conquest. Since several cultures were brought from far away, only the strongest of those was survived and some fighting techniques originated or became known during the conquest struggles, when they fought with everything they could, in order to obtain precious independence. Then since being an independent nation, some martial arts and games were brought by the European migrant practitioners mainly from Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands. They had similar forms to Garrote Larense, such as the Cuchillo Siciliano, Makila Vasca, Jogo do Pao, Juego del Palo. And it is very likely that these people have met masters of Garrote Larense, sharing techniques and experiences, and influencing this art.

Uzbek Jang San’ati, founded by Mr. Abbos Usmanov, is the modern kind of the Temurids martial arts, which is based on the best methods and techniques of traditional martial arts such as “Temurids martial arts”, “Qol sanati”, “Kurash”,“Seven-elbow”, and embodies the centuries old tradition of martial arts of people of Uzbekistan, as well as the elements of most effective. The material evidence discovered as a result of archeological discoveries and scientific observations confirms that the history of the Uzbek martial arts has at least 3,500-4,000 years. Scientists have discovered Bactrian-era broken crockery depicting one of the two wrestling men throwing sweep throw in modern Surkhandarya (Uzbekistan) territory, proving that the single combats that existed 3,500 years ago were at a high level of development. In addition, descriptions of single combats can be found in all ancient legends, fairy tales, and other forms of oral traditions, such as legends "Khasan and Zukhra," folk epic "Alpomish," "Gorogli," "Avazkhon," and "Rustamkhon." The current Uzbek Jang Sanati martial art has been divided into 5 categories, there are sports, health, the art of hands, martial arts of Timurids(working with knife, sword, stick, spear) and Djang Kurash(Kurash fighting). Furthermore, one of the unique features of Uzbek Jang Sanati is that it is regarded as not only as a physical system but also patriotism and moral education.

Kurash is an ancient type of upright jacket-grappling that originated in the territory of modern Uzbekistan with about three thousand years of history. There is no groundwork, and only throws and leg sweeps can be used by players. All the actions are allowed only in standing position and any techniques using armlock, chocking, and kicking, as well as grips below the belt are prohibited. For three millenniums Kurash was limited within the borders of Central Asia. Techniques, traditions, rules, and philosophies of Kurash were verbally passed from generation to generation. And only in 1990, Komil Yusupov, the widely known Uzbek wrestler finished that kind of research on Kurash. He created the new universal rules for Kurash, which incorporated the best features of Kurash- thousands of years old philosophy of courage and humanism with the tight requirements of the modern sport. He introduced to Kurash weight categories, gestures, and terminology based on 13 Uzbek words, set a fixed duration of the bout, uniform for players and referees, and everything.

Muay Thai evolved from the older Muay Boran(ancient boxing), an unarmed combat method that was used by Siamese soldiers when they lose their weapons in battle. Muay Thai techniques are the efficient use of the entire body movement, rotating hip, fists, feet, knees, and elbows harmoniously and effectively both in the attack and defense. The performance will start with Wai Kru(the pre-fight ritual dance) for paying great respect to Muay Thai teachers. Wai Kru also serves for both physically and mentally warm-up before the actual fight. Then the five main techniques in Muay Thai as well as the five out of fifteen styles in Mae Mai Muay Thai will be introduced. After that, the actual fight will begin. The Thais originally lived in southwest China. In the 9th century, the Thais migrated in groups to the area now known as northwest Thailand. The slow emigration lasted until the 13th century, and many conflicts with neighboring tribes occurred. During the wars weapons such as swords, lances, and knives were used. This particular type of martial art in combination with weapons is still being taught under the name Krabi Krabong. If the weapons were lost during the conflict, fighting continued with bare hands, and this was the beginning of Muay Thai. The kingdom of Ayuthaya was founded in 1350. However, in 1767, it burned down to the ground by the Burmese. That is why many details and the history of Muay Thai remain vague.