Powerful Greek Fighting Techniques

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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.

Karate, Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Taekwondothe list of fighting styles and hand-to-hand combat disciplines that originated from Asia is seemingly endless.

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.

The best fighting and hand-to-hand combative styles closely resemble Greek fighting techniques. If anything, the Greek techniques often rival many of the other styles.

Boxing, striking, kicking, and wrestling are common fighting techniques that Pankration shares with plenty of other fighting styles. Pankration also first brought joint locking, pressure points, and other techniques into widespread use.

There are many martial arts that draw focus away from-and in some cases even completely disregard-the use of strength as an effective fighting component.

However, lots of Greek fighting techniques rely on a great deal of strength. You need strength for grappling and striking techniques, for example.

Even the name Pankration is a reference to this being made up of the two Greek words "pan" and "kratos", which means "all", and "strength" or "force" respectively.

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.

Believe it or not, many of the mixed martial art modalities we see today actually stem from the early days of the Greek fighting techniques 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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