Martialarts describes bodies of codified practices or traditions of unarmed and armed combat, often with the goal of developing both the character of the practitioner as well as the mindful, appropriate, controlled use of bodily force.
The martialarts, due to a century of exaggerated, exoticized portrayals in popular media (see orientalism), has been inextricably bound in the Western imagination to East Asian cultures and people, but it would be incorrect to say the martialarts are unique to Asia.
As part of the response to sport martialarts, new forms of competition are being held such as the Ultimate Fighting Champions in the U.S. or Pancrase in Japan which are also known as mixed martialarts or MMA events.
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