How To Training Martial Dance

Generally, there are 2 training sessions in martial dance.

1. Stretching

Begin your training with stretching exercise slowly.

2. Choreography Training

In martial dance club, there is belt rank system used to tell how many dance forms mastered by the student.

Each belt rank must mastering 1 new dance form. For example in Karate Kata, white belt must mastering form 2, yellow belt must mastering form 2, and black belts (masters) means they already mastering all 6 basic dance choreos.

Capoeira

African - Brazilian art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and kicks. Born of the melting pot of enslaved africans, indigenous brazilians and portuguese influences at the beginning of the 16th century.

Capoeira originated as a product of the Angolan tradition of "Engolo", a performance of ritual combat by various ethnic groups around the Cunene River in southern Angola.

Kenpo Kata

Japanese martial art dance art created in 6th century.

Kenpo was brought by buddhist monks from China in the middle of the 6th century.

The incorporation of Chinese Wushu and Kenpo also began here, Kata is an Japanese style of Taolu dance art.

Karate Kata

Okinawan martial dance art created in 13th century.

In 13th century, members of the Okinawan upper classes were sent to China regularly to study various new knowledges and arts.

The incorporation of Chinese Wushu and Karate also began here, Kata is an Okinawan style of Taolu dance art.

Pencak Silat

Malay countries martial dance art created between 14th – 15th century.

Around 14th-15th century, Chinese cultures also brought by missionary buddhist monks to Malay countries.

Including martial art, Wushu Taolu also developed by the Malay students and then new form of martial dance was born.

Taekwondo Poomsae

Korean martial dance art created in 1966.

International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) is an international Taekwondo organization founded on 1966 by Choi Hong Hi.

ITF was founded to promote all of Taekwondo styles, both fighting sport style and martial dance style.

Wushu Taolu

Oldest martial dance style created in Tang Dynasty China. A dance art which mix fighting moves both from northern Kungfu and southern Kuntao into it dance choreography.

The idea of mixing both fighting move and dance art as new form of exercise began since Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, descriptions of martial dances were wroten in poems by Li Bai. 

In the Song and Yuan dynasties, early form of Wushu Taolu contests were sponsored by the imperial courts. The modern concepts of Wushu Taolu we know today were fully developed by the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Fencing

Fencing traces its roots to the development of swordsmanship for duels and self defense.

The oldest surviving treatise on western fencing is the Royal Armouries Ms. I.33, also known as the Tower manuscript, written circa 1300 in present-day Germany.

Kenjutsu

Kenjutsu / Kendo is an umbrella term for all Japanese swordsmanship.

While swords clearly played an important cultural and religious role in ancient Japan,  in the Heian period the globally recognised curved Japanese sword (Katana) was developed and swords became important weapons and symbolic items.