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Knocking and kicking (or yuna onse [1]) is a little-known traditional African-American dance-like martial art, arguably practiced clandestinely in parts of the Southern US and on the Sea Islands. Music and acrobatic movements made knocking and kicking inseparable from dance.
In West Central Africa, martial arts naturally take the form of dance. In Bantu culture, dance is an integral part of daily life. People danced while working, playing, praying, mourning, and celebrating. In Congo-Angola, dance is intricately linked to song, music, and ritual, and even incorporated into wartime preparations and battles. [11]
Martial arts can be grouped by type or focus, or alternatively by regional origin. This article focuses on the latter grouping of these unique styles of martial arts. For Hybrid martial arts, as they originated from the late 19th century and especially after 1950, it may be impossible to identify unique or predominant regional origins. It is ...
Dambe is a martial art of the Hausa people from Nigeria. [1] Competitors in a typical match aim to subdue each other into total submission mostly within three rounds. It often results in serious bodily injury.