Worlds rarest martial art styles

I don't know if a thread like this has already been made or not but I'm really interested in rare martial art styles. The ones that not many people practice world wide so if anyone knows anything please post.

 

check out the sipalki thread in the HKD forum. also, i think yaw yan was pretty rare. don't know much about that though.

 

Remember kids, some styles may be rare for good reasons

 

duck style kung fu, saw it on a really old vid, doubt it exists anymore

 

Turtle style kung fu.

 

When I was a kid I witnessed chicken style kung fu...

Might have been a slow day in the development of CMA as all the best animals (Tiger, Dragon, Snake, Panther, Phoenix, etc.) had already been taken.

 

Rare styles from Scary Movie 2
MPAA:Rated R Procede With Caution
length 1:10 Min


http://youtube.com/watch?v=FiqpUl1kb3E

lol Enjoy ​

 

I take it you say that because they're ineffective in combat.

Well that's not a good reason,

 

what do you mean ineffective??? haven't you ever seen duck-style kung fu'ers evading headshots?

 

I once saw REAL TKD done by a couple of ROK guys, haven't seen anything like it ever since.

 

I can imagine. I bet that was interesting too.

I would think that there are a lot of rare CMA styles out there. Consider the impact of the Cultural Revolution and it's not hard to understand why some rare styles might have become even more rare or extinct.

 

I know you are joking an all but the first mention of Fajing in writing, was done by a Hsingyi person on the Fighting Chicken(rooster). It was found in a old statue. That is all I remember of the document. That an the why in regards to Fajing and the chicken, it relates to the fact a chicken aligns its hole body except its legs when it strikes. When they peck you the mark is often left for years on the skin. In the original system of Chicken they had a bunch of kicking as well, it is said that in the Wudang systems kicking is based on the chicken systems approach. Legends!!?!!

Six Elbow, is a very rare system of Kung Fu. One of the people from China moved to Kansas City that practiced and that is how I meet someone that studied it. Not sure how many practice it. It was featured in one of the Kung Fu magazines not sure which. Well if I had to guess less than a two hundred study the system.

Several styles of Mizongquan are considered rear systems.

 

Come on guys.....



Real styles (traditional) please, the ones that helped make todays martial arts but you don't hear much of anymore.

 

as i said, sipalki and yaw yan.

also, muay boran, okinawa-te.

 

Muay Boran? I thought that was quite a well known martial art.

 

Turtle style is a real art. Sometime, when i get a chance, I'll post a vid.

 

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well then, you can just go to your local sports centre and i'm sure it'll be bristling with muay boran classes, eh? muay boran and okinawa-te, are known generally only as the precursors to muay thai and karate, but ask nay random person in the street what muay boran or okinawa-te are and 99%* of the time you'll get a wtf look out of them.

*65% of all statistics are made up on the spot

 

Okinawa Te (Hand of Okinawa)refers to any current Okinawan karate (Shorin Ryu, Goju Ryu, etc). It is not a style unto itself (or, at least not at this time).

 

In terms of generic arts, Lethwei, Bando and Banshay have found their way around the world, but I would still consider them to be rare.