Every martial art, classified.
154 styles across four families — striking, grappling, weapons, and hybrid — each with its origin, training focus, and lineage. Built on open data, classified editorially, no hype.
154 styles across four families — striking, grappling, weapons, and hybrid — each with its origin, training focus, and lineage. Built on open data, classified editorially, no hype.
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Every style is classified into one of four families and given its origin (where recorded), training focus, and lineage — plain facts, no hype, no “deadliest style” claims.
The taxonomy starts from Wikidata (CC0) and adds our own editorial classification. Where a fact like origin isn't recorded, we leave it blank rather than guess. See the numbers behind the dataset.
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