Writing up some orc culture.
I need actual martial arts (any culture; preferably more than one), both armed and unarmed, that center around force, endurance, and over-powering your enemy. Like, the opposite of fencing.
Writing up some orc culture
Jaxson Lewis
Liam Jones
Look at African hunter cultures like the Fula or the Wodaabe. Classical and ancient cultures like Galatians and Scythians might also work
Zachary King
youtube.com
Kyokushin karate
It's the hardest form of karate, you train like hell to build up your endurance, strength and willpower and utilize that to the maximum for the most powerful punches and kicks. Not much grappling and such if that's what you're looking for and no weapons, but I love it for what it is.
Ryder Phillips
The looks retarded, but I'm sure it hurts
Kayden Butler
Interesting to say the least; perhaps a shade too primitive however. I'll deff be giving the Galatians and Scythians a once-over at least.
I'm sure that heel-kick hurts like hell, but that really looks like a super niche style.
Angel Jackson
dropping orcs
Lucas Wright
Use Glima. Viking martial arts. It looks retarded as a sport. That means you know it helped them kill tonnes of people.
Owen Edwards
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Wyatt Allen
sumo
Jack Foster
all karate is retarded
Justin Roberts
Orc does not need culture. Only nature.
philipsibbering.com
Angel Campbell
Yeah, head-on grappling is pretty high on my list. When you're bigger, or at least as-big-as at minimum, to all of your opponents there's no reason to not just grab them and slam them.
Adam Morgan
Many races of orc in my setting actually do have a generally animistic-ish religion, and are much more one-with-nature than any other dominant species (other than the animals themselves; it's a fairly primitive setting).
Angel Sanchez
this stuff: youtube.com
Caleb Myers
Krav Maga
Kayden Gray
I too always enjoyed the idea of orcs very heavily focusing on grappling/throwing as an unarmed martial art culture. It makes sense. Orcs often very physical as a culture, a wrestling is probably the most physical you can get without dipping to much in pajama fighting. Throw togethrr greako with sumo and judo and its basicly orc combat sport heaven.
Parker Rogers
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Matthew Cruz
Pankration.
Samuel Cook
bump
Adam Allen
Kyokushinfag here
It's the only martial art I have personal experience with. It is about strength, endurance and willpower, the most powerful strikes and the greatest resilience are sought.
Then again, every martial art has its own things. I could definately see orcs as wrestlers and there's many styles for that.
I could see a setting where orcs are very martial-minded and train in lots of unarmed combat styles, with different tribes having different preferences - some prefer down on the ground wrestling, some prefer knockdowns and disabling the opponent, some prefer just beating the shit out of them on two feet.
Ryder Ramirez
Muay Thai. It doesn't have quite the feel you were asking for, but its brutal enough to fit orcs in my opinion.
Ryan Butler
Consider Hung Gar. It's what earthbending in Avatar was based off of and revolves around standing your ground and becoming immovable