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From: Brendan O'Donnell <brenda02@sprynet.com>
To: fanfic@fanfic.com
Subject: Re: Fw: [FFML] [R1/2][Essay] What is Anything Goes Martial Arts?
Date: Monday, November 25, 1996 12:30 AM

 Didn't Japanese styles come from China? Heck, all >martial arts came

from

 India or so the stories say.

The legend says that the first martial arts where brought >from India to

China by a Bhuddist monk named Bodhidhrama who went when >he heard that 
the Chinese were teaching an inncorrect form of Bhuddism. >It is quite 
likely that he first practiced Kalaripayit or one of it's >forebears. 

  
	The story as I recall is that the monk came teaching the Zen form of 
Budism.  He came to the Shaolin temple and taught the monks but saw that

they 

were too out of shape to meditate properly.  So he taught the monks a

series of 

exercises based on animal movements and the fighting techniques he had

learned 

in his own past.

The legend I heard was an Indian Prince was traveling through China and he
encountered many theives. So he told his men to study different types of
animals and to devise some fighting systems to fend off the attackers.