Thursday, September 29, 2011

Ancient Egypt, Martial Arts. E


F-1. A scene represents one of the throwing techniques, Nage-Waza 投げ技 in ancient Egypt.

There is a lot of evidence on the authenticity   of the martial art in ancient Egypt as it goes back to much earlier time than the Old-kingdom period.
The scene above comes from Beni Hassan tombs and represents a practice for one of the throwing techniques of martial arts. The throwing techniques or the Nage-Waza 投げ技 are almost practiced by all modern martial arts after ancient Egypt. The scene “F-1” shows two players while practicing a throwing technique , player. A is attacked by player. B as B seems to aim to punch A but A tilts with his body to the left side in order to miss the punch, meanwhile he steps backward with his right foot. The scene shows player A while grasping with right hand player B’s waist and with left hand B’s foot in order to throw him down.


F-2.   The presumed stances for A and B players before beginning the throwing.

The throwing technique which is described above depends much on the opponent  rushing body force and how to take advantage of it which we can boldly trace in modern martial arts such the Aikido” Information and Painting by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006. Aikido practitioner Copyright@museumegypt.

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