Scientific review by prof. PaedDr. Pavol Bartík, PhD Copyright © Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra 2018 Copyright © Wojciech J. Cynarski The Lykeion Library series, Vol. 25 First printing Gdańsk 2019 Photo cover © Oleksandr Pankovets | Stock.adobe.com ISBN 978-83-66107-18-2 Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra http://wnkatedra.pl email:
[email protected] Contains CHAPTER 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 7 CHAPTER 2. Towards which General Theory of Fighting Arts .......................................... 19 CHAPTER 3. ..................................................................... 37 StateCHAPTER of knowledge 4. on fighting arts Individual self-defence in the perspective of general theory of martial arts ........................................................................... 87 CHAPTER 5. Expressive dimension of martial arts................................................................. 113 CHAPTER 6. About evolution of martial arts ............................................................................. 137 CHAPTER 7. Way of martial arts and politics, and politicization ..................................... 161 CHAPTER 8. Training ............................................................................................................................ 189 8.1. Ideological conditioning of martial arts training ................................ 189 8.2. Training in chosen traditional martial arts ..........................................