Talk:Combat sport

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[edit] Combat sports or martial arts?

The list on this page seems to be a bit confused. First of all, the title is a self-referencing link (which I'll fix in a moment). Second, there's at least one art listed twice (which I'll fix in a moment). More importantly, though, someone seems to be making an effort to list a really broad range of martial arts. There's already a List of martial arts on Wikipedia, and this article isn't the place for it. Many of the arts listed here aren't primarily combat sports, and some of them really have no combat sport application (I can see how iaido could have competitive application, but combat sport application?). I think this article needs a good deal of editing to improve its focus. I'd give it a shot myself, but to be honest, I've got a rather strong personal bias against combat sports, and don't trust my objectivity in this matter. —Erik Harris 19:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree, I'm gonna clean house a little... Canadian Ninja 20:44, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

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Killed the it, divided it up by focus maybe crib the combat sports from the MA nav box? --Nate1481( ^t/_c) 11:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)