Talk:Hybrid martial arts

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Modern Muay Thai can also said to be a hybrid martial arts. Many modern muay thai fighters have chosen to incoperate formal boxing techniques into their arsenal.Shardakar 15:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hybrid ancients?

I am confused as to the inclusion of arts such as baguazhang into the category "Hybrid". I believed hybrid matial arts referred to modern (i.e., XIX century and later) systems artificially compiled by an instructor or committee by putting together a number of techniques gathered from different extant arts. That definition would exclude A)older systems, developed through a longer and smoother evolution, and B) Systems created ex novo drawing from the sciences of anatomicy & biomechanics, pathology and psychology. Nevertheless, I haven't been able to find sources to substantiate the above assertion. Does anyone have more info on this? Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.43.102.115 (talk) 21:47, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

Hybrid is a difficult to define as many (most?) MAs have combined techniques from other styles, my thoughts would be to ask if there has been a significant amount of independent adaptation since the merge. --Nate1481( ^t/_c) 10:41, 30 August 2007 (UTC)