I train in Western Combat Tradition, which is an amalgamation of all the European forms of combat from 13th century through to the early 1900s. We aren't really a martial art group as such because a lot of what we study has the intent of causing death, we just make sure we don't hurt each other irreversibly, cuts, bruises, breaks and sprains kinda thing. It's like a self-defence course for every form of melee combat in Europe for the past few hundred years. My trainer doesn't call it a martial 'art' because it isn't an 'art' but an actual practical skillset. It causes no end of problems getting funding.
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