Do you know your history?

blackburnhakira
Oct 17, 2022
3 min read

Many of you have heard me say that the first recorded use of martial arts on a battlefield was 2674 B.C. That gives us a history of 4,696 years of practice. After more research, I find that my facts may not be as accurate as I thought. While it’s a little tricky to find the exact date and the exact place, there are three candidates we can consider to be our “ancestors.”

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