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Nippon Kempo is a Japanese martial art that engages in full-contact bouts using a full range of techniques wearing specially developed protective gear. Japanese martial arts refers to the enormous variety of Martial arts native to Japan. Many Sports involve a degree of player-to-player and/or player-to-object contact

Developed in 1932 by Muneomi Sawayama the art places an equal emphasis on striking techniques using hands and feet, immobilization and controls, projections and take-downs. A strike is an attack with an inanimate object such as a Weapon, or with a part of the human body intended to cause an effect upon an opponent or to simply cause harm to A takedown is a Martial arts and Combat sports term for a technique that involves off-balancing an opponent and bringing him or her to the ground typically with the Nippon Kempo is a defensive art that does not restrict students in methodology, it has gradually developed through the years and has become widely known and popular – especially in Japan and Europe. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

From a technical point of view, Nippon Kempo is a martial art system based on techniques of striking and kicking, (atemi-waza), blocking (uke-waza), throwing (nage-waza), reverse joint locks (kansetsu-gyakutori-waza) and ground combat (ne-waza) it also uses techniques that are present in other arts including judo, jujutsu, aikido, karate, and wrestling. Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for Combat. In Martial arts, Combat sports or Violence, a kick is a strike using the Foot, leg, or Knee (also known as a knee In Japanese martial arts, the term designates blows to the body as opposed to twisting of joints, strangleholds, holding techniques and throws. A throw (in Japanese martial arts referred to as nage-waza, 投げ技 "throwing technique" is a Martial arts term for a Grappling meaning "gentle way" is a modern Japanese martial art ( Gendai budō) and Combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late literally meaning the " art of softness " or "way of yielding" is a collective name for Japanese martial art styles consisting of grappling is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies philosophy and religious beliefs ( or is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese Kenpō. Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two people in which each wrestler strives to get an advantage over or control of the opponent

Practitioners fight and practice these techniques with protective gear, as the art is a full-contact one and therefore men (headgear), do (chest protector), kurobu (gloves), and a mate ate (groin protector) are used. Since protection is used Nippon Kempo considers legal many techniques that cannot be performed in other styles of competitive sparing. Grabbing a kick, a punch, or locking a joint is allowed, as are knees and elbows to the body or to the face score points. Headhunting is a common practice in Nippon Kempo and so practitioners aim to learn and develops head and body movements to avoid, deflect or counter many punching and kicking combinations. Headhunting is the practice of taking a person's head after killing him or her In Japan, Nippon Kempo is practiced in over 100 universities and is part of training with many police forces. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Police are agents or agencies usually of the executive, empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimatized use of force

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