i think a major flaw of christianity is that there isnt a discipline of martial arts tied to it
Story I head was that it was adapted from folk Russian martial arts for use by Spetsnaz. Some practitioners now want to associate it with deeper Russian and Orthodox roots. How accurate this is, I don't know, but it seems plausible that it predates the USSR.
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A lot of the stuff I've seen in YouTube is all about gun grabs, which seems unlikely to predate communism.
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Now that you mention it, one Systema instructor I had had us practice attacking and being attacked with folding chairs, ball point pens and plastic bags, and, gee, those things sound pretty mid 20th century too. Communism it is, I guess.
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