You can't copyright a Martial Arts system any more than you could copyright any other action. You can copyright or trademark the name of a system, and any media created about a system (books, video, logos, etc.).
Martial arts are the skills to conduct warfare and combat. As long has mankind has been involved in conflict, the martial arts have been used.
Every culture that has gone to war or been involved in a fight has a martial art. Martial arts refer to any skills used in combat, so use of sword, gun and weapons are martial arts.
No, it will not affect your martial arts. There have been no proven studies that cracking joints will have any long term affects.
Japanese martial arts are more of a origin based thing and have been around way longer than American martial arts. American martial arts in my opinion are not as effective in real world fighting and are mainly sports based such as Taekwondo. I hope this answers your question!
There have been many martial arts shows. Human Weapon was one that would visit a country and study the native martial art. When the visited Okinawa they studied with some of my teachers.
The importance of martial arts. That is a very complicated question. Martial arts is about discipline, respect, and self-control. Generally doing any martial arts also increases your self esteem and ability to defend yourself. Depending on the art, you will also get very flexible. There have been many studies showing martial arts increases, on average, a persons spirituality and health.
The Asian based martial art would be Judo in 1964. Prior to that the javelin and wrestling would have been the earliest, shooting guns and archery, as well as fencing, where martial arts found in the Olympics.
since the world started
Neither. Martial arts began in separate countries around the world as mankind evolved. Self defense is a natural instinct, and that's where martial arts started. Almost every country has their own form of martial arts that's been around for hundreds, even thousands of years. Over time, as cultures and countries began to interact with trading , traveling, etc, the martial arts was mingled and mixed as people shared their ideas. This continues to this day.
Though Japanese sword play has been around for an in fathomable period of time hand to hand martial arts did not truly get introduced until after the first occupation of Okinawa in 1609. The now popular Japanese karate did not become wildly popular in Japan until after the Okinawan Master Funikoshi did a demonstration for the crown Prince of Japan in the early 1900's
It would be very difficult to create such a listing. Most martial arts are hundreds of years old and can trace their roots back many centuries and some even a 1000 years. And over the last century, many of the martial arts have been combined to create new ones.
Matt Emig has: Played Himself - Martial Artist in "XMA: Xtreme Martial Arts" in 2003. Played Himself - Martial Artist in "Elite XC" in 2007. Played Himself - Martial Artist in "ISKA World Championships Martial Arts US Open" in 2007. Played Himself - Martial Arts Tricker in "Glee" in 2009. Played Himself - Martial Artist in "The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards" in 2011. Played Himself - Tricker in "The Voice" in 2011.