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British Council for Chinese Martial Arts was created in 1973.
Yip Man was a well-known Chinese martial artist, who passed away in 1972 at the age of 79. The martial arts that he practiced were mixed martial arts.
Legend says that it was the Bodhidarma that started Chinese martial arts. He brought the arts he learned in India to the Shoalin temples. But the arts were there long before that.
"Gi" is a generic term for dress. In Japanese martial arts, gi is the term used to describe the uniform the class wears. The style of the gi can vary with the style of the martial art, but the term remains the same.
There are many different styles of martial arts all of which have some influence from the region they came from. Taekwondo incorporates the Northern style based Chinese form of martial arts(MA).