Category:Martial Artist

Characters who are highly skilled in an organized form of unarmed combat that may or may not include additional skill with non-mechanical weapons such as swords, knives and staffs. Does not include skill with mechanical weapons like guns or magical blasters. May also include armed martial arts such as bōjutsu.

Martial Arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. They may be studied for various reasons including combat skills, fitness, self-defense, sport, self-cultivation/meditation, mental discipline, character development and building self-confidence, or any combination of the above. There is a great diversity and abundance of martial arts but, broadly speaking, martial arts share a common goal: to defeat a person physically or to defend oneself from physical threat.