List of Fictional Martial Arts - Movies and Television

Movies and Television

• Anbo-Jitsu — from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Icarus Factor"; involves wearing helmets that do not allow a combatant to see and using large, electrified pugil sticks that signal when aimed at the opponent. (One maneuver, called "hachidan kiritsu," is illegal.) Practiced by William Riker and his father Kyle.
• Ecky-Thump — a Lancastrian martial art from The Goodies, which uses the black pudding as a weapon
• Fa Kyu— a Scottish martial art from So I Married An Axe Murderer, which consists mostly of headbutting and kicking the opponent when they are on the ground.
• Echani— from Star Wars, It is a martial art developed by Echani people and is used across the galaxy by many people and security organizations. In echani fighters use strikes which come from their hips, they pivot their body and hips to make their strikes stronger and use many nerve strikes and pressure points. They turn to the side to present smaller target area, and for defense they intercept enemy attacks by striking the limb that carries the attack. The art has three circles or forms and higher levels are performed with weapons, though use of the Force is forbidden.
• Gun Kata — practiced by Tetragrammaton Clerics in the movie Equilibrium. Focusing on firearms, especially handguns, Gun Kata practitioners use rote memorization of martial arts-style forms based on probability models to shoot where the enemy is most likely to be and position their bodies to avoid return fire. Gun Kata was also practiced in the movie Ultraviolet. (Also see Gun fu.)
• Jūken — A form of kenpō practiced in the Japanese Super Sentai Series Juken Sentai Gekiranger with techniques based on different animals. In its film Juken Sentai Gekiranger: Nei-Nei! Hou-Hou! Hong Kong Decisive Battle, the main characters face off against users of the similar style of Mechung Fu.
• Kosho,(Old Pine Tree), a style of martial art practised in the live action television series, The Prisoner. The art in the series is far different than the real art practiced by follower of James Mitose. In the series two combatants dressed in long coats, helmets and reinforced gloves face off on opposing trampolines separated by a pool of water, all of which is surrounded by an elevated ledge and railing. All surfaces are open to use, and the art includes striking and grappling skills, as well as acrobatic manouvres. The goal is to force one's opponent into the pool.
• Kumite (tournament) — The name of an alleged freestyle single-elimination full-contact fighting tournament, held in secret every five years, to which only the world's finest martial artists are invited. The event was originally portrayed in the 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Bloodsport.
• Lightsaber combat — from Star Wars, consisting of seven distinct sword combat styles incorporating various skills using the Force.
• Meyraiyuth — also known as "drunken Muay Thai," it is featured in the 2009 Thai film Raging Phoenix. It is primarily a combination of Muay Thai and breakdancing, but also features athletic skills from other disciplines, such as parkour and gymnastics, along with cooperative techniques that often resemble figure skating or swing dancing. This style derives much of its effectiveness from the unpredictability of the fighters, who often rely on punctuated movements, as well as exotic postures and unintuitive maneuvers. While Meyraiyuth may superficially resemble Capoeira, it is distinguishable by its lack of the Ginga "stance," and by its intentionally confusing movements, which may be punctuated and irrythmic.
• Mok'bara — a Klingon martial art seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation, which includes both an unarmed form similar to taijiquan and forms using traditional Klingon weapons such as the bat'leth. Worf is shown teaching mok'bara classes to the Enterprise crew.
• Mosh-ti — A martial art used in the 23rd century in the TV series Time Trax. Said to be an occidental improvement of the martial arts.
• Rex Kwon Do — Martial art featured in the film Napoleon Dynamite
• Teräs Käsi — a martial art in the Star Wars Expanded Universe that makes use of some properties of The Force.
• Tsunkatse — from the Star Trek: Voyager episode of the same name, in which Seven of Nine joined a tournament.
• Venusian Aikido (sometimes called Venusian Karate) — from Doctor Who, practiced by the Third Doctor.
• Jim-Jam-Ya-HA— a rare form of Eastern Martial art that focuses on combat without contact. Practiced by Bornean Mystics shown frequently in the children's TV show Roger and the Rottentrolls, Practiced by Commander Harris (a sheep) and the human characters Roger Beckett and his stepsister Kate Beckett. Whilst Roger can only knock a tin can at 10 Yards his stepsister is the "Chosen One", who has a huge amount of power. In the episode "The First Rottentroll Revolt" the character Blacksyke may have an innate talent for it (as she accidentally used it to knock a book case on herself.) There are also other variations of it, mainly "Jim-Jam-Yo-Ho" a delayed one that takes 30 seconds to work; "Jim-Jam-Yo-Who" makes people walk in a straight line; "Jim-Jam-Yo-Ho-Bu" that falsely makes people believe they are all old friends and finally "Jim-Jam-Ya-Shimi" makes the victim idolise the user. Out of universe the Narrator (Martin Clunes) constantly reminds viewers not to imitate Jim-Jam-Ya-Ha as in the wrong hands it can be deadly and illegal.
• The bending arts in "Avatar: The Last Airbender" are martial arts based on the four elements air, water, earth and fire. However the arts are based on real kung fu, hung gar, t'ai chi, ba gua, and northern shaolin kung fu.
• Wuxi Finger Hold - A martial arts move used in Kung Fu Panda. It involves holding an opponent's finger and flexing one's pinky finger.
• Woo Foo from the Canadian/American animated series Yin Yang Yo. Woo Foo is a parody of Kung Fu and mysticism.
• Cobra Kai — An extremely violent and powerful hybrid karate art in the Karate Kid films, based on military freestyle karate and violence innuendo studied in the shaolin disciplinary element of fire. The arts are actually based on Shoshin Nagamines writings and ancient martial personalized imperialism of the code of No Mercy, No Pain, No Fear, No Losing. The lead characters are Terry Silver and John Kreese, who pick on Daniel LaRusso in the film. Terry is the founder of the Quicksilver method, A Man Can't Stand A Man Can't Fight "How To Kill A Man In Two Seconds By Infringing Back", and Sweep The Leg "You Got A Problem With That?", a John Kreese patented tactic for Vietnam Super Soldiers in the line of duty.
• Hamster Style Kung Fu - A form of Kung Fu studied by Choda Boy, Orgazmo's side-kick from the movie Orgazmo. For reasons which are never made clear, Choda Boy had made a vow to his father that he would never use Hamster Style again.