Modern Schools
Modern styles, or môn (schools), include:
- Võ thuật Bình Định - umbrella title for all the traditional styles of Bình Định.
- Viet Tai Chi - similar to Chinese Tai Chi
- Vovinam of võ sư Nguyễn Lộc. Also called Việt Võ Đạo (Việt = Vietnamese, Võ = martial, Đạo = way)
- Võ Việt Nam (Cuton) or Võ Đạo of Phạm Văn Tan.
Associations in Vietnam include vi:Liên đoàn võ thuật cổ truyền Việt Nam and vi:Tổng hội Võ học Việt Nam.
Overseas
- Cuong Nhu of Ngô Đồng (d. Florida 2000), known also by the Japanese title O Sensei
- Tam Qui Khi-Kong, now popular in Russia.
Read more about this topic: Vietnamese Martial Arts
Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or schools:
“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (b. 1915)
Related Phrases
Related Words