Sanda (also called sanshou) is a discipline recent codification but not of recent origin. Those who have practiced or practice other disciplines combat as kickboxing or jujitsu, you can find many points in common with the sanda, many of whom are actually apparent. While those who know the Chinese martial arts is applied many basic principles of the most important traditional schools, mostly belonging to the group of Schools of the North. Indeed, the fighter of sanda prefers a distance of fighting long enough, thus helping the wider use of the legs to attack the opponent.
A continuous mobility of the body and continuous movements constitute the means to not offer it to your opponent an easy target and at the same time to ensure a good reactivity and into counterattack. This form of struggle is born from the need to provide students of different styles the opportunity to measure their skills and athletic technique in a sport without any serious threat to the physical safety. There were thus introduced to the protections bust, and tibie head, in addition to the hands and genitals; a set of rules made it possible to manage meetings and to limit further damage to your opponent. Nevertheless the sanda remains an extremely effective discipline from the point of view of defence staff, because pushes the practitioner to strike decisively and power and use different strategies to combat: the exchange of kicks and punches to fight hand-to-hand. In ancient times in tournaments combat the contenders are scontravano on a wooden stage raised from the ground: to win the encounter had to throw the opponent down from the stage or kill him. In modern era has remained part of the tradition by introducing competition in a rule that those who are thrown out of the floor twice in the same recovery loses round. In modern sanda the area of fighting is a kind of ring without ropes (sanda leitai).

Leitai ®: "Sanshou is the Chinese term to define combat free of traditional kung fu, while Letai is the name of the platform where, since ancient times, we play these kinds of meetings. Then Sanshou Leitai ® is a free and competitive battle of traditional martial arts, where all the techniques and methods of struggle are allowed and which seeks to continue an important tradition in the history of Chinese wushu, or the organization of meetings Combat total interstile and martial arts. "
"In the China meetings were fighting free real challenges public that were convened by the great battles that proclaimed their superiority and imbattibilità, causing everyone to confront them. The fighters are sfidavano without protections, could attack all parts of one's body and any technique was granted to them. Vinceva who killed the enemy or surrender. These meetings were very popular in ancient China and, over time, were transformed into real tournaments. In fact, especially in times of the Song (960 - 1279) and the Ming (1368 - 1644) were born many martial arts schools and frequent were the challenges that members of some of them to other launched to demonstrate the superiority of own method. Whether in big cities as well as in villages, many were those who came from all over the country to 'deal with the challenges'. Cospicuo was also the number of women in those periods practiced combat sports.
"These challenges, with some rule more than in the past, took place on a wooden tray that took the name of 'leitai' and 'Lord of the Ring', winner of the tournament, he was declared that nobody could beat most . Until the end of the'40 these bloody encounters were still regularly held throughout the country but, although many were already banned brutality, the neo Maoista government forbade the organization of these races so violent because little is confacevano with new ideals of development where social, martial arts, had to take a value in health protection and the affirmation of the values of human dignity and solidarity. "
The meetings Leitai ® is a new end of this century. The formula for winning that race was able to get on the same materassina, schools traditions completely different: the Chinese kung fu with the Vietnamese and Korean, karate and ju jitsu Japanese with Thai kick boxing… just to name a few.
"The meetings are held, according to the tradition, on a platform eight metres for eight without ropes and raised from the ground by at least fifty centimetres. In meetings kung fu Leirtai ® is permitted is the fight that standing on the ground. In the fight standing are allowed all shots taken with all parts of the body - legs, higher head - and projections. In the fight to land are allowed instead all those techniques that put the opponent in a situation of inferiority objective, in order to be able to strike parts most exposed and vulnerable, or immobilizzarlo, with levers and strangolamenti in order to make it harmless ".
Unless I misunderstood gomitate are permitted in the face ginocchiate…
"In Italy, for today, Leitai ® is the only competitive formula that allows his head to strike the enemy with the knees, elbows and his head and, most… be safer. In meetings Leitai ® in addition to the normal protections, the athletes have an obligation to use paragomiti and paraginocchia and wear a helmet with protective mask for the face designed specifically for this kind of meetings. The use of these protections can use all or most of the vast repertoire of technical martial arts, including fearsome gomitate and ginocchiate and also tested.

Stefano Pernatsch
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