In Chicago, Keehan co-promoted America's first full-contact style martial arts tournament at the University of Chicago on July 28, 1963, and hosted many other such tournaments during the 1960s, pairing practitioners of different styles against one another.

Playing style is full-contact and similar to other indoor football leagues.

) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, Karate and other sports involving striking.

Nearly all mixed martial arts organizations such as UFC, Pancrase, Shooto use a form of full-contact rules, as do professional boxing organizations and K-1.

Since the 1950s, the People's Republic of China has organized Chinese martial arts as an exhibition and full-contact sport under the heading of Wushu.

To honor his mentor out of gratitude and respect for having been allowed the training in place of Senzo Tanaka's deceased son, Dux leaves for Hong Kong to participate in the Kumite — an illegal and underground, freestyle, single-elimination and occasionally deadly full-contact martial arts tournament to which the world's best martial artists are clandestinely invited every five years.

Sanshou is a martial art which was originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the study and practices of traditional Kung fu and modern combat fighting techniques ; it combines full-contact kickboxing, which include punches and kicks, with wrestling, takedowns, throws, sweeps, kick catches, and in some competitions, even elbow and knee strikes.

Though he utilizes a small core of these techniques as part of his teachings, Thompson prefers more pragmatic full-contact martial arts and combat sports such as boxing, Muay Thai and wrestling ( Greco-Roman, Judo, Jujutsu, and Freestyle ).

A majority decision ( MD ) is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and others sports involving striking.

In 1983, he began competing for the World Karate Association in full-contact tournaments, eventually winning the United States Southeastern Super Heavyweight title.

Within the next two years, he was promoting televised full-contact karate tournaments.

On January 27, 2009, in a lawsuit involving an accidental injury sustained during a cheerleading practice, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that cheerleading is a full-contact sport in that state.

* In the mid-1930s, Runyon persuaded promoter Leo Seltzer to formally change his Roller Derby spectacle from a marathon roller-skating race into a full-contact team sport, an innovation that was eventually revived in a DIY spirit seven decades later.

Tatsuo Yamada, who established " Nihon Kempo Karate-do ", was interested in Muay Thai because he wanted to perform karate matches with full-contact rules since practitioners are not allowed to hit each other directly in karate matches.

In the full-contact sport the male boxers are bare-chested wearing shorts and protective gear including: mouth-guard, hand-wraps,.

The equipment for semi-contact is similar to full-contact matches, usually with addition of headgear.

Competitors usually dress in a t-shirt for semi-contact matches, to separate them from the bare-chested full-contact participants.

Students learn to defend against all variety of attacks before engaging in full-contact sparring.

In full-contact sparring, the aim of a competitive match is either to knock out the opponent or to force the opponent to submit.

Due to these factors, full-contact matches tend to be more aggressive in character, but rule sets may still mandate the use of protective equipment, or limit the techniques allowed.

Kyokushin karate requires advanced practitioners to engage in bare-knuckled, full-contact sparring while wearing only a karate gi and groin protector but does not allow punches to the face, only kicks and knees.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and judo matches do not allow striking, but are full-contact in the sense that full force is applied in the permitted grappling and submission techniques.

Despite the physical demands of this full-contact sport, many competitors have been racing for 20 and even 30 years.

Under World Taekwondo Federation and Olympic rules, sparring is a full-contact event and takes place between two competitors in an area measuring 8 meters square.

is a competitive full-contact wrestling sport where a wrestler ( rikishi ) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring ( dohyō ) or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet.

The strip clubs are typically full-contact, meaning the dancers will allow patrons to fondle them.

These demonstrations are not choreographed beforehand but neither are they full-contact competitions.

* Dog Brothers – a group notorious for their Gatherings which feature full-contact stick fighting and minimal protection.

Women have begun playing full-contact American football.

It's primary use in SCA is as a substitute for a real sword, as the sport is generally full-contact in armor.

Full contact karate is a broad term used to differentiate competition formats of karate where competitors spar ( also called Kumite ) full-contact and allow a knockout as winning criterion, and those competitions which use light contact / semi contact point sparring where a knockout is regarded as a foul.

One major format of full-contact sport karate is known as knockdown karate or sometimes Japanese full contact karate.

Unlike American full-contact karate, or point karate, clean hits are not counted in and by themselves, as the scoring depends entirely on the effect of the hits, not on the formal or stylistic appearance of the techniques.

He has blended judo, western boxing, kickboxing, and gymnastics into his own unique fighting style and is a master of multiple martial arts.

Along with the martial use of the drums, they also held a strong foundation in the court style music called Gagaku, performed in the castles and shrines across ancient Japan.

* Dravidian martial arts, a style of martial arts

These techniques are sometimes used by real martial artists as well, depending on the style of action in the film.

Sometimes, training with one specific weapon will be considered a style of martial arts in its own right.

They are rather contemporary regional sports that coexist with the modern forms of martial arts sports as they have developed since the 19th century, often including cross-fertilization between sports and folk styles ; thus, the traditional Thai style of Muay Boran developed into the modern national sport of Muay Thai, which in turn came to be practiced worldwide and contributed significantly to modern hybrid styles like kickboxing and mixed martial arts.

With the success of muay Thai in the mixed martial arts, it has become the de facto style of choice for competitive stand-up fighters.

Some neijia schools refer to their arts as " soft style " martial arts.

While specific styles taught by different teachers, in the mode of Asian martial arts, cannot be excluded, it is very clear ( including in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics ) that the objective of a teacher of combat sports was to help each of his athletes to develop his personal style that would fit his strengths and weaknesses.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

* Savate was also the martial arts style of the French antagonists and police officers in the 2001 Jet Li film Kiss of the Dragon.

However, the WTF-sanctioned events allow any person, regardless of school affiliation or martial arts style, to compete in WTF events as long as he or she is a member of the WTF Member National Association in his or her nation, which is open to anyone to join.

* Meditation: The focus and calmness cultivated by the meditative aspect of t ' ai chi ch ' uan is seen as necessary in maintaining optimum health ( in the sense of relieving stress and maintaining homeostasis ) and in application of the form as a soft style martial art.

" This was the time when Yang Luchan made the Chen clan's martial art known to the world through his own form (" Yang family style ").

Wing Chun (), also romanised as Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun, ( and sometimes substituted with the characters 永春 " eternal springtime "); ( also known as Snake-Crane style ); is a concept-based Chinese martial art and form of self-defense utilising both striking and grappling while specialising in close-range combat.

** Takayuki Kubota, martial artist and founder of the Gosoku-ryu style of karate

* Fujian White Crane, one of five animal-inspired constituent martial arts of the " Five Ancestors Fist " style

Sumo, while considered a martial art, diverges from the typical Eastern style both at the surface and at its heart.

In Chinese martial arts, " Dragon style " is used to describe styles of fighting based more on understanding movement, while " Tiger style " is based on brute strength and memorization of techniques.

Much like Angel, he is highly proficient in various forms of martial arts, and his typical fighting style blends karate, kung fu, and others.

Shozo Mizuki, a homeless man who lives at the harbor, is a skilled martial artist who reveres the Hazuki style and teaches Ryo three useful techniques.