Most popular martial arts list

This post is about thing with which we are collide most often in daily life сoncerning self improvement. It is possible to start studying practically any martial art now in the modern world at any moment for each of us. During all history of mankind there were "fight systems". Even now in narrow circles of people studying martial arts there is legend about the "Universal and Perfect system of fight"(i will not arguing this and i can't say that it is true). Description of such systems can often be met in books of visionaries (surrealism direction basically).
The Universal system (maybe we will consider it later) is now not interesting, I am interesting in psychological component of martial arts. First of all I should list most popular kinds of martial arts, having divided their by method of influence on the opponent:

Striking

• Punching - Boxing (Western), Wing Chu
• Kicking - Capoeira, Savate, Taekwondo
• Other strikes (using elbows, knees, open-hand) - Muay Thai, Karate, Shaolin Kung Fu

Grappling

• Throwing- Glima, Judo, Jujutsu, Sambo, Shuai jiao
• Joint Lock - Aikido, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Hapkido
• Pinning techniques - Judo, Wrestling

Weaponry

• Traditional Weaponry - Fencing, Gatka, Kendo, Silambam, Kali
• Modern Weaponry - Eskrima, Jogo do Pau, Jukendo

Direct links to wikipedia content on related arts

Of course, there are many more kinds, but these are most popular arts. How i said earlier, there are many martial arts, especially those from Asia, also teach side disciplines which pertain to psychology systems or even to esoteric knowledge (such as whole vibration systems, yoga, asceticism etc...). Later we will consider most interesting, on my opinion, martial arts. I think, that martial arts are one of the most accessible ways to the person self-made. Or, and there is one more reason for studying martial arts - girls love strong guys with athletic constitution :)

Morning physical exercises...

... are one of the most important things in self improvement. I actually consider, that 20-50 minutes of morning exercises can double your activity and forces during all day. It is possible to tell long about WHAT occurs in your organism when you doing exercises every morning. I can tell precisely, that all parts of your body after morning warm-up will receive a sufficient blood inflow, muscles and joints will get pleasant ease. There would be no bad sensations all the day long (of course if you haven't "age" diseases). Is it pleasantly? I consider that optimum time for morning warm-up is 40 minutes. The main thing is to be in movement all these 40 minutes and, that is very important, exercises should demand efforts from you efforts, they should be difficult for you. We are trying to improving, right?:)
I know about 10 ways to make effective warm-up. "Effective" in this case, of course, means that they are hard ( for beginner, people who practice morning exercises get pleasure from them ).
I wouldn't now describing these methods, because it needs a lot of time and place in post to describe all of them in a sufficient measure . We shall borrow in them later. I will find new exercises or optimize old for you every week.
Perhaps for a priming I shall list the most popular and effective, in my opinion, methods :
1) Morning jogs (on my opinion best, simple and accessible way to warm-up, must have in summer time)
2) Simple physical exercises (everyone i think studied this at school's lessons of physical culture)
3) Self-massage (I recently have opened it for myself but already now I understand how much it is necessary for any person)
4) Hatha yoga (unfamiliar art for me yet, but i shall try to master it)
5) There are many ways to warm-up in martial arts (i studied Muai Thai and prefer it, but you can choose one of them closer to you)
6) Very very good way is to swim for a while in the nearest reservoir ( i am lucky i have one :) )
7) All kinds of meditation systems. You really can do incredible things through it, but you must be pro (i can't, maybe later...)
So, I think it is enough for the beginning, later I shall try to consider each method deeply.