Modern kung fu skills are the styles made in the 19th and 20 th centuries. There would not be any modern martial-arts without the traditional martial-arts which the majority of them originated from China. Western interests have indeed played a huge part in the development of the modern karate skills that in existance today. Principally thanks to increased trade betwen America, Europe, China, and Japan. The U. S.

Army played a giant role in bringing kung fu skills to the US after World War Two and the Korean War.

Examples of modern martial-arts are the varied styles of Karate and Kickboxing. One example is Shotokan Karate that was made from Ryukyu Kempo from the Ryukyu Islands which is now present-day Okinawa. Savate or French kickboxing is an example of modern self-defense skills. It was known as French footfighting. In a sense, it is like Muay Thai kickboxing but with added ballet. The most important contributory factor to modern martial humanities were army staff from the U.S. in Europe that spent time in China, Japan, and Korea. The infantrymen would learn assorted styles of Kung-Fu, Karate, Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, and that kind of thing. Then they might come home and teach the styles to others.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was a result when Maeda an expert of Judo moved to Brazil. He taught the Gracie Family Judo. As a consequence, the Gracie Family added more ground fighting and created Brazilian / Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. Western Kickboxing is a consequence of taking methodologies from Muay Thai, Karate, and Tae Kwon Do. It’s another modern style of karate skills. One of the most important folk that gave to the creation of karate skills is Bruce Lee when he made Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee used Wing Chun as his base style. He would research assorted styles like : Shotokan Karate, Judo, Wrestling, Tae Kwon Do, Fencing, Savate, Lethwei, and Muay Thai and blend aspects into what we call Jeet Kune Do today.

Modernization ends up in promotion and enlargement of the older styles. A decent number of modern styles are mixed-martial humanities styles. Another example of a modern style is Japanese Shootfighting made by fighter Bart Vale that mixed Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, and Muay Thai. It became a good karate skills style at the same time a total martial-arts style that taught striking and grappling.

Competitions like UFC broke the mysticism of plenty of the older styles. It might show the way for more recent and more modern styles. In a way, self-defense skills developed with the times. As we get more modernised, kung fu skills has to get more modernised also.

After WW2, the Israeli army made a fighting system for their special forces. It was called Krav Maga, which mixed Fighting , Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, and Muay Thai. San Shou the Chinese variant of Muay Thai was made in the mid-1950s and so is a modern style of karate skills.

At this moment, the half-breed humanities like Navy SEAL and mixed karate skills styles like Gaidojutsu are results of the modernization of martial-arts. The change in times and without the early styles, there would be no recent history of self-defense skills.