How to categorize MA?

[stubbs]

I'm trying to sort something out for a site I'm working on and I don't want to leave any martial arts related topics out so how would you categorize martial arts into a few (say less than 10) categories? by country? by style? internal/external?

im thinking chinese. japanese & okinowan(sp?), malaysian, korean, russian & european, south american, mma, other, and maybe having internal arts as separate. i dunno i can't decide. any suggestions?

cheers,
stubbs
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[Vash]

Yes. Don't.

[norther practitioner]

Why do you feel the need to further classify them?

What do you want to accomplish?

What basis' would you like to look at?

[stubbs]

its for a forum. i'd like to have some kind of categorization rather than just ma, thats too vast.
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[stubbs]

by too vast i mean one section of the forum might get clogged up with too many posts, so i'd like to break it down into smaller sections. i can't decide how to though
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[SevenStar]

grappling
thai boxing/kickboxing
sport fighting
japanese
chinese
korean
internal
other

malaysian, russian, filipino, european, etc. likely won't draw enough posts to warrant their own forum. They can fall under "Other".

[Vash]

If one must set them up . . .

Traditional/Classical
Chinese
Okinawan
Japanese

Modern/Sport
Grappling
Muay Thai/Kickboxing
Boxing

Other Related Arts
Internal
ORA

[Kelar]

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