Wikipedia is quite the time vampire.
Case in point, I went to the article for Parkour.
I somehow wound up looking up jujutsu and it was all over.
Next thing I know, I'm hip deep in international martial arts articles:
* baritsu
* dambe
* hapkido (I'm told this style is now properly called "yongmudo")
* krav maga
* kurash (I only barely know where Uzbekistan is...)
* ninjutsu (HAH!)
* okichitaw
* savate
* schwingen
* vovinam
And that's just a smattering.
Good lord.
That's an awful lot of formalized ways of hurting people.
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