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| '''Lua''' is a traditional Hawaiian martial art with a focus on joint dislocation and bone-breaking. | |||
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| '''Lua''' is a recovering martial art from ]. The exact age of the art is disputed, but it is generally accepted that Lua has existed for almost as long as Polynesians have inhabited Hawaii. | |||
| ===Lua History and Its Decline=== | |||
| Lua is much more than a martial art. It is a Hawaiian cultural legacy. One famous Lua practitioner was ], who united all the Hawaiian islands by 1810. Lua had a strict '''"Kapu"''' or oath, that forbid practitioners from teaching people outside of their class or to non-Hawaiians. Eventually, with the influx of missionaries, Lua was looked down upon as a pagan, "black art", and was forced underground. Over the years, the Lua all but died out. | |||
| ===The Rebirth of Lua=== | |||
| The Lua style was saved by a handful of people who worked to spread the art to Hawaiians as a cultural treasure. These people included ], who studied Lua during the first quarter of the 20th century, his students ], ], ] and ], ], and ], who teaches his own family's particular style of Lua. Through the work of these dedicated ], or masters, Lua is making a comeback. | |||
| ===Philosophy=== | |||
| Lua is a system of fighting based on the theory of ]. Lua warriors would combine the traits of ], the god of war, and ], the goddess of the moon. Lua seeks to balance good and evil, male and female, destruction and healing, dark and light. This concept of '''balance''' can most likely be traced back to Hawaii's Asian roots. Polynesians are thought to have come to Hawaii at around 900 A.D., and they brought their ideaologies with them. | |||
| ===Characteristics=== | |||
| Lua's combat system consists of '''kuikui''' (punching), '''peku''' (kicking), '''hakihaki''' (bone-breaking), '''hakoko''' (wrestling) and '''aalolo''' (pressure point attacks). However in keeping with the focus on duality, there is also a focus on healing. Lua practitioners historically trained in ], as well as other natural methods of healing. | |||
| ===Similarities to Other Styles=== | |||
| Lua utilizes dance or "]" in their martial art system, similar in method to ]. This martial dance is called '''haka'''. It is is said that '''lua''' and '''haka''' are the mother to ], the famous Hawaiian dance. The dances were used to calm warriors before battle, intimidate their enemies, and to hide martial techniques from those seeking to steal them. | |||
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