[QUOTE=Roan Carter]
Quote Originally Posted by GTRMAN
The long skirts your martial arts instructor is referring to is a Japanese Hakama which is pleated and runs to the ankle or even to the floor.


Yeah -- I recalled their functionality and was wondering if it was exclusive to the orient.
I don't know about the exclusivity, but there's a Western Martial Arts YahooGroup that might be helpful - they cover a lot of the so-called "Celtic" martial arts, including Cumann Bhata, purring, single-stick, broadsword, etc.

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a place to discuss the various European martial traditions that either currently active or have been in the past. Some of the topics will include: Boxing, Wrestling in all of it's european forms, Savate, Sambo, Pankration, Faction Fighting, Fencing, Rapier, Longsword, Broadsword any western style sword you can imagine! Pole arms from axes to spears! and anything else of european martial descent.

Link to the Western Arts YahooGroup