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Budo & Martial Arts Federation
Swedish Budo and Martial Arts
Federation is included in the Swedish Sports Confederation
(Riksidrottsförbundet), and organises most
East Asian martial arts since the beginning of
the 1960s. Nowadays also non-Asian martial arts
are included. An exception is judo, which formed
its own federation in 1987; taekwondo did the
same in 1997. There are also a number of martial
arts that are not connected to a federation.
Currently there
are eighteen different sports within the organisation.
Karate is the biggest with approximately 17 500
members, followed by ju-jutsu with 11 000, aikido
with 5000 and wushu with 3500. All together the
federation has around 40 000 members in over 750
clubs, but the numbers are constantly growing.
The
sports included are:
Aikido
Japanese self-defence art
Bujinkan Japanese
martial art
Capoeira Acrobatic
art with Brazilian origin
Filipino Martial Arts
(FMA) A group of martial arts from the
Philippines
Glima Ancient
Nordic wrestling
Iaido Japanese
sword art
Jodo Japanese
martial art using a stick
Ju-jutsu Japanese
self-defence
Karate Japanese
martial art
Kendo Japanese
fencing
Kickboxing Modern
martial art with American origin
Krav Maga Self
defence with Israeli origin
Kyudo Japanese
archery
Naginata Japanese
art using a sword like weapon similar to the halberd
Shootfighting
Modern art from Japan
Shorinjikempo
Japanese martial art
Taido Japanese,
acrobatic martial art
Wushu/kung-fu
Chinese martial arts
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