Martial Arts as Predecessors of Martial Arts: Historical Aspects of Development in Ukraine

The goal − The goal is to substantiate the historical patterns of the development of martial arts based on martial arts in our country. Methodology: analysis and synthesis of data from historical, modern scientific and scientific-methodological literature and the Internet on the problem being studied. Scientific novelty. The article provides an analysis of data on the emergence of one of the oldest pedagogical systems of education - martial arts. The authors of the article made a thorough analysis of the emergence of martial arts in Ukraine, emphasized the need to interpret the city-progenitor of martial arts, which will contribute to the understanding of the significance of the further development of martial arts and martial arts, will become an important element of the formation of physical culture as a means of patriotic education of the younger generation. Conclusions. The results of the review of scientific literature indicate that nowadays martial arts are developing in three main directions: the ancient form; unchanged form in the form of transformed schools, which, however, preserved classical methods and characteristics; in the form of modern, highly modified styles, which now have their continuation in the fusion of Bujutsu techniques with martial arts techniques.