No. Most martial arts were historically weapons-based, since the original martial arts were applied to war. The Spartans and the Samurai were some of the first combatants to blend wrestling (grappling) with weapons, which made them more efficient soldiers. Many martial arts today have evolved to the point where you would never know that they used to have weapons training connected to them. As you know, Western wrestling began in ancient Greece, then spread to Rome, hence the name Greco-Roman wrestling. In addition, India had its own grappling systems which may have pre-dated Greek wrestling. There is some speculation and uncertainty as to whether the Greeks or Indians influenced Samurai jujitsu. The Samurai "may have" invented their own grappling system.

Let's go back farther than any sort of organized or systematized martial "art".... The fighting practiced by very primitive human beings.

We know that existing primitive humans that have been studied will likely have some sort of grappling... Often as ceremony rather than combat.

We also know that they have weapons. Even our close cousins, the chimps, use weapons.... Anthropologists have observed chimps hitting each other or other animals with rocks and sticks.

Seems likely that the very first "arts" would have involved weapons as the most efficient method of killing an opponent or a wild critter.

I don't think unarmed combat as a system would have risen until the start of actual civilization.

If you ever read that "______ is the origin of the martial arts" and you don't immediately say BS then you need to really stop and read it again. Do you REALLY think that any ONE source could POSSIBLY be the origin of ALL other martial arts in the world? That's absolutely absurd. There isn't some parent style that all other arts stem from. It isn't wrestling, it isn't Kung Fu, it isn't ANYTHING. It's in human nature to come up with ways to do things better, and it's in human nature to fight. SOME martial arts come from other parent styles, but for the most part this idea that all arts come from ______ is just plain stupid.

The genesis of Chinese martial arts has been attributed to the need for self-defense, hunting techniques and military training in ancient China. Hand-to-hand combat (A hand-to-hand combat theory, including the integration of notions of "hard" = "Yang" and "soft" = "Ying" techniques) and weapons practice were important in training ancient Chinese soldiers.

According to legend, Chinese martial arts originated during the semi-mythical Xia Dynasty (夏朝) more than 4,000 years ago. It is said the Yellow Emperor Huangdi (legendary date of ascension 2698 BCE) introduced the earliest fighting systems to China.

One of his main opponents was Chi You (蚩尤) who was credited as the creator of jiao di, a forerunner to the modern art of Chinese Wrestling.

The Han History Bibliographies record that, by the Former Han (206 BCE – 8 CE), there was a distinction between no-holds-barred weaponless fighting, which it calls shǒubó (手搏), for which "how-to" manuals had already been written, and sportive wrestling, then known as juélì or jiǎolì (角力).

Wrestling is also documented in the Shǐ Jì, Records of the Grand Historian, written by Sima Qian (ca. 100 BC). Jiǎolì is also mentioned in the Classic of Rites (1st c. BC).

In 39-92 CE, "Six Chapters of Hand Fighting", were included in the Han Shu (history of the Former Han Dynasty) written by Pan Ku. Also, the noted physician, Hua Tuo, composed the "Five Animals Play" - tiger, deer, monkey, bear, and bird, around 220 BCE

In the Tang Dynasty, descriptions of sword dances were immortalized in poems by Li Bai and Du Fu. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, xiangpu (the earliest form of sumo) contests were sponsored by the imperial courts. The modern concepts of wushu were fully developed by the Ming and Qing dynasties.

With regards to the Shaolin style of martial arts, the oldest evidence of Shaolin participation in combat is a stele from 728 CE that attests to two occasions: a defense of the Shaolin Monastery from bandits around 610 CE, and their subsequent role in the defeat of Wang Shichong at the Battle of Hulao in 621 CE.

From online source - Far East Asian martial arts (origins)

Lmfao.

No they are not. Fencing is not, bojitsu is not, sai jitsu is not, tkd is not, muay thai is not, irish stick fighting is not,

Do you want me to continue with the long list of hundred of martial arts that are not.

Bipap stand for judo .