Would you consider SCA heavy weapons fighting a Martial Art?
Here is a link to a demonstration page: http://www.scademo.com/demo.fighting.php
These men and women study Western European medieval combat, and have full contact, unscripted, unchoreographed tournaments to determine who is the better fighter that day. Oh, and they don't have judges. The combatants are honor bound to stop using an arm if the arm gets hit, or fall over 'dead' if a sufficiently forceful blow lands on the torso or head. Would you consider it a Martial Art, like Kempo or something?
Personally, I would because it definitely takes skill and practice to learn to do it properly. There is an honor code that goes along with it much like true "martial arts" so it would seem to fit into that classification. Whether it truly is considered a martial art though, I'm not sure.
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