Some of you will have heard of Mantras, Yogic Mantras, chanting, and will be familiar with the idea that sounds contain power. This is a tradition maintained by the Indian sages, who we know learned from African sages, who also maintained that the universe came into existence by the power of sound. The Indians taught the chinese & Japanese all about Martial arts, breathing techniques, and they developed things like Zen & Tao with it. But if the Indians learned from the Africans first of all then naturally the Chinese and Japanese were really learning from them too. Because the teaching is so profound it has never changed. Systems of fighting may have changed but the original methods applied to gain control over ones breath have not. People tend to associate Martial arts more or less exclusively with Chinese and Japanese people, as if they had invented it, but there is evidence for advanced systems of fighting and self defense along with meditation & breathing techniques existing in Africa long before Martial arts was heard of in China.