Kallaripeyattu  is known as the oldest Martial arts that exists, it is the mother of all martial arts , history itself is an evidence for that.  Story of Origin- The Vadakkan style of Kalaripeyattu is the very same Martial arts that महादेव taught Lord परशुराम. Lord परशुराम  is known as 6th अवतार of श्री हरि विष्णु . During द्वापर युग , he taught this to 3 people  including; गंगापुत्र भीष्म, गुरु द्रोणाचार्य And अंगराज कर्ण . Later at the beginning of कलियुग, he taught the Vadakkan style of Kalaripeyattu to 21 selected people from South India  and went for Meditation, till the end of कलियुग. Those 21 people started training and teaching this to people. Later in 495 BCE , A king Named as बोधि धर्मन , who was an expert in Kalaripeyattu as well as आयुर्वेद decided to spread this arts to the world for the sake of mankind . He traveled to a place, which we today call as China . There he found sick people, dying of a pandemic. He cured them with hi...