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Vietnamese: Viet Vo Dao**
 * English: Vovinam

Vovinam (Viet Vo Dao) is a Vietnamese martial arts. It includes a wide range of techniques including punching, kicking and wrestling. It also includes using weapons such as swords, axes, folding fans and staffs.

As to the Yin and Yang theory, there are martial arts that prefer the hard over the soft and others that prefer the soft over the hard. Vovinam Viet Vo Dao does not prefer any over the other. Hard and Soft are used equally.

The founder of Vovinam Việt Võ Đạo is Loc Nguyen. He believed that every Vietnamese child should learn this martial art and thus, he spent his life teaching it to the Vietnamese youth.

The martial art spread to the rest of the world during the Vietnam War, when Vietnamese people emigrated toward countries such as France and Holland.

The most famous technique is the Don Chan (grab the enemy's neck using your legs).

__**The 10 principles of Vovinam Viet Vo Dao are:**__
 * 1) Vovinam's disciples vow to pursue high proficiency in their martial art in order to serve the people and humanity.
 * 2) Promise to be faithful to the intentions and teaching of Vovinam and develop the young generation of Vovinam Viêt Võ Dao
 * 3) Be united in spirit and heart, respect one's elder, be kind to one's peers.
 * 4) Respect discipline absolutely, maintain the high standard of personal conduct and honour of a martial art disciple.
 * 5) Have respect for other martial art schools, only use martial art skills for self defense and protect justice.
 * 6) Be studious, strengthen the mind, enrich one's thought & behavior.
 * 7) Live simply, with chastity, loyalty, high principles and ethics.
 * 8) Build up a spirit of steely determination and vigor, overcome powers of violence.
 * 9) Make intelligent judgments, carry out struggles with perseverance and act with alertness.
 * 10) Be self-confident, self-controlled, modest and generous.

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