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Originally Posted by Tomsdad
tl;dr GURPS Martial Arts is not a scholarly work looking to describe the complete real world history and range of Martial Arts. it's an RPG rules supplement for modelling martial arts in that RPG system and includes some examples of RL styles. If your RL knowledge tells you some Chinese martial arts have Kursari (or the local equivalent) in, add them in. So long as you do so according to the format of the examples given in MA you wont break the system or Real life.
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It's also surprisingly easy to build your own while doing a little bit of homework. Find out what some typical tactics and approaches for a typical style are, or what styles it is "similar" to, and then build the style out of the necessary skills, techniques and perks to allow the description to match the mechanics, and if it's "similar" to another style you've seen stated, borrow heavily from that one.
China in particular is very underrepresented in GURPS Martial Arts, not because there's a lack of Chinese styles in the book, but because of the sheer volume of Chinese Martial Arts (Granted, many of them aren't so substantially different that each one would look so distinct: how many variations of Karate/Judo do we want?), so it's hardly surprising that we're missing some.