That's great! Good to meet you too.
Your nation is huge, so the native martial arts sound diverse. I bet there are some very old schools.The only Indian art within a two hour drive from me is a Silat school.
I'm familiar with four Chinese arts. Two are hard/ soft styles of Kung Fu. They incorporated weapons in advanced training with bo and jo staffs. I probably should have started with the simpler Japanese Shotokan after western boxing instead. My dad was a boxer in the military circuit. The kung Fu was complex and circular, but had been tested in combat a few times. The low stances and footwork are somewhat slower, but powerfully rooted. It came in handy when the highschool and university jocks tried to take me down. I didn't get into much ground fighting until later. BJJ is big here too. You'll see one of my teachers use what looks like it in the video I'll post, but this was before BJJ was ever in the area. He was showing us things that looked like Chin Na. He would always correct anyone asking with, "NO! FILIPINO! FILIPINO!
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I really loved Professor Presas' weapons training the most. Here's some of his basic ground fighting techniques.