Kashao School of Martial Arts

The Kashao School of Martial Arts is a "school" only in the loosest sense. Instead of a fighting style, Kashao Martial Arts could be considered a form of "lifestyle fu" - a philosophy of living that approaches lifestyle almost as a form of combat in its own right. Specifically, this school revolves around the idea of living well without actually having to work or spend money; it is a school of con-artistry, in which practitioners manipulate and prey upon others to furnish themselves with goods, services and luxuries without having to spend any money of their own. Practitioners use charm and guile to entice others into providing them with things like meals, trips elsewhere, clothing or other luxuries, before using excuses and quick escapes to flee from responsibility, leaving their apparent friends or even love interests to bear the financial burden. A dedicated practitioner will live like a total vagabond, sleeping in shelters made of cardboard and newspaper if they cannot swindle others into furnishing them with a hotel room, and eating wild-foraged food or garbage if they can't coax others into feeding them.

The only known practitioner of this style in the Ranma 1/2 canon is Kinnosuke Kashao, a seventh generation practitioner of this family style. Nabiki Tendo, unknowingly, is also a skilled practitioner of its basic tenets, enough so that she inspired Kinnosuke to challenge her to a duel out of a sense of pride. She intuitively grasped the basic concept of this "debt fu" and proved able to match him in kind.