Yin Yang Stone Chinese Symbol of Balance
Everyone who sits in front of a television, is really only looking for one thing, is to be entertained, so in speaking of watching MMA events, you are only being entertained, and at your expense, either paying your electric bill, or watching a cage match at an arena.
Watching a boxing or kickboxing match, or a Martial-Arts tournament event, not only it is there to entertain you, but it demonstrates the true spirit of the marital arts or the sport of fighting, which MMA does not demonstrate other than hybrid or modified martial arts.
Athletes compete for the prize, but which type of fighter has the true discipline, of fighting, and knowing the difference from true martial arts from modernized ring fights to only make the real cash, instead of facing the real world at a desk job 8-5 with a college degree making a living with an educated mind?
MMA Random Fights
From the perspective of the MMA entertainment, they are not telling you where most of the fighters are found, but it seems to be a good majority of them are found either in Senior High School or College Universities wrestling teams, and the top competitors are chosen to become MMA stars. Those who study several of other Martial-Arts, and are found in tournament circuits or in professional kickboxing events, are usually acceptable to the rule to enter to the MMA competition, and they are usually considered to be true martial artist.
World Combat League
Random Kick Boxing Fights
But the question too many ask, what is real martial arts, if only MMA shows the blood pool of the fighters who only come out cocky competitors who ruin, destroy, and manipulate the audience to what is the Martial Arts? Not only MMA has become a sport event in the arena, but it does not utilize other Martial-Art Strikes or the use of weapons, when a fight is to begin from both fighters. TMA (Traditional Martial Arts), well it teaches practical if not just basic, but the difference what it means to defend yourself in a street confrontation.
Real Life Threatening Situation
Interviewed by experienced TMA
The difference, MMA fighters, who are usually H.S. or College Wrestlers, are not taught about weapon tactics from an attack, to where you can save your life one day. TMA, most martial art schools, especially traditional Jiu-Jitsu, will at least teach weapon self defense situations, where you can save your life, and come out the victor of the fight and not become a victim. MMA is only giving you the ring side of the event. But TMA, not only demonstrates weapon self-defense concepts, but also in the case of multiple attackers on the street, and in a daily confrontation with someone dominating your path overpowering you with their strength and muscle.
Hapkido Korean Martial Arts
Self-Defense Concepts
Regardless of what style the practitioner chooses to learn of the (TMA) Traditional Martial-Arts of self-defense, what matters, who is the instructor to teach basic applications, to where it can be useful to save ones life in the street. Basic self-defense, is traditional Martial-Arts, where the foundation of the Martial-Arts, comes from the basics of self-defense. Weather it be able to defend and/or offend from a weapon, to be able to use a weapon on the street, to learn how to fall to the ground, in case the fight ends up on the ground, and be quick enough to get back on his/her own feet to survive from a life and death situation.
Weapons Self Defense
If you rather wish to take the fight to the ground “without” proper training and real skill, while a weapon is used against you, and you could end up later in the hospital, which would you learn to save your own life or the life of a loved one, learn MMA or TMA? If you ever end up in the hospital from a stab wound, or from a serious strike from a base ball bat, ask your doctor, while he is performing surgery or bandaging your wound, “ Hey Doc, if you were in my previous situation, what would you prefer to learn, MMA or TMA, and walk away without being a victim of a crime?”. If he tells you other wise to walk away, then you can only learn from the actual experience, and you will see the difference of wanting to become the victor of the fight.
MMA fighters, who mostly seem to be H.S. and College competitive wrestlers, could not understand the concept about the spirit of Martial-Arts, unless they are trained and taught properly to distinguish what it means to save your life, than from trying to make a living from cage fighting rather than educating the mind to make living in the real world with real world skills in the job market.
Those who study the Martial-Arts, especially in the young peer group, are given the understanding the concept of receiving an education, and to be prepared not only in self-defense, but to be prepared for the real world to make an honest living through education and understand the job market in the real world.
Comments
Unfortunately, many of the techniques that are taught in TMA are never going to see the light of day due to the fact that they are complex motor skills. The reality of a true attack will be accompanied by extreme levels of adrenaline, which make many of these 4 and 5 step "techniques" near impossible to get to.
In the above demonstrations, cooperation, timing, respect, and quiet are present. In the street, fear, screaming, concrete, dark, and strange environments add to the mix, where there is no "do-over" or cooperation between the assailants.
Many TMA instructors have separated those training methods of the "arts", which I truly enjoy as a personal growth practice and focusing tool, from self defense. Many dojo's are coming into the fold with teaching reality self defense in which the traditional training model is modified to bring a more realistic approach to street conflict training.
Ask yourself what might be different about a real conflict. A lot happens before a pu
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