Martial Arts Experiences Discussion Thread

[Naperville]

MMA Video - Don't play with anyone

That kind of clowning around is what finally got Anderson Silva knocked out, when he was still considered untouchable.

Jim

At that level it is not a good look, and anybody can be knocked out. You don't want robots, but too much goofing around is going to backfire. Dana White sold his business I believe, and he does not like making too many rules on his fighters but he should put out a memo on this.

Apparently, UFC / MMA viewership is down, due to at least a few factors. I haven't really watched MMA for many years; I only occasionally check out a clip here or there on YT. For the most part, I lost most of my interest in watching combat sports at all. Especially now, with the growing awareness of CTE.

About the only thing that Dana White / TKO cares about is the $$$.

Jim

I thought the UFC was going to display the best arts competing against each other. I was wrong. We are no longer seeing much art. I would say the first 50 fights were about the different arts. Just two arts used now:

Ground = BJJ
Striking = Muay Thai or Kickboxing

They seem to have run out of martial art matchups and everyone is studying the same techniques. That is why it is boring.

CTE is a huge issue especially when you consider most of the fighters make very little and there is no insurance policy to protect the fighters. The last video that you had on this subject was telling.

[James Y]

That kind of clowning around is what finally got Anderson Silva knocked out, when he was still considered untouchable.

Jim

At that level it is not a good look, and anybody can be knocked out. You don't want robots, but too much goofing around is going to backfire. Dana White sold his business I believe, and he does not like making too many rules on his fighters but he should put out a memo on this.

Apparently, UFC / MMA viewership is down, due to at least a few factors. I haven't really watched MMA for many years; I only occasionally check out a clip here or there on YT. For the most part, I lost most of my interest in watching combat sports at all. Especially now, with the growing awareness of CTE.

About the only thing that Dana White / TKO cares about is the $$$.

Jim

I thought the UFC was going to display the best arts competing against each other. I was wrong. We are no longer seeing much art. I would say the first 50 fights were about the different arts. Just two arts used now:

Ground = BJJ
Striking = Muay Thai or Kickboxing

They seem to have run out of martial art matchups and everyone is studying the same techniques. That is why it is boring.

CTE is a huge issue especially when you consider most of the fighters make very little and there is no insurance policy to protect the fighters. The last video that you had on this subject was telling.

The modern sport MMA has become its own 'system'. Mostly limited to selected aspects of BJJ, Muay Thai, wrestling, and boxing. Wrestling has become more dominant in the grappling aspect than BJJ. Occasionally, Judo and Karate are incorporated by practitioners of those arts (often very successefully). But UFC / MMA ceased being about practitioners from different arts facing each other back in the '90s.

That last video I posted here with the fighter telling why being an MMA fighter is a bad career choice is one of the best on the subject.

The vast majority of the people who make fun of other martial arts and practitioners in comments sections for "not testing your art in the UFC" are wannabes who have no idea what they're talking about, are not fighters themselves, and have most likely never even competed in even one amateur martial arts sparring / fighting competition in their lives, let alone in MMA or boxing, etc. The types with that mentality are fanboys. How people think and communicate tells a lot about themselves.

Jim

[James Y]

Mistaken Identity Leads to Blows in Russia!



Kind of a misleading title. It was one blow, a very hard slap. I watched it to see if the contact/focus point was on the palm heel, but it looks like it was a regular, very sudden and hard slap with the whole hand, right on the side of the jaw.

Watching this made me feel very uneasy, because in my younger days, I KO'd two different guys with single slaps, very similarly to that. We were being stupid, and they were 'mutual combat' situations (meaning not true self-defense). Neither of them passed away; but under slightly different conditions or circumstances, we never really know what those outcomes might have been. If things had happened differently, it could have been me who got clocked, fallen down and hit my head. Hindsight is always 20/20. Mutual combat situations are almost always avoidable.

That is why it's imperative, as much as is humanly possible, to avoid getting into fights, physical or otherwise, and to only use violence in self-defense, if and when great bodily harm is a very real probability if you do not take action. It had better be justified, because whatever the result, once you take violent action, just like a bullet fired from a gun, it cannot be taken back.

My guess is that the driver who delivered the KO is a psychopath, with zero impulse control. He did it with no more concern than if he were swatting a fly.

Jim

[James Y]

Shock at the Grand Slam Tournament



IMO, the Kazakh was perfectly justified in doing what she did to the Belgian.

Jim

[James Y]

Why Were the Edge of Hand and Side Kick Really Included in the Fairbairn System?



Jim

[James Y]

"He Jumped Over What?"

Not necessarily martial arts-related, but very impressive athleticism and control. Doing some things I haven't seen any other Parkour practitioners do (the water touching).



Jim