Post by bbqpit on May 8, 2013 21:50:25 GMT -5
Hello, I post on the Y!A with the same user name I am using on here.
Basically I'm a guy with a traditional back ground but learned long ago about the short comings of traditional training methods, so I do my best to share my experience with people. I tend to rub people the wrong way when I do this, but I do it actually for concern for my fellow martial artists.
Before the UFC, if you watch street fighters you'll see them try to emulate boxing or some crude form of wrestling. That's because boxing by an large was the closest thing to fighting that was common. Now days, it's not uncommon to see people with no training try to pull guard, go for a take down or choke. That's because of the prevalence of MMA. Before the UFC martial arts were sort of mysterious and no one knew anything about them. Today, even a lot of non-martial artists know how to defeat people who are trained primarily by traditional methods. It is for this reason it is so important that our training is realistic because the average punk today isn't as clueless as the punk before the UFC/MMA.
This is not a knock on traditional martial arts, but a knock on the training methods. I fully believe that many good arts are held back by unrealistic training methods, such as light to no contact sparring, ridiculous rules such as no punching to the face, too much time spent on learning techniques that are done completely different than how we would do it in real time combat... the list goes on. I am more of a fan of MMA's training methods than I am the arts that make up MMA.
So, I said all that to let people know where I am coming from. So if I offend anyone, first know that I don't mean it personally. Also know that I have strong reasons to believe what I believe and am not shy about sharing my opinion with anyone. I have no problem with making the distinction between the art and the way the art is usually taught.
But anyway, glad to be here
Basically I'm a guy with a traditional back ground but learned long ago about the short comings of traditional training methods, so I do my best to share my experience with people. I tend to rub people the wrong way when I do this, but I do it actually for concern for my fellow martial artists.
Before the UFC, if you watch street fighters you'll see them try to emulate boxing or some crude form of wrestling. That's because boxing by an large was the closest thing to fighting that was common. Now days, it's not uncommon to see people with no training try to pull guard, go for a take down or choke. That's because of the prevalence of MMA. Before the UFC martial arts were sort of mysterious and no one knew anything about them. Today, even a lot of non-martial artists know how to defeat people who are trained primarily by traditional methods. It is for this reason it is so important that our training is realistic because the average punk today isn't as clueless as the punk before the UFC/MMA.
This is not a knock on traditional martial arts, but a knock on the training methods. I fully believe that many good arts are held back by unrealistic training methods, such as light to no contact sparring, ridiculous rules such as no punching to the face, too much time spent on learning techniques that are done completely different than how we would do it in real time combat... the list goes on. I am more of a fan of MMA's training methods than I am the arts that make up MMA.
So, I said all that to let people know where I am coming from. So if I offend anyone, first know that I don't mean it personally. Also know that I have strong reasons to believe what I believe and am not shy about sharing my opinion with anyone. I have no problem with making the distinction between the art and the way the art is usually taught.
But anyway, glad to be here