Thread: Martial Arts

Originally Posted by wendylove

I'm thinking off taking up MMA, however I'm in college and don't have a job, which makes me really poor. Although it is half term soon, so I can get a job then.

To be honest, every fighting style is flawed in someway. Jeet Kune Do and Muay tai seem to be the least flawed, and jodo seems to be the most flawed. Sorry, but I'm not really a throwing people person, more of a puncher or a kicker.

The best advice to give when fighting, is not to stand still but instead move to the persons side and behind him. I hate in on tv when they fight like their is only two dimensions.

That's what Annoys me with UFC, watching two welter weights just punch and block for 20 minutes until one of the opponents jiu jitsu training kick in.

I find it helpfull to study a variety of styles. I'm gonna take a week free of wing chun recommended by one of my friends.

Originally Posted by ranma187

That's what Annoys me with UFC, watching two welter weights just punch and block for 20 minutes until one of the opponents jiu jitsu training kick in.

I think good, stand-up fights are the most entertaining to watch. Spencer Fisher and Sam Stout gave one of the best fights ever in UFC History (in my -and the announcers' - opinion), and they made it a point to stay on their feet and punch and kick the shit out of each other. They went all three rounds.

Since I've trained in grappling I find good ground fights the most entertaining to watch. Not the ones where they go to the ground and punch each other, but ones with real good grappling with arm locks and hip sweeps and such.

Jeet Kune Do has some problems. A lot of the techniques that I've seem are based on muscles, judo and ju jitsu are all about leverage and they do it very well.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Since I've trained in grappling I find good ground fights the most entertaining to watch. Not the ones where they go to the ground and punch each other, but ones with real good grappling with arm locks and hip sweeps and such.

Don't get me wrong; I'm one of those people that can definitely find the beauty in a good grappling match - more-so than many of the people that watch UFC just to see "the fighting." There is just something about an amazing stand-up fight that gets me, though. I just love the precision and the exchanges. But then, I'm the time that likes a good K-1 match just about as good as a cage match, so...

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Jeet Kune Do has some problems. A lot of the techniques that I've seem are based on muscles, judo and ju jitsu are all about leverage and they do it very well.

I think both types of styles compliment each other. I mean, they both have their flaws. Fighting, in general, encompasses both stand-up and ground game. You can't train in one while neglecting the other, and still expect to have all-around skill, ya know?

Jeek Kune Do, though, actually makes room for grapple-based styles as well. Bruce Lee was never really a student of them, though. The closest he got to a grapple style (if I remember correctly) is wing chun, but Jeet Kune Do, as a philosophy, is grapple-inclusive.

I find the UFC fundamentally flawed when it comes to promoting martial arts. I've seem students who just want to learn to fight, or come into a studio thinking that they already know how to fight just from watching that and screwing around with it with their friends. I refuse to teach them.

I also occasionally have people tell me that what I know sucks because it's not good for the UFC. Most have no training, or very poor training from someone not qualified to teach. Why is it that first degree blackbelts suddenly think that they can teach martial arts? Even worse, why is it that they think they can tell students that things that I'll teach them doesn't work, I've done it five times longer than him and used it in real self defense situations (as well as MMA matches.)

They say that our forms are useless because they don't reflect fights. They're for learning coordination and balance. No matter how well you hit the bag, you aren't winning any fight without balance and coordination.

I think that martial arts is for self defense. The UFC doesn't allow dangerous techniques that are crucial for self defense, such as groin strikes, neck strikes, or dim mak.



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Originally Posted by ninja9578

They say that our forms are useless because they don't reflect fights. They're for learning coordination and balance. No matter how well you hit the bag, you aren't winning any fight without balance and coordination.

I agree that forms are useful. I think that forms greatly increase your balance and help you learn to attack and block with more force and accuracy. Also doing forms help you develop the proper technique for attacks and blocks. With proper balance, accuracy, technique and force, you can raise the effectiveness of any movement.

Doing forms is basic; it is a very important foundation if you want to be a good martial-artist.