Mixed Martial Arts is a street fight, Combat Karate is a Sport

a reply to: AlienView

MMA is exactly that... "Mixed" martial arts...

Karate is one of the many...

Personally I liked UFC when there was different styles competing way back in the day...

now everyone is MMA... its still good, but it will never been what it once was...

You'll never see a Sumo wrestler, or just Karate... its always Mixed... a few striking styles mixed with Jujitsu...

the old days were far better

At least boxing never changes... and Tyson is coming back

a reply to: LABTECH767
Interesting video. 15:00 - 15:30. I see the parallels. What he did not clear up, but maybe will later in the video is that there is a second factor to this, best demonstrated how to dissolve blocks and it touches the thing I wrote to projectvxn:

Triggering false responses and reflexes in the opponent. Put pressure on the block for a short time, the brain or reflexes will tell the muscles in your arms to tens up into the direction of the force. When that happens it is way more easy to shove away the block to the side, up or down while utilizing this force and deflect it.

This is one reason while Wing Tsun teaches the practitioner to be relaxed, but with core strength. Exactly what the gentleman is talking about in the video.

Different explanation: To counter any force that is physically to strong to stop it in it's path, you deflect it. Someone throws a bag of rice down on you, you do not try to block it but deflect it away. If that is done it allows someone to steal momentum from the bag of rice.

In the follow video, go to 3:30. Now it would be better for the student to have no vision for learning but this is a demonstration video. Watch how that fake block (for demonstration) is relative stable and hard to dissolve.

I seen from watching the student that he is on the way to get good at defending these block dissolves.

Now watch what happens if you add two angles in a very short time, like the teacher does at 4:30.

a reply to: Shibari

Yeah I just added the giant for a bit of light relief, probably a fake video but who know's.

India has many martial styles as do many other regions of the world but I am not sure his claim that India is the root of all martial art's bears any merit, certainly it influenced the rest of Asia and beyond very greatly but there were once very many other martial styles in other parts of the world including Europe before the age of the gun ended most of them.
For example the Red Branch Knight's of Eira (Ireland) once practiced art's that are only hinted at but make them sound almost like ninja warrior's, to become a Red Branch Knight they had to train and were said to be able to jump more than there own height, run through a forest while being chased without breaking a twig (silently) etc which can only elude to a lost martial style.
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And of course Eira stood at an odd place in Europe, an Island that was close to Britain much of the ancient world's main source of Copper which was important for making bronze and so they had cultural link's to Africa and the middle east, some claim even further afield as well.

The Roman's practiced ancient martial styles that were based on group tactic's but they knew how to fight solo as well if need be but there main enemy when the legions were created were the Celtic tribes of Europe, like the Red Branch Knight's these other celtic people's practiced a martial society, there elite earned there place through prowess and this was more important than heritage in there society, they failed against the Roman's not because they were worse fighters but because there fighting style favored singly combat and they were not able to adapt to group tactic's so could not counter the new Roman Legion's then they set out to conquer the Celtic world, we know nothing of there unarmed fighting styles but every culture practiced various styles from wrestling to boxing (not as we do it today) and also stick and sword fighting styles.

In the middle ages before the gun took over the main and favorite weapon was the quarterstaff, basically a big stick and it is recorded that an expert in the quarterstaff was thought more deadly than a swordsman but of course sword's were status symbol, still the most effective weapon other than the bow in European combat before the age of the gun was the pole arm, this came in various form's from the later halberd to the earlier bladed quarterstaff and even in the early decades of the gun powder age it remains one of the most dangerous weapons on the battlefield.
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These are also interesting.



Most of today's interest in martial art's is due to athletic interest as well as the fighting for money MMA which is actually as old as the world in my opinion just stick a new name on it to make it respectable and bring it out of the shadow's.

But perhaps the greatest recent (relative) flowering of martial art's arose during the last five hundred years, in the slave community's of the america's fighting styles were developed sometime's drawing on known styles brought over from Africa and blended with the styles of native american slaves with whom the African (and sometime's white) lived.
Of course everyone know's about Capoeira said to have arisen in Brazil.


Indeed the link between dancing and martial fighting styles is an ancient one as well with many traditional dancing styles actually having probably martial origin's.