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Originally Posted by deadpool
Kid, you never cease to amaze me with your knowledge. Cut and paste or straight from the dome?
Do study/follow all fighting sports? I know you know volumes about pugilism and even MMA, but I was unaware that you followed kickboxing/Muay Thai.
Anyway, great info.
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Nice…….Thank you, I appreciate that.
Yup, I follow them all & I have for many, many years.
Why ?
They are all the same thing…….just with differing “Do’s and Don’ts” (i.e., Rules of engagement) when converted to a fight sport.
Boxing, Wrestling, Muay Thai, MMA, Empty hand Martial Arts………
I love em’ all.
Self evidently, if you plan to make some kind of living doing this, you’ll want to practice with focus on those aspects that are germane to that particular game, art or sport, but there’s no law about working on other things too.
Hell, even non striking Ssireum wrestlers and tackle practiced American football players can adapt their physical training to another sport, even one that emphasizes striking, can they not ? They can, and they do, because they are fighters, and athletes learn physical things fast.
Finding a “Pure” martial art these days is tantamount to finding a “pure” ethnic culture.
If you look a pre-historic migration patterns of humans, you see that everybody traveled around for the shelter and food supply, and did a lot of cross-tribe fucking along the way.
And if they had a self defense tradition, they traveled with that.
Each “system” has it’s proprietary name for every move, but there is nothing of great use out there that doesn’t exist in another system under a different name. The reality is that there are just so many things that you can do with the human frame to fight against another frame.
The value of fight sports, as outlined in my long-winded post above, is that they tend to weed out the weak theoretical techniques, within the rules, very quickly, without the need for life and death situations.
The style vs. style thing, when I see it, is irresistible to me on any forum, because it’s always more about the circumstances and the individual than it is about the “art”, and when I saw those two long-pants Kick boxers brought up in the thread title, I knew it would lead to one of those discussions.
MMA vs. Boxing is one I always love.
A Boxer is naked in a grappling & punching sport, unless he can grapple, and, less discussed but every bit as true, is that a MMA fighter would look like a buffoon without Boxing in there, making the argument absurd.
K-1 and MMA, at their very core, seek to bring this mix together, under their own promotional rules.
But the nexus of the things is……it’s all the same thing.
It's just those rules that make them come out looking unique.