MMA..new?

How many guys out there have found wing chun to be a good style? All we ever get these days is - WC is all about secret strikes and mixed martial arts is better - Ive done WC since the 90s and as far as MMA goes i reckon its just another way for the sifus of today to get the extra dollar. Honestly, how many people are really proficient in more than one art? Wasnt combining judo with boxing a mixed martial art back in the day? Any decent teacher would take a style and use techniques from other styles. They would still market themselves as one art tho..nowadays its a different story.

 

Welcome back mel....still flogging a dead horse i see

 

yeah still speaking my mind hannibal...still disagreeing with me I see...do you have your latest UFC mag by your side? Judo n boxing..theres a mix...tell me please what there is about todays MMA that makes it SO special....

 

Still making incorrect assumptions to support your position as well? Awesome

MMA is an integrated approach rather than just slapping arts together - it has no style bias and therefore is brutally honest in it's pragmatism. With no agenda or political spin one is free from personal bias and what rises to the surface is the cream rather than the crap

It is consistently pressure tested and theory is not permissable without praxis to endorse it.

It does not rely on lineage, tradition or myth to explain itself and can provide countless hours of documented evidence that cannot be exaggerated or out and out lied about

The practitioners approach it as athletes and train their attributes to a peak so they are ever more dangerous than some out of shape bloater practicing a style that only worked against peasants

 

Why don't we see WC guys doing well in reasonable numbers in MMA?

 

or "at all"

 

So anyone who teaches this MMA obviously come from one martial art....Personally Ive found WC to be a great art. What I dont understand is why MMA is touted as the best MA in the world when the guy teaching it learnt something before teaching and you cant just combine arts like youre mixing drinks....

 

No you can't - there has to be a synthesis

MMA is an integrated approach not an art in and of itself

 

Technically no one should be teaching MMA - you train via the part method and blend the results

this is the way i train my JKD by the way...the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

 

You can spar wing chun. Stop basing your life onyourself

 

Who was that aimed at mel? Your "throwing mud at the wall" posting style makes things confusing

 

Melb, I asked you a question. It's pertinent to the discussion. If MMA was simply a repackaging and remarketting of old concepts, would not WC practicioners be competent and capable with what's going on in an MMA match? Why does this not seem to be the case?

 

WC guys arent training for a ring fight...and never have

 

Translation - too scared

 

problem is you guys say whatever style does well in a glove fight is good and everything else is rubbish. My point is a real fight happens without gloves and its best to know how to fight without gloves..I think trapping is a great skill but unfortunately the emphasis these days is on 'fight with gloves on and wrestle as well....

 

Mel how many more times, NONE OF MY FIGHTS ARE IN THE RING

ALL and I do mean ALL are done at "street level"

 

OK Hannibal..and tell me how is it that you have avoided going to prison?

 

Jeebers, Pretty much everyone on here knows why I have had literally hundreds of scraps and have never been in jail....work it out buttercup