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MMA: Its Own Martial Art
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MMA has become its own style of martial art. In the early days of MMA you had different styles of martial arts competing against each other (i.e. karate vs. boxing). Then you had (and still have today at some schools) the conglomeration of styles taught separately and then put together in the ring or cage. For example, you might train jiu-jitsu for an hour, then box, then wrestle. You would not put these things together until you fought.
Now, in today’s fight world, MMA is becoming its own style. It borrows from other styles, taking only effective techniques, but it also has techniques unique to the sport, like cage walking. I think the fight game has evolved making MMA its own style. Pretty soon people will be getting there black belts in MMA.
So that being said, will MMA be the demise of other martial arts. Did MMA kill boxing? Or is boxing still alive in MMA? Will MMA kill karate, Tae kwon do etc. or is it just a filter taking the best techniques and leaving the ineffective techniques to languish and die?
MMA has become its own style of martial art, but I don’t think it will wipe out other martial arts. What it has become is a good representation of the best techniques from martial arts around the world. People will want to learn it, because it works, because it’s not just theory, and because they are fans of the sport. MMA is it’s own martial art.
