i call shenanigans here for a couple reasons...MMA guys are severely hampered due to the rules and conditions of engagement in a real fight. randy couture might beat me w/ a rear naked choke in a ring w/ gloves and a ref...if he tries that shxt in a bar, my friends are going to be cracking pool cues over his overpaid dome while i'm laughing my way out of the choke. same goes for a street fight vs an mma fight...lots of guys survive slams in UFC and elsewhere all the time. if i scoop you and drop you against the curb of a sidewalk, you're not going to talk right again. ever. by that same token, most traditioanl martial arts no longer train you to kill a man, they train for sport. they aren't suppossed to be combat arts anymore, or least, are barely so. but most certainly put a lot more emphasis on physical fitness then the average MMA mcdojo.
as for traditional martial arts vs mma...again, depends on the environment. spear hand is useful in a fight, if you get a chance to throw it. a dive into a double leg is effective too, but i bet most folks won't try that more than twice on the street if the takedown gets stuffed. in the end, a missed spear hand leaves a trained master fine, he's conditioned his hand to that kind of strike. condition your knees for road rash and we'll talk. but that'd be different if we were fighting on grass...or a feild of mostly jagged rocks or right next to a body of fast moving water or in a ring or, etc... lots of pro athletes, footballers, wrestlers, boxers, MMA guys have thought themselves pretty damned good at fighting...and found out later that when some pissed off cowboy busts a couple beer bottles over their head or cheap shot kicks them in the nuts or punches them w/ his keys, that all that training means squat outside the environment they trained for. mike tyson was pretty good at boxing and very strong...but he lost his cherry in prison, so i guess he wasn't that tough.
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