MMA or Mixed Martial Arts combines a variety of full contact sport techniques and styles with a competitive edge. This includes both stand-up and on the ground skills such as kick boxing, Karate, Judo, wrestling and Muay Thai. MMA allows one to fight with the whole body by combining the arts of throwing, striking and joint manipulating techniques.
MMA or Mixed Martial Arts combines a variety of full contact sport techniques and styles with a competitive edge. This includes both stand-up and on the ground skills such as kick boxing, Karate, Judo, wrestling and Muay Thai. MMA allows one to fight with the whole body by combining the arts of throwing, striking and joint manipulating techniques.
UFC 110 has been dominating the MMA blogs this week, as fighter stats, rumours and predictions circulate prior to the event. Enthusiasts and commentators, bloggers and writers are all giving their two-cents’ worth on who the best fighter is, the physical and mental strategies to be employed, and who will win the fight.
Karate is a martial art that was developed in Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands. When considering a martial art as a new hobby or way of keeping fit, many have justifiable concerns as to how violent martial arts actually are. As Shotokan Dojo, the Chief Instructor once pointed out - with the media portraying film icons using martial arts training to attack and kill, it is no wonder that many view the practise as too aggressive to be considered a viable new hobby for them or indeed their child.
The meaning, teachings, and whole point of martial arts is definately not violence. The intent of martial arts is, and has always been, to train, educate, and improve the mental health and physical well-being of the participant. It has always held true that some have used the martial arts against people in violent acts, but this is clearly against the majority of their original intents.