Q&A: Sports Approach Watering Down Martial Arts?
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Are combat sports watering down the combative dynamic of martial arts. This is a great question, and we hope to hear your thoughts as well!
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Agree wholeheartedly. I think the key is keeping the live resistance as a major part of the training. It shows you what works and what doesn’t.
Couldn't agree more. I think martial is a mindset that should compliment the skillset. Of course you and I know BJJ is not Combatives, but they play hand in hand and are far from the dichotomy many people make them out to be!
COMBAT SPORTS = Applicable training and a willingness to learn engagement and warrior ethos.
COMBATIVES = Combat Sports skills mixed with all the dirty tricks and with a different outcome in mind.
At the end of the day, the dirty tricks don't work without understanding the skills and principles on which they stand.
I very much appreciate you taking the question, and your take on it! I look forward to reflecting on it after work.
I would definitely love your feedback as well! My response here is merely in relation to the direct question, but I believe we both know this is a much deeper discussion. Competitive Sport is not free world street combat, but neither is the most commonly practiced versions of "Traditional Martial Arts" either. There is a necessity to be physically capable via skill & ability, as well as the necessity to ready both mentally and psychologically in a real world use of force scenario. I do tend to believe the current state of combat sports lends better to becoming physically capable (the overall levels of exertion against resistance as well as the stress inoculation associated with live training), but that does not address the mental aspects and realities of unregulated violence.
You can have a very technical TKD or Karate instructor who can teach you the self defense and combat side of training. You can also have a bad MMA coach who will get you hurt in a self defense setting. Training is a mindset and we can what if style vs style all day. Truth is putting in the work and putting in resistance and some sting in those strikes goes a long way. I think a lot goes back to the question what is your reasoning for training.
I couldn't agree more! The epistemology of training supersedes any system name. Additionally, I would never fool heartedly view MMA or BJJ as combatives. Similar skillsets, but completely different mindset. My biggest point is the importance of live resistance and learning to be physical in your training environment. At a minimum this will show reality on non-compliance and express the physicality of engagement.
Additionally, it is necessary to understand the difference between mutual combat (whether ego based or sport based), Self Defense (where avoid, evade are king) and Combat where you must aggress a threat... Furthermore, self-defense can quickly become combat especially when there is a moral / ethical necessity to defend a 3rd party.
As a lifelong practitioner of "Traditional Martial Arts" I think combat sports have helped infuse the live resistance that was lost somewhere along the way!
Great comment sir, and greatly appreciated