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How does the person not advancing train in the more advanced classes within the curriculum. Or are MMA fighters just perfecting basics?

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What I'm asking is for example...I am going to class every Tuesday and Thursday night..I have belt tesat next week. Guy next to me is just training to have Variety, Fill in gaps etc....

So these guys training for MMA arent going the traditional route. They may have that in their background but now may be less concerned with ranks than what's needed to better their game?

Reason I...

I know Judo has belts but how are they earned?

Is it x number of techniques etc or as BJJ is decribed above?

Is it like that in Judo also?

Forgot that MT doesnt have ranks...oooops.

Do people that cross train various arts for MMA or SD purposes train as normal MA students do going from white to black belt with normal classes or are they training more informally in these arts and...

Do you mean TCMA? Why would forms/no forms remove the Chinese part? Forms only started about 100 years ago according to experts here?

Havent we concluded yet that forms are not necessary? The...

LOL...now that's funny...and appreciated!

Bo Fung Do is some form of KF that came from Wing Chun. Can anyone tell me a bit about it? Seems like a RBSD system which interests me. I never heard of this before. You can also check out...

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Maybe you guys are too close to the forest to see the trees but people that attend martial arts classes are consider martial artists. That includes people looking to shed pounds (not aerobics) all...

I bet. And Im sure your non-fighters can more than handle themselves in varying degrees. Maybe some can beat your fighters in a no rules setting...who knows.

Wouldnt you say that the people that...

No, but I play baseball.

The student who goes to MA to train will see himself as a martial artist...not a fighter. I'd say a fighter needs to fight whuile a martial artist needs to practice...

Who said no contact? What if student does what everyone does with fitness as the goal. Not a martial artist? Only fighters? Is that sport fighting? Street fighting? self defense? Explain that.

I...

So if you take martial arts with a goal of fitness, what are you?

What would you have to do differently to be a martial artist?

Wouldn't two people in the same school, one with a fitness goal...

Any update?

What if someone never wanted to fight and wanted to use MA purely as a means of fitness? Would forms now be a better way? Still no real benefit? Is MA a good way to atain fitness as compared to...

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Maybe you should look at my posts in this thread and see that I was very respectful and very appreciative of everyone here's views on this topic. It's very interesting to see these views...

He isn't, he can't. You just exposed him for what he is.

When people must learn to fight whether for sport, LEOs or military they do not use forms to learn. Forms are for purposes other than fighting such as prolonging the time in class to increase...

I cant help it I have to ask.....these CTS stories and all your honesty about him is great.

Please do not take this as trolling...I really need to understand this.

Are you telling me that the...

I thnk its great that guys here with great experience give honest views on the TCMA. Its interesting to see how those with knowledge and no agenda can give their views on forms, sparring etc. This is...

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Can you learn effectively this way or must you have significant experience in other arts as a base?

SORRY! JOE LOUIS!!!!!

Didnt even think of Lennox but now I'll add him.

My list isnt in order.