Originally posted by Shao Lin Long
First of all, UFC is not REAL fighting, its more of a sport. All traditional martial arts(or almost all) were developed for maiming or killing an opponent, so wether u like it or not the mayority of their techniques ARE prohibited in this type of competition.
If a person can't use the principles of their art without using "lethal" techniques, I question their training. A grappler can take you down, mount you and eye gouge you, or fish hook you from a rear mount, etc. but can also operate outside of that environment.
the majority of tma techniques are NOT limited, only a small handfull of them.
Their sole aim is to try to disable an opponent as fast as you can because they were developed in times were war was common and were society wasn't bound by any laws so you had to practice this techniques to defend your life even if it meant taking the one of another person.
1. any MA in a fight wants to take you out ASAP
2. most martial arts were NOT designed for use in wars and battles. they were village styles, family styles, etc. used for protection.
An other point,in traditional martial arts(at least kung fu) they don't teach you to trade blows with ones opponents until one drops, they teach you to block and dodge until you see an opening, then hit or grab or pull one of the opponents vital points to take him down so in matches of boxing and kickboxing alike they are also limited, not only because alot of the techniques are prohinited because they may MAIM or KILL, but because they also were gloves and this limits the practitioner not only to normal punches(no other punches like phoenix eye, no other hand attack like the palm, and no grabs and hold) but it also reduces the ability to knockdown an opponent with little blows to weak parts(as trained in traditional martial arts) because the gloves reduce the impact. So traditional martial arts may not do well in those competition but in real fighting, where everything counts, Traditional martial arts are very effective.
strikes like the phoenix eye are not prohibited in MMA and you can do them with mma gloves on. the gloves allow for hand dexterity, and you can grab, lock, phoenix eye, etc.
I'm not saying that MMA don't work on the street(because they also really work on the streets) but only resalting that TMA fair better on the streets than in a ring or a competition.
nonsense.
We really should look back at why this types of "sport fighting" arts emerged: because in now a days confrotations on the streets are rare(well in most places), so to keep the fighting aspects of the martial arts alive they were developed(but in a sport way: with rules and restrictions).
this is true. a great example is judo. During the meiji, after the tokugawa, there was no need for soldiers, and the use of the sword was banned.
part two to the story though - kano and his judo guys whooped up on the jujutsu guys. why? because the judo format allowed them to spar.
But traditional martial arts taught the right way(which may be rare to find now a days), teaching not only forms but their combat aplications and practicing them with parteners endlessly to engraved them in the practitioners' muscles memory, are extremely deadly.
those applications are practiced via cooperative drills though...