Yes anyone that prepares properly should able to walk into any given match and stop jabs, hooks, and double take downs.. etc etc. However, MMA Arena's are geared for Wrestlers and the like. Take away their cage and give a bit more room for movement and Stand up fighters will do better. If you change the rules and make them so stand up styles would score better and you will see the wrestlers will disappear. What I mean is give clear rules that give more points to stand up techniques and no points or penalize for wrestling techniques. What you will see is the MMA gang will not participate in these events. Just like now.... TCMA styles do NOT participate in MMA events.
I was there when they had the "Mantis Meeting" in fact they held it at my school during the Great Lakes Kung Fun Tournament. What they proposed started off sounding promising. Making a ruleset that would award fighters that used "Mantis" style techniques. One thing we talked about is Grappling and how they would implement them. One thing I think they got stuck on was... which grappling techniques were suited for tournament play. How much was too much...
But overall I think that if you have a tournament and have a ruleset that encourages TCMA styles you will see more of us come out and less of the "Grapplers", not that I don't mind grappling. I like Shuai Chiao and I like to wrestle I think that we need to maybe have different events for Stand Up style and Grappling.
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