Quote Originally Posted by YouKnowWho View Post
Maybe we should list all the "worthless TCMA techniques" here one by one. This way we can examine whether those techniques are truly worthless, or may be people just don't know how to apply it.

What are those "worthless techniques"?
Your troll-fu is excellent.

Quantifying "worthless techniques" is also irrelevant to the discussion.

We can assume there is a set of techniques that don't work as evidenced by the fact that BJJ tended to win in the early UFCs when it was style-based.

Therefore, let us assume that:

Techniques(BJJ) = useful
Call this variable U.

and

Techniques(non-BJJ) = worthless
Call this variable W

It is safe to assume that amongst all the UFC competitors, some had spent a long time (L) practicing their techniques and had very good "gong," and others were noobs who hadn't been training very long (S) and just wanted to go prove how tough they were.

So there are 4 sets of combatants:

UL
US
WL
WS

It is safe to assume random pairings of competitors, so you have potentially:

UL vs UL
UL vs US
UL vs WL
UL vs WS

US vs US
US vs WL
US vs WS

WL vs WL
WL vs WS

WS vs WS

Now considering that BJJ always won, we can assume that in the case of Ux vs Wx, the other variables don't matter, since some of those victories were in fact US vs WL.

And just for fun, lets add the anecdotal evidence that nearly anyone who has gone from TCMA --> BJJ/MMA has experienced, and that is having years of experience in TCMA and being easily defeated by a noob in BJJ. And then also being a noob in BJJ and easily defeating people with years of experience in TCMA.

Conclusion:

Subsets of "useful" and "worthless" techniques exist, and time spent training developing "gong" in worthless techniques is not going to benefit one in combat, even if they are "good" at the techniques.





Disclaimer: unless said techniques are "too deadly for the ring" and/or qi blasts. Then of course you would win!