Originally Posted by
Kellen Bassette
It breaks my heart. I love TMA. I consider myself a traditionalist. But I like to fight; I often find myself with the MMA crowd because too many TMA guys don't want to train for real.
I'm convinced the only thing MMA has on TMA is a willingness to do the real training you need for fighting. These methods came from TMA.
i'm not so sure they came from tma. why was judo created? so guys could spar and practice at full speed safely. the traditional style had techniques used for breaking and killing that couldn't be used in live training situations.
traditional karate masters gave funakoshi hell because he had his students sparring. traditional karate jutsu guys thought he was watering down the style. same with Korean styles. they may have done hard drilling - three star drills, live throwing, etc. but not sure how much in terms of hard sparring. seems like that was mainly wrestling styles and "sport ma" like judo, karate do, boxing, etc.
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