Originally Posted by
TenTigers
have patience. It's starting to happen, but it's a numbers thing.
How many boxing gyms have guys going into the ring? Most are there for the workout and light sparring, as is with most MA schools, whether it's TCMA or MMA.
(Cage Fitness attests to this.MMA type training without the fighting, and it's selling like hotcakes)
As the numbers increase, as more Sifus alter their training, you will start to see TCMA in more fight comps.
The first UFC was twenty years ago,or so. Look how long it took for MMA to come mainstream.
It's funny, my old boxing coach told me once only about 10 percent of people who go to his gym and train actually ever have a fight, most are simply there for the workout or for self defense purposes. This carries over into traditional and MMA gyms as well. Reading these forums one could get the sense that all MMA or combat sport gyms are filled with muscle bound, mohawk wearing, tatted up roid ragers who beat the sh**it out of each other six hours a night. The flip side of that coin is that traditional schools are a bunch of pasty white 95 pound nerds wearing silk pajamas and posturing around like a model on a runway.
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