Originally Posted by
MightyB
Since everyone one likes to talk about this $hit...
You should understand the western boxer's guard and defense (and train it).
You should understand the need for basic strength training and conditioning (and train it).
You should understand the fundamentals of the basic ground game (and train it).
Do you, as a TCMAist, need to know anymore than what's posted above? No - not really. Those three things if trained properly will increase your understanding of the sporting combative arts and you'll gain some good knowledge that you can use in self defense... after that you got all that you need from the sporting world and you're free to get back with your training. Enough of this MMA crap already.
I would just add some clinch work and hitting on the clinch.
I see what you are getting at and it is basically what I have been saying all these years: Know your enemy.
One doesn't have to stop being a TCMA, one just has to test and drill against what the "enemy" is doing.
As Ace Ventura once said, " to understand the dolphin one must become the dolphin, get inside the dolphins head...I say to the dolphin "acka, acka acka" and the dolphin says, "acka, acka, acka",...and you can quote me !!!
*spits on ground*
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !