That's a good statement but it's backwards. I think a smart MMa should take Kung Fu to improve his game.
When somebody with a solid, mostly TCMA background, who doesn't have a bunch of wrestling/boxing/muay thai titles prior to their TCMA experience manages to succeed in the ring, they will.
The dumb MMA with an abtuse mind set will continue to think that the MMA way is the only way to fight.
The MMA way is to train hard, drill hard and occasionally go full contact with appropriate safety gear.
How is that a bad way to train to fight?
Now, since I happen to think these distinctions are meaningless, except as a convenient shorthand, the conversation seems a bit moot to me...but these sorts of things are always fun.
Last edited by Merryprankster; 07-01-2006 at 05:20 PM.
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