Originally Posted by
shaolin_allan
Unfortunately, most people relate what they see in movies and UFC to real fighting. Nothing could be ****her from the truth. Some people do martial arts for demonstrations, some do it for semi contact sparring tournaments, and some do it for ring fighting like UFC.
The truth is real kung fu is meant to help people and only fight if absolutely required to. In a good school light to full contact sparring is practiced with or without gear which allows the students to practice as close to real fighting as possible without the chance of getting severely injured.
Many people who practice kung-fu for the combat side do exercises and training to prepare themselves for real fighting, and do not waste their time on such a confined type of combat with so many rules.
1. training in the kwoon with people you are familiar with is NOT realistic, especially when it's only light to medium contact.
2. full contact with pads is more realistic than light contact without them
3. in competition, you are facing someone who WANTS to knock you out. This is more real than semi contact kwoon sparring with a friend.
4. rules or not, that doesn't inhibit streetfighting. I am a sport guy and also a bouncer in a club. my rule bound sport techniques work just fine.
Many UFC fighters don't do it to prove themselves as good fighters, they do it for the money mainly and for the fame also.
How many pro fighters have told you this? names? IME, it's rare that fighters fight to prove anything to anyone. they may fight for money and largely they fight because they like to compete. competition is the ultimate way to make yourself a better fighter, for various reasons.
If they originally started with traditional ways they have now moved onto more type of training like a boxer. Many UFC fighters would do horrible in a real fight because thats not what they train for.
thanks for telling me that. When I'm at work tomorrow night, I'll remember that I'm supposed to lose because I don't train for streetfights...
Just like many masters would do poor in UFC because they do not train in a way where they would be used to the confinement of UFC rules.
wrong. they lose because they don't train for the venue. in the original ufc and in the old vale tudo, there were few rules (ufc) if any at all (vale tudo), and you still saw losses for most tma. the problem is they didn't have the stamina to fight prolonged rounds and had little to no grappling training. They weren't training for the venue.
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