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Subject: Re: This is the norm now???? everyone is teaching MMA??

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Shidoshi Rob Austin (Lightning bolts)

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Date Posted: 00:51:38 04/16/08 Wed
In reply to: Just Wondering 's message, "This is the norm now???? everyone is teaching MMA??" on 22:23:35 02/19/08 Tue

Even though I'm not quite a level 7 grappler, but I can shoot lighting bolts out of my ass I'll add my two cents.

First I'll throw out that I am a TKD instructor and I've been teaching for a few years off and on. I just put Shidoshi in my name because I thought I'd look more official if someone read this.

MMA is becoming, if not already, a popular thing for people to want to learn. Most martial arts schools you'll run across will try to jump on the wagon and ride it to town, ATT sells MMA certification, ATA just did an MMA seminar and currently runs ground fighting seminars. They're fine and dandy as long as you don't use the (limited) training to open up a Cary Top Team center or something like that.

I think another argument most places will resort to is that if you do more than one martial art and you teach them, then it's MMA. I guess that goes with the implied meaning and the understood meaning. If someone tells me that they teach MMA, then I get a vision of people working kickboxing of some sort and grappling. When it turns out it's stick fighting, aikido and kung fu, I start to wonder a bit. If teaching more than one art counts as MMA, then every freaking academy out there would be an MMA academy.

In closing I'll just say that you can't teach people to get ready for a fight without fight experience. And most schools teaching an "MMA" course are full of it.

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[> Subject: Re: This is the norm now???? everyone is teaching MMA??
Author: Neal Weaver [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 09:30:13 04/16/08 Wed Nice to have BJJ royalty agree with me, but remember Tatted one, I am married, so your flattery falls on deaf ears. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]