Originally posted by King Castle
oops... sorry. 😮 i forgot you were a MMA's. i just get riled up due to my decade long training in MA and my oath for none violence and profit and upholding what i was trained in.. i get mad to see ppl destroy something that i hold dear for a few hundred, grand and hurting some one without necessity.if it makes you feel any better i hated McMap b/c it taught mismatch of MA to unworthy individuals regardless if being marines.
Eh, I get it.
I was in traditional Kung Fu for a decade and a half. Very old style, very old sensibilities.
I don't care much for the money, but I'm a competitor and I hated practicing something endlessly without any reference for how practical my skill was. I do it because it's my own personal test physically, and spiritually.
I don't consider MMA necessarily a destruction of MA, but an evolution of it.
I think there's a time for martial arts, but only as a self defensive measure... when it comes to competition, that's another story, fighters have been fighting against one another from different schools since the inception of "traditional Martial Arts".
Though I do agree with the sentiment that most fighters use butchered techniques because they never practice to perfect them stylistically speaking.
And I suppose it's humorously hypocritical that I discriminate against guys who wear Tapout shirts to the bowling alley and such.
Lol I remember what my friend Zach told me about his McMap training "killkill!" lol.