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Old 08-07-2007, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by triqqey
I find it very ironic that these guys train so hard to become top notch fighters, what with the "iron body training" and so forth, then step into a fighting match and can only hit someone in the chest/stomache area. I personally wouldn't want to fight someone of that caliber in a street fight, but if I trained as hard as they did and wasn't allowed to actually use some of my techniques in a fight, I would feel like a caged lion. I wouldn't mind allowing hits to the face if I were to train the same way they do because I would train to defend myself there. It wouldn't be too difficult to train for a few months for a 3 minute round + 1 minute overtime with a karate blackbelt if I had the same MMA background as the hosts of the show. I'll bet $100.00 I could last just as long as the host if there weren't any shots to the face. Anyone else out there who's kind of annoyed at how much restriction there is in sanctioned fights for some of these fighting styles? UFC is probably the best in terms of rules IMO because it's as close to a no-holds barred fight as you can safely get. woohoo, go Tito!

you are comparing apples and oranges. Traditional martial arts is different then MMA in the fact that a lot of MMA students do not train for the spiritual aspect and traditional martial arts train to defend and take out advisories in real life. Also, if you train for a specific type of fighting then you allow certain defenses to not be trained, example, old Pride fighting had no elbows but you could stomp a person on the ground, UFC the opposite. So they train differently to prepare for that type of fighting. I'm sure if they allowed punching to the head in the karate matches they would train differently. It's all about what you train for. "Product of your environment."
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