This very much sums up almost all martial arts.
Taekwondo in America gets a bad rap because of the pathetic Americanization of it. Legitimate Korean taekwondo is meant to end fights immediately, with your opponent likely requiring serious medical intervention.
The first technique I learned was: front kick to the groin, side kick to the pelvis, front kick to the groin. Now do it faster and faster, and throw the kicks harder and harder.
MMA should rather be called MCS, as in mixed combat sports, for the reason you mentioned, in "martial arts" there's martial, as in war. Most martial arts these days have become sports. Krav maga isn't intended to be a sport for instance, and most krav techniques can't be used in MMA for obvious reasons, kind of like karate there's a whole set of techniques you just can't use because it's designed to main, cripple and kill, it's for war
That's funny. My taekwondo instructor said he doesn't like it being called mixed martial arts.
"Ultimate fighting, that's a good name for it."
It's boxe wrestling for the most part, "chute boxe" is a pretty accurate description in 2 words
I suspect there was a lot of dope involved in the pride after a while
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But well, it didn't drastically improve his overall performance, strikes harder but doesn't necessarily land more blows, it's still overeem doing overeem, for those who already cracked overeem, it's not an entire new deal... That's what I've noticed. Sure it helped, but kind of marginally in hindsight
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