Why Would You Want To Learn Mixed Martial Arts? The sport of mixed martial arts seems to be taking North and South America, Europe and Japan by storm. It is not a new sport by any means; the contemporary bout of popularity for mixed martial arts goes back around 20 years. So, it has been bubbling under for quite a while, but now each city and town appears to be offering training in MMA to one degree or another. There are gyms specializing in mixed martial arts and other gyms are providing it as one of their repertoire of martial arts and fitness regimes. However, learning MMA is not like learning other fighting skills, because MMA incorporates, or can incorporate, all the other skills. Mixed martial arts is not a single fighting skill on its own like say, karate or wrestling is. At the end of the day, this means that a disciple of MMA has to master say, boxing, wrestling, karate, jiu jitsu and Thai boxing which obviously takes a immense amount of dedication on behalf of the acolyte.. So why would you want to learn mixed martial arts? The reasons why people do some things are highly personal, but two of the most popular factors given for wanting to learn MMA are to get fit and to be able to defend oneself. MMA requires a high level of fitness and stamina, but it also increases one's selfconfidence and powers of concentration. This latter benefit appears to help children (and adults) with ADD and ADHD, but all children benefit from elevated confidence, fitness and the capacity to protect themselves from bullies. All standard, formal fighting skills have blind-spots when it comes to a real street fight. In a street fight, usually the bigger guy wins. Training may reverse this, giving the smaller person with superior skills the edge. However, say you learn boxing to protect yourself and you are attacked from behind one night; you are knocked to the ground and a big man gets on top of you. Your boxing skills are not much use now, are they? Or say that you studied wrestling, but the other guy is really fast and he keeps darting in and hitting you, wearing you down and you simply cannot get a grip of him. Or say he has a knife? Aikido is fantastic for disarming opponents and karate and Thai boxing give you a better reach by teaching you to box with your feet. In this manner, mixed martial arts provides a more rounded means of self-defence and attack. Part of the skill in learning mixed martial arts is choosing which martial arts to learn. Tae kwon do is a very athletic style involving high kicks and jumps. A heavy person would not take to tae kwon do easily, but may prefer Brazilian jiu jitsu. Fortunately, your instructor will know which combinations of sports will be best suited to your personality and your body type.
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