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Beginnings of MMA
There's a lot to be said about where mma or mixed martial arts started from, who started it, and how it started. Personally, I believe it’s a collection of people, movements in the martial arts world and the demand for new ways to improve yourself physically. MMA has actually been around for centuries. It was once called ‘Pankration’. Pankration means “a complete contest”. At the time it involved boxing and wrestling. The only way to win was by making your opponent give up or by death. There were neither weight divisions nor time limits. Referees were armed with stout rods or switches to enforce the rules against biting and gouging. The contest itself continued uninterrupted until one of the combatants surrendered, suffered unconsciousness, or was killed. I think one of the main contributors is none other than the master, Bruce Lee. He was the first martial artist to revolutionize the 'old ways’ of the martial arts world. He studied fencing footwork along with boxing, and combined his knowledge in Gung Fu to create his own art now known as Jeet Kune Do. Jeet Kune Do is where it all began for me. The main philosophy is to 'take what is useful for you, and dispose of the rest.' The most modern version of Jeet Kune Do or Pankration would have to be the UFC or the Ultimate Fighting Challenge. In its early days, UFC pitted different arts against each other, without weight categories, and with only a few illegal moves: no biting, eye gouging, or fish hooking. There may be a few more rules I’m forgetting but it was pretty much everything goes. Everyone quickly found out that the old ways of martial arts did not work in this type of environment. Training in mma changed drastically within the next few years. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu dominated most of the early days of the UFC because no one had ever heard of it, and not many have trained in Jiu-Jitsu at the time. Some more history on http://mmamississauga.tumblr.com/
Slowly but surely everyone started catching on and started to train very differently. Wrestlers found out that they could quickly ‘disarm’ a boxer by taking them quickly to the ground and submitting them by locks and choke holds rather than hitting. Suddenly kickboxers and boxers and pugilists alike knew that they had to know at least some form of ground fighting in order to survive in the octagon. All of a sudden, hitters can now diffuse the takedown of a wrestler simply by learning a couple of anti-grappling techniques, staying on their feet and duking it out so to speak. Wrestlers started to box, boxers started to wrestle, grapplers started to learn how to hold others down and do something called ‘ground and pound’ whereby you keep your enemy in a poor position on the ground and proceed to submit them by continuously hitting them until they submit or tap. And now mma is known worldwide and is gaining more audiences and becoming more accepted as time goes by. I’m really hoping it keeps taking off and that there will be more ‘leagues’ to hold mma events. If you wanna learn more about MMA in Mississauga check out http://www.kombatarts.com/Classes/MMA/index.html for a week free of mma lessons.
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