Your post shows a lot of "voodoo" claims. MMA is the best thing that ever happened to martial arts and showed where most MA belong.
BTW, Grace always agreed to any "yes but no rules" challenges from voodoo Kung Fu masters. Where are they now?
BTW, Grace always agreed to any "yes but no rules" challenges from voodoo Kung Fu masters. Where are they now?
The problem with not being able to practice a technique in sparring, or "live" with a resisting opponent is that you don't know how good you are when time comes and you have to apply it.
Well, appeal to non-lethal sport competitions to settle those arguments go out the window, but martial styles intended for real use (including lots where the unarmed subset has been popular in sport) tend to teach both techniques for dealing with armed opponents and techniques for using weapons (including, often, things that stand in for improvised weapons) -- because that's a pretty big factor in serious fights. Purely unarmed intended-for-use-in-anger martial arts are a rarity.
On of the advantages of old style MA like Karate and TKD that "telegraph" a kick: Actually, if you "telegraph" a kick, the advantage is, that you actually can kick over a counter kick as practiced in Wing Tsun or Krav Manga (source: personal experience)
Yeah, someone's friend is going to kick you. But why wouldn't they kick you if you're standing and not facing them?
I wouldn't say that's a disadvantage of BJJ but rather one of facing multiple opponents. Like facing someone who has a gun. You're at disadvantage no matter how much knowledge you have.
They actually trained under Masutatsu Oyama with can be seen in some ways as precursor of MMA.
I have also seen Boxers pulling this off to be fair. But any ground martial arts like is not suited to this.
This is an excuse and well disproved in Gracies' books.