MMA has rules that don’t exist in real fights that almost certainly affect the dominance of styles
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Tramort@programming.dev 6 days ago
If you want to know what world, look at MMA.
Brazilian jiu jitsu is basically the only credible form of what most people mean when they say “martial arts” (meaning Asian origin with some kind of progression, often with belts).
China is so salty that karate can’t survive the age of the Internet they are blackballing it’s critics.
Search for “bullshido” if you want some egregious examples
Feyd@programming.dev 6 days ago
Tramort@programming.dev 6 days ago
They didn’t have many at the beginning. Which rule during the rise of BJJ do you think affected it being dominant?
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
The rule against using firearms in the octagon.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Rule against hitting the groin or gouging someone’s eyes. There are lots of combat styles that are more efficient than Jiu-Jitsu, but they’re not for competing, they’re for survival.
I used to train some of the less savoury martial arts, and ever so often we had people from the Jiu-Jitsu class wanting to train with us because they saw us doing “wrong things” and wanted to “teach us”. What they discovered very quickly is that lots of Jiu-Jitsu positions put you in a very vulnerable spot if your opponent knows and can use pressure points, including groin and eyes, and that the “wrong” things we were doing might open a counter attack but prevented those things.
I’m not saying BJJ is bad, but it’s not the br all end all that people claim it to be.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Did you mean Wushu?
It’s closer to Pro Wrestling than a form of self-defense, like they often have storylines and everything.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Karate is Japanese, mr Sensei sir.