The VITAL Tour -- Extreme Sports Fighting
(MMA)
A lot of the things we said
about Brazilian Ju-Jitsu also apply to this section as
well, so if you haven’t already gone through it, do so now.
That being said, we will try and keep it relatively shorter
here.
Here is the ultimate clash of alpha-male macho aggression.
Let’s gather up the biggest, toughest, most experienced
martial artists and street fighters on the planet and throw
them all into a cage to see who’s best. Let’s make it into
a new entertainment fighting industry and make a mint while
we are at it. Sound good? Sure it does. Great for ordinary
people to learn personal protection? Not in a million
years!
Know nobody in their right mind should want to go
one-on-one in a ring against any one of these monsters. In
that context, they would make you into Human shredded
wheat. No doubt about that. However, and we have probably
said this a billion times now, but it’s worth repeating…
Extreme sports cage fighting, as brutal and starkly real as
it seems, is NOT criminal violence! It is a contrived /
engineered violent scenario where the combatants agree to
minimal rules (makes a huge difference) and also agree to
fight in the first place.
How likely / suitable would it be for your Grand Mother to
learn personal protection through studying Mixed Martial
Arts? Yet a weak appearing Grand Mother leaving a shopping
mall is exactly what these predators look for when
selecting victims. They are certainly not going to mug a
guy who looks like he can fold a Buick in half. So who
really needs to know self-defense more in that regard? We
say the Grand Mother.
Of course, another major point here is that this stuff
(again) only covers the physical fighting part of a
holistic self-defense portfolio. On top of that, the
instructors and schools that sell you this training aren’t
very forthcoming disclosing the fact that their training is
only a small part of dealing with and preparing for
violence in your life.
SIDE NOTE: Almost all of the 10 flaws with martial arts
used for self-defense purposes also apply to Extreme Sports
Fighting (MMA):
#1. Narrow vision of violence with limited response options
#2. A foundation built on fighting with techniques
#3. Lack of psychological and physiological considerations
#4. Omission of preventative and pre-contact
counter-measures
#5. Exclusion of medical, legal, and emotional aftermath
issues
#6. Male-centric with size, speed, strength, and macho
aggression prevalent
#7. Ideal training / fighting conditions make a convincing
illusion
#8. Ineffective and antithetical educational methodology
#10. Absence of criminological and violence mindset
information