07-13-2017, 05:16 PM
Quote:EDIT: And Ben's making a lot of assumptions. My Thai school has so many students that he had to open extra classes to accommodate the people. And not all martial arts that aren't Thai or Jiu-Jutsu "useless."
From my experience, the more full on classes have lacked girls in them.. though mma is bigger now and maybe it's my area.
I'm not saying anything other than muay thai and bjj are useless. In fact for reality (e.g not sport) those arts aren't ideal but absolutely everyone says that it's like it's just the 'thing to say' because they have heard it so many times. But having real experience (e.g I don't mean training, sparring, competing) they are missing alot. Yes they are 'alive' and train against resistance but will teach alot of bad habits for the street and don't cover the most important things of self defense, awareness, prefight, psychology of an attacker, learning signs of a potential attack etc. MMA covers zero of that.
They are better than most things, especially traditional arts like karate or taekwondo, though you could call muay thai traditional since it goes back so many years I guess.
