When you wrestle you'd be known for doing a lot of sit-outs, but it would still obviously be wrestling. With wrestling you'd eliminate going flat to your stomach when someone has your back and would instead heavily emphasise sit-outs. It wouldn't exactly look like orthodox boxing when you box, but it still is boxing nonetheless. With boxing you would stop bobbing and weaving, but you'd still make good use of jabs, crosses and uppercuts, and you'd still work on slipping punches and working combinations. You still keep the core though, and the adaptations you've made still work in the original style.
As you're introducing new elements, you find some things just don't work. That's inherrent in MMA - mixing and matching aspects from various styles. If you find a better way of doing something, you use that instead. As you discover something you've been doing isn't useful anymore, you drop it. Once you have a set curriculum, you get stuck with having to use it, and then you've got everyone training things they really shouldn't be bothering with, as better methods have been discovered.īruce Lee touched on this with the idea of constantly emptying and refilling the cup with water. One of the strengths of MMA, and the common feeder styles (wrestling, BJJ, boxing) is the absence of a curriculum. So, does it even make sense for beginners to start with training everything or should they first acquire some skills in one art relevant to MMA, then another, and so on, and finally put it all together? Instead they show a lot of sloppy techniques at almost anything they do. without prior experience in other arts, apparently don't have any solid skills at all. Those who participate only in those classes, i.e. Watching and participating in MMA classes that try to practice everything (standup, grappling, groundfighting etc) combined from the very beginning seems to show me that this is a bad idea.
I have over the years trained Judo, Boxing and Kickboxing. The aim of the program should be to train students for participating in amateur, later maybe professional fights. By that, I mean a way of training students for mixed martial arts that has been applied successfully by a significant number of schools. I'm basically asking for an established MMA "curriculum".
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