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Originally Posted by Simba Nerevu
Experience is key. Training and sparring allows for you to test, apply, and refine your technique. This helps you accumulate experience that is directly conducive to the art of fighting.
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Aane. And as far as the traditional vs mma...mma is also a tradition...it is just, as it is developing in its current form, a young tradition. It is developing its modalities and conventions for fighting in a specific context, i.e. A cage with a referee. It is developing its stock responses to the exigencies of the unique controlled context in which it as a sport is growing (like a heavy reliance on grappling and submissions that would get your dome split by the guy's buddies if you tried it in a nightclub fight...especially with weapons in the mix). Context and propriety is a pillar of the Afrikan worldview. This type of understanding helps us to understand that the question is in what context is a specific martial art/technique useful as opposed to trying to find THE supreme martial art in a white unilineal evolution type of model.
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