Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171201171711/@comment-108.63.11.115-20171207191203

MMA is martial arts. It's like the English language for example. English is actually of Germanic origin and is truly a combination of other languages and borrows from each one to form a new code without one true source (as do most widespread languages). Now "Latin" and "Greek" are still two of the major influencers of English just as TKD or Karate can still be major influencers of a new martial art. If I say the English word "Cosmos" or "Veranda" for example anyone with even a little knowledge of language origin would easily identify one word as sounding "Greek" and one word sounding "Latin" but I am still speaking a different language. Just like I can use a Thai clinch and a Taekwondo roundhouse to form a new martial art.

It is still raw and not standardized but we are naming new martial arts systems like BJJ + Muay Thai and Judo + Boxing all under the same umbrella "MMA" but you are already starting to see some standardization of skillsets as the catalogue of answers to martail arts problems expands. Utlimately if you follow a "system" of fighting you are a martial artist, even if the system borrows components from other systems to configure a new one.

CanadianOracle