Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171201171711/@comment-99.248.3.222-20171208231012

@NYA

The MT clinch + TKD was just a theoretical example to illustrate the point.

I agree with the "spirit" of MMA and often that respect is initaited with a traditional style as you note. Once that ethic is instilled then it can be applied to any style. You have spoken much to the origins of the arts and you surely know more history but I do know that many of the traditional arts were not developed for the "spirit" of martial arts but for other reasons like survival and defense.

This is where guys like GSP are an example IMO, he was instilled with great martial arts values from his traditional Kyo background. He then applied that same "spirit" to all of MMA and still embodies this "spirit" today, he showed us you can be a Martial Artist in MMA. There are others who embody this but as I spoke to earlier, its still raw and in its infancy, it will forge into one more defined combps as we progress.

Dont get me wrong I know I come across as a new age MMA guy lol, the last thing I want is for us to lose the "spirits" that gave birth to it all. We have to do what guys like GSP did, transfer and carry that essence into all that you do including other arts and I think it is inevitable (and not talking about UFC). So in the end, you can walk into an MMA gym that has the "spirit" applied and train for the same reasons with the same values as the trad artists.

CanadianOracle