Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171124173742/@comment-108.63.11.115-20171128201907

@nya

I have to look up that kumite you speak of lol....

I think what you said goes for all skills, it does not matter where you started its integrating skills into your game from an MMA perspective. Just like GSP was a karate guy who learned wrestling from an MMA perspective so you like you said with Maia his integration of it was much more fine-tuned for MMA becoming much more effective than fighters with much higher pure wrestling credentials including NCAA champs and Olympians. He didnt have to "unlearn" all of the wrestling techniques that are drilled into your programming and need to be adapted or discarded completely when fighting in MMA.

The new MMA is the skeleton key of fighting, borrow all the techniques you can from all disciplines just make sure they "fit" in the cage. You can no longer just think about how a karate guy is going to repsond to your technique, you have to think about ALL the possible answers to the problems you present and adapt accordingly - its so f'ing beautiful ......

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