Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171201171711/@comment-32783267-20171207034428

68.41.96.241 wrote: ....I'm from Detroit, and I don't know how Burma is, but it does sound similar. Fist fights turn to shoot outs very quick, and knives are very common. I try to avoid trouble nowadays, but I will stand my ground. .....I'm not saying wrestling is inferior, but without a ban on striking the back and back of the head, it's a lot more dangerous to shoot for a take-down... Yeah I'm quite thankful that guns are illegal here for civilians because there might be more bloodbaths.. As Yangon is getting more modernized and street altercations are reduced than before, there are some regions here we might consider a Little Detroit (lol) where shady stuffs use to take place regularly. For us standup is more important in our mind because knocking people out in standup is much more safer as weapons are usually involved. Block/catch a weapon strike and disarm or sock him in the best scenario. Going to the ground never came across our minds until we were exposed to MMA and subsequently BJJ, as I mention above, asphalt is painful and a knife would totally ruin a grapplers day lol.

I remember seeing in the Fight Sports channel Reality Show, Fight Quest (or as I like to call: At Least Those Guys Tried In 5+ Days), the episode where they study Kajukenbo. They spar with the top students at the end of the episode and when one of the hosts went for a double leg on his larger opponent, the dude just defended the takedown and elbowed him in the back in panick. Dick move? Yes. But it also showed the possible trouble of using wrestling in real life for me as much as I love wrestling.

Of course MMA is not a separate style on its own. You need to start from somewhere. And I am not afraid of where I started even if I were to become more well rounded and surpassed my original style's limits because in that way I feel I am paying respect to my original teachers as well as remembering my origins. At least that's how I see it though.