Today I want to talk anout where the martial arts have gone and are going to. Traditional martial arts are still around and are perfectly fine, but martial arts have begun to become "modernized." In the 70's martial arts began to become more in the spotlight, it became popular and well known with personalities like Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and others. After a second generation MMA was developed and martial arts tournaments have become commonplace. Tournaments have branched out, creating new competition divisions and ways to judge your abilities. Martial Arts has many practitioners for many reasons. Some popular reasons are Self-defense, MMA or sport fighting, and tournament performances, like XMA (extreme martial arts).
MMA has become extremley popular in recent years, showing some of the top athletes compete. MMA, or mixed martial arts is a fighting based sport. Two fighters with little to no padding step into the ring and a tapout or knock out finishes the match usually. MMA fighters are adept at most fighting techniques and are physically tough, its about strength and stamina as well as accuracy and focus. Sport karate and other forms of competition based on fighting or sparring attract the same type of people.
Tournament performance has ecome increasingly mor e popular with the creation of the extreme forms division. Showing off with spinning and jumping kicks and flips extreme martial arts is about form and showmanship as well as focus and discipline.
Self-defense is well, self- explanatory. It is the real life self-defense that you learn to defend yourself. This has changed from original martial arts because many places have started to get rid of the art side and focus solely on the defense.
These have become really popular aspects of modern martial arts, but, a happy mixture of all three is probably best to become an all around good martial artist.
Statement of Purpose
This project is an investigation of 5 Martial Arts styles. Self-defense is a major theme in martial arts today and to better understand how different martial arts schools and styles treat self-defense I am going to learn all I can (given time restraints) about each of the five styles. These schools will be chosen from a list of local martial arts studios, and the style will be the one that is taught at that studio. Many studios teach multiple styles, so in this case on of the styles taught there will be analyzed. At the end of the project all the schools I visited will be rated and scored to show in which areas they excel or by contrast, fall short.
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