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Originally Posted by Blue Wave Gym
Tom even the Iraqi army knew karate during the first gulf war. Tma is in most militaries now so rbsd and sports combat are more functional ways to train.
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Agreed that combat sport methods are much more functional in terms of training methods, but the techniques of many TMA's work.
I guess I'm trying to open the stage to effective TMA's that are not as popular as their combat sport relatives. MMA is awesome and very valuable, but there's little exposure to the TMA's out there that work - or better yet, fighters/instructors who make them work.
Before BJJ's huge popularity streek, there were guys like Gene Labelle who taught submission wrestling for self defense, with weapons and to folks in LEO/security. There's another master instructor, before Labelle who studied jiu-jitsu and aikido in Japan and taught here in the states to LEO - can't think of his name - Robert Wagner?
Hwarangdo and taekwondo where used by Americans operating in Vietnam and South America, before MMA.
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