WorldMartialArts asked:

http://www.groundfighter.com/ – A second example from the World Martial Art's Vale Tudo Takedowns, Darrell Gholar demonstrates proper takedown offense and takedown defense techniques as taught by him to the Brazilian Top Team. Known as a premier takedown coach with a vast wrestling background, Gholar's series can seriously help elevate your game in this critical area. …

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miss.curious_121 asked:


martial arts already is mixed isnt it, with a combo of different combat styles, so wats mixed martial arts?

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Kiki F. asked:


I’m planning on starting an MMA class. I’m 5′2, 102lbs (at my max, trust me..I try endlessly to GAIN weight).

Can anyone tell me how they liked MMA and any training tips? (especially for a small girl)
Keep in mind, I do not want to fight competitively.

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Jeff Murdoch asked:


I have been out of the loop regarding the ins and outs of UFC and Pride FC. I have seen a couple of his fights with Anderson Silva and Renzo Gracie and think he is a fantastic fighter. What has been going on with him?

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Twitch asked:


I live in Vincennes, Indiana. Where’s the closest place I can find a dojo that teaches mixed martial arts?

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Rita M. Reali asked:


A lot can change in 2,650 years. Apparently, though, when it comes to sports, everything old is new again. At least when it comes to the sport that boasts the fastest-growing popularity in the U.S. today: Mixed Martial Arts.

But whether you call it Mixed Martial Arts or Ultimate Fighting, this sport is far from modern. Combining Greco-Roman wrestling with a variety of martial arts techniques, the sport closely resembles the free-form ancient Greek competitive sport of pankration.

Dating back to 648 B.C., when it was introduced into the Olympics, the sport of pankration was bound by two rules: no eye gouging and no biting. Sounds like the rules my Kindergarten teacher established. Beyond that, though, anything was fair game in this competition, whose name comes from two Greek words: pan, meaning “all”; and kratos, meaning “powers.”

With individual matches often lasting hours (and sometimes resulting in the death of one or both combatants), the game quickly became the most popular Olympic sport.

Its popularity declined at the time of the rise of the Roman Empire, when other combat sports began taking precedence. In the modern Western World, boxing and wrestling grew in popularity while in the East, traditional martial arts flourished.

Flash forward to the 1900s. Twenty-one-year-old Brazilian Carlos Gracie, who was trained in judo by renowned Japanese champion Mitsuyo Maeda, began teaching his four brothers the art as it was taught to him. In 1925, Carlos and younger brother Helio moved to Rio de Janeiro, where they opened a jiu-jitsu studio and instituted the “Gracie Challenge,” taking on all who wished to compete against them. Begun as a means of drawing attention to their newly opened academy, the Gracie Challenge drew fighters in disciplines ranging from karate and other martial arts to boxing, capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian fighting form) and even wrestling.

Prospective fighters – and hordes of spectators – began to flock to these matches; before long, they were drawing such enormous crowds, the matches had to be held in the largest Brazilian soccer arenas. Eventually, the sport (known as vale-tudo, the Portuguese term for “anything goes”) had grown to become the second most popular sport in Brazil, right behind soccer (a status that is still maintained today).

From 1935 to 1951, 135-pound Helio Gracie fought and defeated in excess of 1,000 competitors in this unarmed combat form; many of his opponents outweighed him by more than 100 pounds.

In 1993, MMA took on a new dimension with the institution of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, based on Brazilian vale-tudo (which California salesman Art Davie learned from Helio’s son Rorito in the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu school two years earlier).

Derided as “human cockfighting,” the no-holds-barred fighting style was often said to be more brutality than sporting competition. Today, MMA and UFC are growing in popularity, with UFC expanding beyond its early pay-per-view audiences and gaining greater exposure on regular U.S. and Canadian cable television.

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KsE Kryptic asked:


I want to learn just the study and how this stuff is done but dont want to leave my home is there any Videos to help me out a little bit?
Also would there be any history classes courses in high school to learn about this stuff

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KatieNikki07 asked:

Driven by the phenomenal success of the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) bouts on pay-per-view television, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is now the fastest-growing sport in the United States. As its name suggests, MMA combines techniques of various other fighting systems, including boxing, jujitsu, wrestling, judo, karate, kickboxing, kung fu, and taekwondo. Decades after a Brazilian fighting style known as vale tudo (anything goes) began to spark local and international interest in the late …

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hinata_hater h asked:


I need to do a Cultural Artifact speech for my Comm class. And I have decided to talk about Mixed Martial Arts. But during my research, I can’t seem to find a definite answer as to what culture MMA originated from. I’ve read it started in Greece, Rome, Italy, etc..

Can anyone help pin point this for me? It’d be very helpful since I am supposed to talk about a culture different my own (US)..

Thanks in advance.
So from reading all of your answers, would it be a good idea for my Speech, to talk about how all of these different styles originated from different cultures, and the end result and its worldwide impact is the development of the UFC?

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Alan C. asked:


Tonight, February 28 2009.

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