Why does everyone and their mothers want to get into MMA?

Question

There's at least a handful of "how do I get started in MMA" questions everyday. People don't realize that professional MMA fighters are for the most part, former real athletes, who have a black belt in some art or have a solid wrestling background from either college or highschool. Just because people watch in on tv and get inspired by guys like Kimbo, everyone is jumping on the band wagon. That's why there are a lot of posers out there. And these same posers misrepresent the sport and act like tough guy jack@sses outside the gym. What are your thoughts? I want to get the point of view of the real martial artists as well as the posers.

Answer 1

its the adrennaline thing or male ego.They dont realize there is alot more to mma then 3 five minute rounds.This is not a toughman contest.Years and years of training make a true champion.The versatility of this sport is sick.You can be the number one grappler,boxer,wrestler,judo,striker in the world and if thats all you know you are done.Lasner came in against Frank Mirr and dominated him but had no sudmission defense and was out in a sec

Answer 2

i agree with u 100 percent i have been training mma since 2000 so before the griffin v bonnar fight, and the trend is after every pay per view or ultimate fighter episode we get new guys in our gym, some nice guys that r eager to learn but some posers that where tapout hats, act tough and give us dirty looks, so we tend to turn it up whenever we get these kind of people and show them the kind of dedication it takes to be a good mma fighter by taking training very seriously and make sure they leave sore and tired, most of them never come back after that!

Answer 3

Not all MMA have huge egos, tre. For example Ken Shamrock was a good sport, even after he lost that last UFC match.  

And there's one other guy who, while he did when a fight (I don't remember when), he mentioned what was important to him was giving the fans a good fight to watch, even if he ended up losing.

I guess alot of em do, though.

And to the OP, yeah the posers can get a bit annoying.  

Answer 4

The same reason that some numbskull who went to see "Enter the Dragon" and the next day walks into a Karate/Kung fu studio.  BECAUSE IT'S "COOL".

I wear a hoodie from my gym because of loyalty, not because I'm trying to impress or intimidate people.  I sure as h**l don't act that way because it reflects on my gym as well.

Hopefully those guys either settle down and learn to be cool, or get humbled and go away.

Sounds like somewhere between the "All-Hat No-Cattle Guy" and the "Reformed Gangster" stereotype...

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Answer 5

there's a handful of "how do i get better at basketball/football/volleyball/baseball" questions everyday in the other sports sections. mma's very popular right now, and people like to have dreams of becoming great at something. just like when i was a kid mike tyson and michael jordan were the baddest things ever and i wanted to be able to be as good as them, fighters like those in the ufc are becoming role models for younger (and older) people who will emulate them.

however, on mma being sport, i disagree with this. to become a mixed martial artist is to become well rounded in different aspects of several divisions of martial arts. only when thrown into a ring with rules has it become a sport.

as for the posers, even when karate started getting popular in the 80s 'posers' were everywhere then, flaunting newly learned techniques and a tough guy attitude. now, though mma has taken most of the popularity of karate, the 'posers' are still there, under the new banner of mma. they've always been here, they've just got more t-shirts now

Answer 6

my mom does not like mma. so she does not want to be in it

Answer 7

because

Answer 8

I consider MMA a sport, not a martial art. Personally I think it sucks.

Answer 9

As a traditional artist, i had a real problem with all of the BJJ/Muay Thai/MMA guys coming on here and slamming all of the traditional styles. I considered them to be arrogant/ignorent punks, and I mean all of them. I have since gotten to know some of them, iin particular Phil J, Judomofo, Tao J, rear naked joke, and a couple of others. I can see that they have as much respect for the traditional arts as anyone, there main problem with many modern day schools is that they do not train effectivly, and I agree.

they helped me see that many of the people slamming other styles on here are in fact posers and wanna be's, and I think through our talks, they came to realize that these people were not doing them any favors as far as their image goes. Since then they have been calling many of the posers out. I don't know if you have noticed the quizes going around? For so many people here that claim to train, both traditional and MMA's, there sure are very few that can actually answer these questions, even though they are generally simple enough so that someone with a minimum of training could answer them, and amazingly it is the same people who answer all the time.

Want to know something else? You have "traditonal" artists from karate and TKD answering Judo, BJJ, and Muay Thai questions and actually doing well, and you have BJJ/Muay Thai/Judo/TKD people answering Okinawin karate questions and doing well. It is showing that even though some of the phylosiphies and training methods are diffenrent, good martial arts is good martial arts, regardless of the label you put on it. I have the utmost respect for people who actually train MMA, because it does take discipline and commitment, and quite honestly the ones I know for a fact train do not slam other styles.

I have started calling out people like Bunjinkan Ninja, who claims to train 8 styles, yet never answers a quiz, even though he has actually been sent links to them, never answers any questions that take a real knowledge of actual technique, and thinks that a yellow belt in TKD has to register as a lethal weapon in florida. He burns me up just as much as the MMA posers. Another user is dmaud56.

There will always be posers, in both traditional and MMA, however if those who actually train in both help police them, and call them out, maybe peopel who choose to train in either can both have good reputations, and MMA's migh get the respect they deserve, if they actually train.

Answer 10

i think that all mixed martial artists are posers. they misrepresent martial artists. mma guys have the hugest egos but in real martial arts it's about shedding your ego. i could go on and on about the invalidity of mixed martial arts,like how they aren't even using martial arts,but there's not enough time.

Answer 11

Japanese Jiu-jitsu.

Best wishes :)***