The technical evolution of the sport

In little more than a decade, the sport is changed incredibly. The first times that coming from martial artists from several styles defied in mixed competitions of martial limbs, the greater part of the public and the combatants was convinced that the key of the martial ability found in fists and soccer and that one of the traditional styles would have tax finally its superiority. The first editions of Ufc triggered the deepest abashment clearly when divenne that these ideas painfully were mistaken. In fact, the encounter nearly were always gained from the lottatori that carried the adversaries to earth and lì them levers or stranglings ended with. To the beginning, Royce Gracie, master of brazilian ju jitsu, a style created in the twentieth century modifying a base of judo and ju jitsu Japanese, dominated to the competition making itself game of the tradizionalisti, convinced that nobody would be never successful to carry them to earth. Once made public square cleaned up, Royce had saggissima the idea to withdraw itself before that the adversaries came to themselves from the shock and modified their style and their methods of training (Royce returned hardly in 2000 striking pessimo the legnato Takada and coming from Sakuraba, and from then he has fought sporadically every time that an organizer the monster enough green money). Although the fact that practicing of brazilian ju jitsu and submission wrestling continued to having a dominant role with their techniques of strangling and levers against arms and legs (sees the happened one of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira as an example), the new step in the technical evolution of the sport began with the arrival of practicing of free and greco-roman fight. Snobbati from the traditional martial artists who saw them like of the bruti that they could never have competed against "lethal" the Asian disciplines, the lottatori took advantage of their ability in carrying the adversaries to earth and lì they ended with little fineness of the Brazilians, but with equal effectiveness, being based over the adversaries and making to leave scariche of fists (an approach that Mark Coleman, master of this method, renamed "ground and pound"). The successive phase was still more revolutionary. He humiliates to you, the tradizionalisti disappeared from the scene and to their place the martial artists arrived who had understood that the key was in that Bruce Lee had told years before. To take to techniques and methods of training various styles and to stir them in one personal style divenne practical normal school. The cage was transformed in a laboratory where to put to the test the effectiveness of styles and ideas. The greater part of the combatants discovered that the better combination was in training itself in a pair of styles of fight (, free, as an example greco-roman, brazilian ju jitsu, judo, sambo or submission wrestling) and in a pair of styles that emphasized the blows (in particular boxing and muay thai). With this baggage of acquaintance common, to win to earth it was made more difficult from the moment that, while to the beginning many martial artists did not know null of fight to earth and were therefore an easy one preda, now also who specialized itself in techniques of blows knew to fight to earth (eclatante example of this new phase was the victories of Maurice Smith against the ju jitsu of Conan Silvera and "ground and pound" of Mark Coleman). Armed with a fight base that allows is not made it to carry easy to earth, some artists of the ko are resolutions to scale the summit of the sport. Chuck Liddell, Mirko Filipovic and Anderson Silva are some between the examples larger happening than this new approach to the endured sport renamed "sprawl and brawl". After more than a decade than competitions, the mixed martial limbs today are evolute in a complete sport, where enough not to specialize itself in levers or projections or blows, but it must know to do good extremely all.

DANIELe BOLELLI
Is a black belt of fourth level of kung was saint soo, possesses a long experience nel taijiquan, xing yi and bagua del master Tim Cartmell and continues also one prolific competitive career nel submission grappling and nelle mixed martial limbs. University of Los Angeles Ucla has taught for years martial limbs on the credit side and holds seminaries is in Italy that negli USA E' the author del cult book sulla philosophy delle martial limbs, "the tender guerriero art del" (of which an extensive edition On has been published in America with the title it "the warrior' s path"). Beyond writing regularly for Samurai, Journal American collaborates for the review of asian martial arts and has been the article subject publishes to you on the Black review belt. He lives to Los Angeles, where standard history near university Americans which Ucla, Cal Been Long Beach, and Santa.monica college. Anyone was interested to the martial seminaries that Bolelli holds in every Italy year, can contact it through email: bodhi1974@yahoo.com.