In recent years, the all-around mixed fighting competition of kicking, hitting and wrestling has undoubtedly become the mainstream of the world's challenge competitions, and the professional discussion of cross-training and MMA (English abbreviation of mixed martial arts) has undoubtedly firmly occupied the right to speak in international martial arts, which has been traced back.
As early as the last century 1966, when people in the traditional martial arts circles were still taking gloves and inch-stop competitions as the main body of training and competition, and were still talking about the almost mysterious stunt of "killing with one blow", Bruce Lee in the period of Fan Zhen National Art Museum in Los Angeles had started cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary training through a large number of improved training tools and methods, which the author called "Jeet Kune Do (JKDMMA).
The concept of unrestricted martial arts advocated by Bruce Lee more than 40 years ago, namely Jeet Kune Do, indirectly inspired the organizer of the world's first Ultimate Fighting Competition (UFC) in 1993 through the opening of enter the dragon and the epoch-making significance of modern unrestricted fighting launched by Sammo Hung: Who is stronger? In other words, kicking, elbow and knee, wrestling, joint skills, strangulation and other techniques of any genre are allowed in the competition. Even after the player falls to the ground, he can continue to attack until one party completely obeys, so as to be as close as possible to the infinite actual combat in reality. As a result, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Havice Gracie unexpectedly won many championships, which broke the concept that traditional martial arts have the strongest skills for the first time, and cross-genre unrestricted fighting competitions began to be popular all over the world.
At first, in this kind of competition, the factions of the players are completely different, while jujitsu and wrestlers have unlimited scenery and dominate the world. However, with the deepening of the practice of the ultimate fighting competition, the new "conservative" martial arts concept, which once made people think that Jiu Jitsu was the best in the world, was ruthlessly broken again-because those multi-functional mixed fighters with vague sects and proficient in various standing positions and ground skills began to occupy a dominant position with great advantages.
The development of history just confirms Bruce Lee's insight of transcending the times: only by abolishing the artificial boundaries of sects and races can Wushu truly show infinite freshness, liveliness and vitality, and "only comprehensive Wushu can cope with any situation"-no one is better than anyone, whether it is kickboxing or jujitsu, and only by comprehensive combination and three-dimensional application can it truly stand on the stage of contemporary comprehensive fighting. At present, in Japan, the United States and Japan, The Gracie Family introduced MMA competition to the United States, namely ultimate fighting championship (UFC), on 1993. UFC allows any genre of martial arts (such as karate, jujitsu, sumo, free fighting, etc. ) and Olympic events (such as boxing, wrestling, taekwondo) to participate in the competition, and decide which kungfu is the best under unified rules. UFC let the American audience see the contest of different fighting techniques in the same venue for the first time.
Up to now, UFC has become the most influential MMA competition in the world and is recognized as one of the most entertaining and competitive sports events in the world. The success of UFC has been strongly supported by the international martial arts community. The success of UFC has promoted the development of MMA in the world, and MMA has become a global popular sport. At this point, MMA competition has become an official legal competition in all 50 States in the United States. In addition to the UFC competition once a month; There are nearly 100 different organizations in the United States that hold their own MMA competitions.
MMA campaign has been launched in Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark and other European countries. In Asia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Taiwan Province Province, Thailand, the Philippines and other regions have also started to hold their own MMA competitions. In particular, Japan has become another MMA developed country after the United States. PRIDE is the largest MMA organization in Japan, and ranks with UFC as the world leader in MMA competition. PRIDE usually holds a competition in Japan once a month, and the audience alone reaches tens of thousands or more. Even the Japanese K- 1 organization, which has always been famous for boxing competitions, began to transform half of the competitions into MMA competitions.
MMA competition has gradually become the final development direction of the world fighting competition. Modern professional MMA athletes are all highly skilled players, and they have undergone many years of professional training. And MMA athletes are also top players in the world. Former Olympic Games and World Championships champions in wrestling, karate, boxing and jujitsu formed an excellent MMA team. When we stand at the new starting point of 2 1 century, we will have a general view of world Wushu; Comprehensive Wushu competition has become the mainstream concept of all kinds of advanced Wushu competitions in the world today. 1. MMA was first introduced to the United States by The Gracie Family, and later UFC was held. Bruce Lee made the whole world realize that Wushu should be learned from others, not just from one school. 3. Although The Gracie Family ruled MMA before Ken Clover, people didn't really notice MMA until Ken Clover appeared. Clover is proficient in many martial arts, such as capture, Japanese wrestling and fighting. At the same time, he also learned Jiu Jitsu ground station and Muay Thai.
Therefore, Bruce Lee made a great contribution to the spread of MMA, but it was not until the appearance of clover that people really broke the doubts about MMA and realized that mixed fighting was the king.