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| MMA Class for Adult and Teens
Mon, Wed and Thur and 7:30 pm and Sat at 1:00 PM.
183 and Story rd next to the 24 Hour Fitness Center.
Please call to register 972-258-8333 for 1 FREE
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Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
Our MMA class is a mix of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai
and Karate. It is geared for Men and Women. Great for fun or for the
serious fighter. Ages teen and adult.
Class times
Mon, Wed, Thursday at 7:30 PM and Saturday at 1:00 PM
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
is a combative sport that, as the name implies,
combines many different martial arts.
Competitors in MMA use a combination of Martial
Arts to become proficient in both striking and
grappling. The most well known organizations
that feature MMA are Ultimate Fighting
Championship (UFC) and PRIDE Fighting
Championships (PRIDE).
-MMA competition is also often referred to as:
No Holds Barred (NHB)
Vale Tudo (anything goes)
Cage Fighting
Ultimate Fighting
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Striking
Striking typically refers to the use of hands, feet,
knees, and elbows to inflict damage upon an opponent
while standing. The two most popular striking arts in
Mixed Martial Arts are Boxing and Muay Thai. Unlike
boxing, which only involves the hands, Muay Thai
effectively integrates the hands, feet, knees, and
elbows in its techniques.
Grappling
Grappling is often to referred to as ground fighting.
Grappling training usually consist of Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu and wrestling. In grappling arts, such as
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the goal is to submit your opponent
using various joint locks or chokes and most of these
submissions are directly applicable to MMA. Wrestling on
the other hand has no such submissions and since there
is no victory for pinning your opponent in MMA wrestling
is usually used to obtain a dominant position to strike
the opponent while they are on the ground, a tactic
known as ground-and-pound an opponent.
Rules
The specifics of rules vary from organization to
organization but there are few rules that are common
amongst most MMA organizations: Headbutts, eye gouging,
and biting are all prohibited.
No striking the groin
No attacks against the trachea
No attacks against the back of the head and spinal area
No small joint manipulation
No hair pulling or fish-hooking
There are various weight classes to ensure a fair fight.
Matches are broken up into a number of time limited
rounds. A competitor can win the match by knock out (KO)
, submission( verbal or by tapping three times), or by
judges decision. There are also various events that can
cause a victory by TKO such as referee or doctor
stoppage.
History
The sport of MMA can be traced back to the original
Olympic games held in ancient Greece. In Greek
pankration the competitors engaged in hand-to-hand
combat that combined both striking and grappling skills.
Like in modern MMA, in Greek pankration the goal was to
was submit or incapacitate the opponent.
The most recent beginning of modern MMA however, can be
traced back to the Vale Tudo competitions held in Brazil
starting in the 1920's. It was in these competitions
that the Gracie family and their version of Jiu-Jitsu (
Gracie or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) began to garner fame.
These bouts often had a style vs. style competent to
them, where the practitioners of various martial arts
would compete to prove which martial art was superior to
the others.
In 1993, Vale Tudo type competition was brought to the
U.S. in part by the Gracie family. The competition was
run under the name of the Ultimate Fighting Championship
and had the goal of proving which martial art was
superior to all others. It was in this competition that
a rather frail looking Royce Gracie, a Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, was able to dominate all other
competitors and capture the championship. Royce Grace
was able to win despite being greatly out sized by many
of his opponents as well as by using a fighting style
that was completely different from most American's knew
of. It was a very sobering experience for many when they
witnessed the much more powerful and larger strikers
becoming seemingly helpless once Royce Gracie took them
to the ground. His use of grappling to dominate much
larger opponents would change the landscape of the UFC
forever. It also helped many practitioners of the more
striking centric martial arts to realize they must
effectively learn how to grapple as well as strike to
truly be competent fighters and thus ushered in the
modern age of MMA.
Modern MMA
Today MMA is a sport exploding with popularity. Numerous
MMA organizations now exist and it is a billion dollar a
year industry. This increase in popularity can be
attributed to a few things:
Greatly increased T.V. exposure
Spike's The Ultimate Fighter
Rule changes, making it more acceptable
A large following on the internet which help to spread
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