PLEASE DO NOT MOVE THREAD....... IN ALL FAIRNESS WESTERN BOXING IS CONSIDERED A MARTIAL ART AS WELL AND AT LEAST SOME WILL LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE ORGINS OF THE GRAPPLING ARTS



Let me tell you the premise of Grappling and Submissions.... most Street fights and scuffles end on the ground, a submission is a form of pain compliance which if continuosly applied, results in muscle, tendon and ligament destructions and bone breaks which severly incapacitates an attacker thats why they Tap out for sport purposes.... Thats why it is EXTREMELY effective for street fighting and self defense....

Grappling has been around for centuries and various cultures have their own styles in one form or another or have adopted other cultures and modified to be indigenous to their region and often utilized during hand to hand combat in wartime.. Some are more visicuous than others, the Filipino arts are some of the most brutal in the history of mankind......

Thats one of the biggest misconceptions about Mainstream MMA is that its only been around for 15 years or so which is true, but Martial Arts have been around for 100's of years and was meant for a form of survival, before there were guns and missles etc.. wars were fought hand to hand, even with bladed weapons Grappling is highly effective..... Grappling is considered a Martial Art and Boxing is too albeit they are both incomplete systems and are not profeciant in all ranges of combat, when utilized by its self