Posts Tagged ‘Traditional Korean Martial Arts’

It has been many years since the early days of Modern MMA was globally introduced by Japanese Organizations like Pancrase, Shooto and of course The UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championships) and has had a profound impact on traditional martial arts and how martial arts in general has been taught in schools; goal of UFC Concept Creator Rorion Gracie. In the 80’s and very early 90’s traditional arts deriving from Karate and Chinese Kung-Fu were very popular thanks to influences in cinema and tv. Kung Fu theater on channel 5 in New York, films from the Shaw Brothers and ,of course, Bruce Lee had young people flocking to the schools in hopes of aquiring skills of their on screen heroes. With the inclusion of Tae Kwon Do as an official Olympic sport and it visually impressive kicking techniques, the traditional Korean Martial Arts were enjoying great success in terms of enrollment as well.

   With the introduction of the 1st UFC, within months, students began frantically searching for authentic Brazillian Jiu Jitsu. As the UFC progressed, arts such as Western Boxing, Freestyle and Greco Roman Wrestling, and Muay Thai seemed to be the arts that held up to the “litmus test” in the MMA fighting.

Instructors of traditional martial arts schools now had to evolve and include a curriculum as the demand for arts that have proven effective in MMA increased. Now we are in a generation that is born in the MMA era. The traditional martial arts have much to offer in terms of techniques, training methods that could easily be applied to MMA type training. To run a successful school in MMA while keeping the traditional arts valid to a new generation it is crucial that a school has an authentic and diverse curiculum. Quality instruction and perhaps even more importantly, the knowledge to run a school from a business standpoint is a must in order to evolve as modern martial arts has evolved as well as keeping the values, philosophy, and technique of traditional martial arts alive.

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