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MMA is just that. It is a mixture of martial arts being taught to help you win a contest. Which combination of arts is dependent upon the gym in which you practice. Some mma gyms allow you to choose between several of the arts that they teach the ones that you want to train in. In most places you will not learn the art itself, but you will learn a limited amount of techniques from those arts. How good of a fight you become is determined by how well you practice, your ability to perform what you have been taught and how good you coach is at teaching and coaching. Everyone that trains in mma will not be good fighters just like everyone that joins a basketball team will not be good basketball players. Most mma places do not teach jujitsu. They teach jiu jitsu. There is a difference.

Everyone chooses their art based upon their own goals, reasons and or recommendations. We don’t know you goals. If you are looking for self defense I would recommend that you find a good traditional martial art. If your goal is to one day fight in the UFC then find a good mma gym.

Our dojo is a traditional school. There is the guy that now trains with us that is a mma fighter. He is from out of town. He had been search for a good mma place to train but was having much luck. Someone told him about us. He has a background in traditional arts too(wing chung). He is a muay thai and jui jitsu guy as well. My sensei more than twice his age agreed to roll with him a little. My sensei would counter and instruct him throughout them rolling. He enjoyed his workout. He asked if he could continue to come and train and roll with us. It was explained that we are not mma, we are traditional but he was welcome to train and learn. He has been coming every since. We also introduced him to others that are good in mma. This guy was going to do a self defense seminar Friday that just passed. He asked me to help him practice and to give him some ideas on what to cover for his seminar. This guy is a fighter. I had to remind him often that he was teaching beginners. Do not teach them to use brute force or to fight. Many will not have the capacity to fight right now. Teach them to defend themselves well enough to get away. Teach them to escape. Keep it simple. Many of the techniques he wanted to do involved a hard strike or 2. I again had to remind him that some of the men and women in the seminar aren’t string enough or skilled enough to strike someone hard enough to stop them. Teach then how to escape, counter, run away, avoid, and to be aware of the surroundings. Teach them to make a lot of noise to get the attention of others so that someone would call the police to get them some help.

This guy is a good fighter. He has a lot of knowledge. He was a drill sergeant in the marines. He is good at combat or mma, but not as good at teaching self defense applications to the general public. I also had to tell him to assume that everyone that comes is a beginner or novice even if they have had some training before. You don’t know what they have been taught or what they have retained. Teach them the basics and build from there. In tradition martial arts we don’t teach you to fight. Anyone can fight and trade strikes. But we teach you to end the threat quickly while limiting you attackers ability to harm you. We do not want to trade strike or kicks. We hit without being hit. I don’t care how good you become you can only block so many punches before you get hit. But if you position yourself correctly you can’t be punched, but you are in a great position to strike or take out your attacker.

muay thai teach a bit of everything its a really westernised sport but it will take things from different arts to do . karate, judo, pankration it will have a metling pot of moves involved

In mma you don’t learn all the styles separately, instead you learn the most efficient moves from different fighting styles, such as muay thai, wrestling, kickboxing, jujitsu and so on, and have it be combined in to one kick a** martial art.

MMA teaches wrestling, submission grappling, muay thai and brazillian jujistu. You can use karate techniques in MMA but they tend not to teach any of karates method. Jujitsu is a great fighting style and learning all these different martial arts will definityl teach you how to fight good.