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Have you heard of the Dog Brothers yet? If you haven’t you soon will. The Dog Brothers are a group of underground fighters who are currently challenging the supremacy of the established UFC tournaments by staging their own even more brutal and “real” tournament fights.
I had never heard of the Dog Brothers [...]
Thanks to the rise in popularity of BJJ and MMA grappling moves have become very popular amongst martial artists of all styles. Even traditional karateka are dappling in this art in an effort to become “well-rounded fighters”, a phrase that I hear more and more often these days. It seems many martial artists [...]
In today’s commercialized society money seems to underscore everything. Basically, if it exists then it can be monetized. And if it can be monetized then you can guarantee there will people queuing up to do just that and not all of those people will be doing so with the best of intentions.
Money corrupts; it creates [...]
Tags: Commercializm
I have been practicing traditional martial arts training in the same dojo now for over twenty-five years. The training hall itself has existed for many more years before that. When I first began training there it was quite run down; it was just a fair sized hall with wooden floor and a couple of changing [...]
One of the first posts I published on this site was entitled MMA: Martial Art or Commercial Enterprise? If you haven’t already done so then I suggest you read it before reading this follow-up post. The article basically discussed the rise of MMA and cage fighting, the blatant commercialism that surrounded it and whether or [...]
Tags: Commercializm·MMA·Traditional
In recent years we have seen the irrefutable rise of MMA – mixed martial arts- both as
a sport and as a fully-fledged cultural phenomenon. Since its inception in the early nineties it has dominated our television screens, our magazines and our local club networks across the world. Some see it as the holy grail of [...]
