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Originally Posted by ninjormon
Youre right about the 30 seconds thing but to the wrong effect. Ninjitsu is designed to end fights guickly by using pressure points and other concepts of martial arts. In MMA the RULES would prevent a ninjitsu practioner from using ninjitsu, by that I mean shots to the throat, eye gouging, crotch shots, hammer fist,(designed to kill), certain holds, etc. Come on man, do you think that a wrestler would slug it out with Kimbo Slice? Not gonna happen. You play to your strengths and your strengths are the other persons weaknesses. Also it is a ninjas duty to study other martial arts as well.
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Please, please please leave Kimbo out of this. I actually quite like the guy, but he is not to the calibre of a mixed martial artist and is at least another year of Bas' tuition before being considered as such.
In a street fight, even in such an enviroment, a skilled MMA fighter will be able to pick apart any traditionalist. Well rounded skills and the ability to switch levels, keep distance and use effective lateral movement is too much for most traditionalist to handle. Have you seen the old video of Royce Gracie fighting a Kung Fu practitioner, some one who had been trained to "kill"? Royce had him crying like a girl within a few seconds. And he wasn't even breathing hard enough to blow out a candle!
As i said, MMA is the final stages of perfecting martial arts. It is just a matter of fine tuning and further progression and mixing up different styles that will see the final results come sooner.
MIXED being the key word, and 3-4 different styles rolled into one fighter is always going to beat one style that the practitioner has never even tested his "killing" strikes to their full effectiveness.