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Originally Posted by Toaster126
From what I understand of Bruce Lee's stance on things, he favored what worked in practice, rather than tradition. I think he would have been a huge MMA fan. 
There are lots of differences between a real fight and fighting for sport. The two biggest things I can think of is referee stoppages don't happen in real fights, and real fights often have more than 2 people involved, making lots of techniques extremely useful in one context and useless in the other. |
And the element the of biting, which along with eye gouges they are not allowed to do. I think Brazilian Juijitsu is awesome. It definately helps develop the attribute of ground fighting. The Graci approach is to immediately take the fight to the ground. In a real fight the person that does that better get a breaking move fast because being in the closet range someone with a high level of killer instinct is going to be biting. So while I think it is definately a plus to know in a real fight scenerio intentionally going to the ground is a bad idea.
I second the thought that Bruce would have loved this sport.
I think the reason why it may look like its getting drab to some is the fighters and the way they fight has become so efficient. Remember when it first started? No weight classes and it was style against style. I dont think you will find anyone entering under something like wing chun anymore. A fighter that wants to do well is going to have to train like most of them are doing now. Boxing, Muay Thai, and Brazilian Juijitsu or something similiar like shooting fighting.