Why do people say MMA is not good for self defense?

Some people do consider it good for self defense and some don't. Some of the pluses: 1. You will learn a basic vocabulary of how to deal with the major hand to hand combat situations that you are likely to come across. read more

Do not make the same mistake so many people make by conflating self-defense with fighting, and then assuming that mma is bad for both fighting and self-defense. read more

As well MMA does a lot of resistance training, promote high success technique, will get you to a good level of technical proficiency quickly, covers ground fighting and striking and body conditioning and MMA is one of the few MA that touches the tactical aspect on how you build the fight which are really rely important for open hands and non fire-arm confrontation. read more

In MMA and Jiu-jitsu sports training the critical part of practice is to work within a set of rules to pin or knockout the other person who is empty handed and fighting by themselves and whose only defense is that they have been training MMA, boxing and Jiu-jitsu so that they can have a match with / against another competitor. read more