Thoughts on MMA

 

 

About thirty years ago, I saw the first blurry video of Gracie Jiu Jitsu, where they demonstrated their effectiveness against judo and karate and boxing.  It was fascinating.  While clearly the Gracies were showing their best examples, stories of their students trouncing classical martial artists like William Cheung were trickling in in the whisper-stream.  A lot of martial artists refused to believe, thought it was fraudulent, or that their arts had “secret techniques” that were too leth...