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Originally Posted by joelr  When are you ever going to attempt a knife fight or to disarm a gunman?? |
I certainly hope the answer is "never."
My main criticism against saying "MMA is the best for fighting," is that MMA is not one defined thing. Being a mix, different schools teach different elements. Since MMA is so popular now, everybody claims to teach it, but a lot of instructors are simply not qualified to do so (and simply teach basics that they learned from watching videos, etc.).
We also need to remember that most MMA schools focus on sport fighting, which is different from self defense in that terrain, numbers of opponents, and types of attacks are limited.