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Karate is back

No matter what happens in this fight Lyoto Machida has proven that karate is a very effective martial art in MMA. BJJ, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Sambo, Judo, Boxing, Greco Roman, and Karate are all great martial arts alone, but to be successful in MMA today, you have to M your MA. The sport is called “Mixed” Martial Arts, not OMA (One Martial Art). With the well varied skills that today’s MMA athletes have, the only have any success in this sport is to be well varied, or “Mixed”. In the old days BJJ guys, kickboxers, wrestlers all thought their art was far superior, and they could succeed without cross training. And in the old days it was thought that Karate was an ineffective striking art. Well both myths have been proven wrong…

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