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My martial artist friends often share videos showing things like an MMA fighter beating up a traditional martial artist. But other things being equal, what would be make for better mental training for military leadership? MMA or stylized traditional martial arts? 🤔
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Do you want to learn stylized military leadership, or learn to ruthlessly expose what doesn't work in practice? There's nothing about traditional martial arts that can't be brought to MMA: discipline, humility, honor.
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I think that depends on the goals of the mental training, but overall I would probably say that traditional martial arts that have full sparring also included in them would be best. Judo is my pick.
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MMA is an ever-evolving "build" consisting of all the different packages of what actual works. So little of it is theory. There's a 30 yr corpus of data. Its greatest minds are on another planet in terms of what this can actually instill in a person. They're living in the future.
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I have a lot of opinions about this: it my point is that the hard distinction between mma and tma is training philosophy at best, branding at worst
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Reading about embodied cognition ATM so I’d say MMA as you get a visceral experience of one-to-one conflict. In stylised martial arts the opponent is abstracted. In MMA the opponent is there, both responsive and proactive, which forces and leads to better conflict modelling.
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