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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Feb 2019
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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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      2. Jeff Hardy‏ @jeffreyjhardy 2 Feb 2019
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        Well asked, self answered.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Feb 2019
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        Is it answered? I’m genuinely asking. I don’t know.

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      1.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 2 Feb 2019
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        Traditional martial arts are better mental training for military leadership. Civilians think of what they see in movies, which focus on heroes. The real military is all about teamwork, particularly hierarchical teams. MMA is lone wolf training, but it won't help lead a team.

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      1. Dan listens to the world changing‏ @danlistensto 2 Feb 2019
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        Neither? I get the impression traditional military leadership is an intersection of politics and charisma mostly.

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      2. the [devil-]mandalorian‏ @swimming_blerd 2 Feb 2019
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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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      3. the [devil-]mandalorian‏ @swimming_blerd 2 Feb 2019
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        people in MMA or TMA are effective based upon how they train and how open their mindset is--but only to a point; no one is 100% effective in all contexts and situations but the techniques? basically the same, with flourishes/simplifications here and there

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      1. Matthew Samuel Sweet‏ @Matthew_Sweet 2 Feb 2019
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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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      2. «Sam•Forsythe»‏ @poly_metis 2 Feb 2019
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        If you accept the Clausewitzian dictum that war reduces to the form of the duel, ie hand to hand combat, then only styles with randori (live sparring) will teach you about the reciprocity & dynamics of fighting. TMA almost never has randori. BJJ is the weapon of choice these days

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        This is assuming you mean leadership for operations (up to theater level). If you mean DoD politicking then probably a course in criminal accounting and a back-stabbing seminar would suffice.

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      1. Connor McDonald‏ @ckmcdona 2 Feb 2019
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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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