With the Growing Popularity of MMA, Younger, More Practical Martial Arts Attract More Attention
With the rise in popularity of mixed martial arts as a spectator sport, more people than ever are interested in learning about the underlying disciplines. It used to be that Asian martial arts like judo, karate, and tae kwan-do were considered the ones most worthy of respect, but this has changed greatly in recent years. As mixed martial arts competitions have highlighted how other approaches are often more successful in the ring, the interests of students have been shifting accordingly.
This phenomenon is probably most obvious in relation to Brazilian ju-jitsu. Even twenty years ago a discipline that was rarely heard of outside of the country of its birth, Brazilian ju-jitsu made a big impression over the course of the early history of mixed martial arts competition. In the early days before weight classes were instituted, in fact, it was often Brazilian ju-jitsu experts of relatively diminutive stature who prevailed over the giants.
That is not to say that Brazilian ju-jitsu is the only discipline whose focus on results has made it a recent favorite, though. Another of the martial arts of this kind is the Israeli discipline of Krav Maga, a synthetic creation of relatively recent birth. Krav Maga draws upon dozens of the world's great martial arts traditions, pulling from each of them the particular techniques that are most effective and useful in real-world situations.
This unique nature of Krav Maga means that studios like IDF Training that specialize in it are now among the busiest and most popular of all. As is detailed and depicted at idftraining.com.au, students of all backgrounds and goals find in Krav Maga an especially appealing way of becoming more secure and capable of going with confidence wherever their lives might take them.
Because it pulls from so many different martial arts, krav maga techniques is an especially well rounded discipline. IDF Training instructors guide their students through everything from powerful strikes to subtle, debilitating holds, helping them understand when each of these approaches will be most appropriate. Idftraining experts also take great pains to show students how to defend against all of these techniques, too, of course, so that they will never be victimized unnecessarily.
While the ancient Asian martial arts still have their attractions, then, it is increasingly much younger ones like Krav Maga and Brazilian ju-jitsu that attract the most attention. With mixed martial arts only becoming more popular as time passes, it seems likely that this development will continue.
