Mma vs Traditional Martial Arts
Abstract
The challenges facing Martial Arts schools across the nation are many, leading to the closing doors and knowledge being lost. Overcoming these challenges is not easy but possible. These challenges include self defense being put in the hands of devices (guns, tazers, mace, pepper spray), Mixed Martial Arts stealing clients, the bad economy, and the digital age causing laziness and instant gratification desires in our young people. Each of these obstacles is addressed, and explained why they are just new obstructions to overcome. Hand to Hand combat will never be replaced, Mixed Martial Arts can be combined and expounded upon, the economy gives a great opportunity to give extra values to students, and the digital age gives enormous advances for advertising and communication. Through hard yet smart work overcoming these barriers can lead to opportunities.
Martial Arts losing their Arts Many traditional martial arts are thousands of years old, and provide rich culture and heritage and well as providing physical, emotional, and mental benefits, yet they are on the decline (Knight). However, there is still a need for mental and physical discipline, the world still must exercise for health and stress relief. Also, there is a growing need for self defense and confidence building in our young people with cyber bullying, and the world becoming more competitive and smaller with technology. It is quite the paradox, basic economics teach us if there is a greater need supply, should be going up, not down. Over the last 18 month I have seen four martial arts dojos close their doors or drastically change their business model, whom I have directly trained with worked for professionally. I have studied martial arts intermittently since I was 16 years old in Judo, Fencing, Kenpo, and a style of Kung Fu. Schools who were once full and had multiple locations have been closing doors. As a student of the martial arts, and as a business professional who have helped
The challenges facing Martial Arts schools across the nation are many, leading to the closing doors and knowledge being lost. Overcoming these challenges is not easy but possible. These challenges include self defense being put in the hands of devices (guns, tazers, mace, pepper spray), Mixed Martial Arts stealing clients, the bad economy, and the digital age causing laziness and instant gratification desires in our young people. Each of these obstacles is addressed, and explained why they are just new obstructions to overcome. Hand to Hand combat will never be replaced, Mixed Martial Arts can be combined and expounded upon, the economy gives a great opportunity to give extra values to students, and the digital age gives enormous advances for advertising and communication. Through hard yet smart work overcoming these barriers can lead to opportunities.
Martial Arts losing their Arts Many traditional martial arts are thousands of years old, and provide rich culture and heritage and well as providing physical, emotional, and mental benefits, yet they are on the decline (Knight). However, there is still a need for mental and physical discipline, the world still must exercise for health and stress relief. Also, there is a growing need for self defense and confidence building in our young people with cyber bullying, and the world becoming more competitive and smaller with technology. It is quite the paradox, basic economics teach us if there is a greater need supply, should be going up, not down. Over the last 18 month I have seen four martial arts dojos close their doors or drastically change their business model, whom I have directly trained with worked for professionally. I have studied martial arts intermittently since I was 16 years old in Judo, Fencing, Kenpo, and a style of Kung Fu. Schools who were once full and had multiple locations have been closing doors. As a student of the martial arts, and as a business professional who have helped
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