Message from @fallot

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2017-08-27 01:03:47 UTC  

I have tried and failed to get into it as an extension of my boxing interest

2017-08-27 01:04:01 UTC  

boxing is cool, MMA is not

2017-08-27 01:04:21 UTC  

why? No idea

2017-08-27 01:04:22 UTC  

I have concluded that combat sports benefit from some abstraction away from real combat

2017-08-27 01:04:32 UTC  

yeah

2017-08-27 01:04:37 UTC  

like gladiatoral bouts

2017-08-27 01:04:42 UTC  

or ritualized duels

2017-08-27 01:05:00 UTC  

plain old scrapping is for worldstar

2017-08-27 01:05:09 UTC  

yes. mma suffers from being somewhat too real

2017-08-27 01:05:16 UTC  

well

2017-08-27 01:05:18 UTC  

but then not real enough

2017-08-27 01:05:20 UTC  

as well

2017-08-27 01:05:23 UTC  

so worst of both worlds

2017-08-27 01:05:32 UTC  

although the concept is interesting and I think it's been a worthwhile experiment

2017-08-27 01:05:46 UTC  

another thing I hate about it

2017-08-27 01:05:49 UTC  

though its incidental

2017-08-27 01:05:51 UTC  

TATTOOS

2017-08-27 01:06:00 UTC  

it was more fun in the old days with Rickson Gracie and Ken Shamrock

2017-08-27 01:06:07 UTC  

and fedor

2017-08-27 01:06:12 UTC  

yeah

2017-08-27 01:06:29 UTC  

that was really mixed martial arts

2017-08-27 01:06:36 UTC  

Street Fighter 2 (lore) style

2017-08-27 01:06:40 UTC  

yeah

2017-08-27 01:06:53 UTC  

but seriously tattoos.

2017-08-27 01:06:54 UTC  

the problem with mixed martial arts is that once htey are mixed they can't get unmixed

2017-08-27 01:06:57 UTC  

there was a recent good fight like that. Demian Maia vs Woodley

2017-08-27 01:06:59 UTC  

degenerate

2017-08-27 01:07:07 UTC  

that was really a BJJ fighter vs a Boxer

2017-08-27 01:07:17 UTC  

its like looking at an open wound on reality

2017-08-27 01:07:22 UTC  

I never see the stuff I do in mma

2017-08-27 01:07:23 UTC  

ever

2017-08-27 01:07:37 UTC  

even though I have reason to think they'd fare well

2017-08-27 01:07:40 UTC  

MMA should be like Grappler Baki

2017-08-27 01:07:43 UTC  

there used to be a lot more shotokan

2017-08-27 01:07:48 UTC  

in mma

2017-08-27 01:07:57 UTC  

cant see how they would succeed now

2017-08-27 01:08:05 UTC  

whether striking bits or others

2017-08-27 01:10:08 UTC  

voice chat time

2017-08-27 01:10:10 UTC  

@Deleted User 57835c2c CAN YOU HEAR ME?

2017-08-27 01:10:16 UTC  

now it's basically bjj wrassalin and boxing

2017-08-27 01:10:20 UTC  

some muay Thai