SPORT MMA

The Revolution of Sport MMA

        Over the last two decades the sport of MMA in America and across the western world has been through a phenomenal evolution both in its infrastructure and developments as supported by the UFC. Today MMA has been evolved into its own entity in the martial arts and professional sports as we know it.

While the efforts of the UFC cater to the business demographics of young men [ and recently women] between the ages of 18 and 24 it still leaves a major market behind of kids between 10 and 17 and parents between 25 and 35. On further survey it has been proven that this left out demographic greatly increases the MMA involvement, support and business substantially. The reason that these two age groups have been left behind till date is because of the violent nature of professional mma. Injuries in Professional MMA fights [although controlled in the US by the supervising sports commissions] are a fact and many Parents do not want their children participating in a sport which has a potential risk factor. In India over the last 14 years the AIMMAA has faced similar situations while developing and promoting the sport in India and thus has created the entities of 'Sport MMA' , 'Fitness MMA' and 'Traditional MMA'. Sport MMA and Traditional MMA was co-founded by Daniel Isaac [ MMA Pioneer in India] and Alan Fenandes [ BJJ pioneer in India].

   

Sport MMA Training Seminar for kids in India

Sport MMA : a sport format of mma which allows controlled strikes [ light contact and semi contact sparring ] as opposed to the 'full contact' nature of existing amateur and professional mma fights. Sport MMA provides a platform for kids and teenagers [ both male and female] to train and compete within a safe environment of the sport while training in all the different aspects of real MMA namely striking, takedowns and ground fighting.

The fundamentals of Sport MMA comprise of techniques from traditional karate, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo, taekwondo and wrestling. It is a more realistic yet cultured approach to promoting the Mixed Martial Arts to children and women.

Sport MMA has literally exploded on the Indian MMA scene and is exclusive to the Indian MMA scene. Sport MMA is now expanding across the world and will soon have its own Asian , European and International competition circuits. In Professional MMA fights the object of the fighters is to win over the opponent by hurting [ KO, TKO] him / her and / or forcing him / her to Tapout to a submission or choke hold. In Sport MMA the object is not to hurt but to win over the opponent by scoring points. This works perfectly towards what every parent would want their children to learn while yet developing and inclulcating a strong base of proper mma techniques for the student.

Traditional MMA : In 2009 and then later again in 2014 Daniel Isaac visited the United States for a martial arts teaching tour. During his last visit to Missouri and other states he noted that a vast majority of parents and guardians did not approve of their children to train in MMA because it did not focus on the values and cultures of discipline and respect which is predominant in Traditional Martial Arts. MMA focuses on its training regime being more as an activity and sport rather than a martial art. In MMA the instructor has been given the title of 'coach' rather than the title of sensei. With Traditional MMA we have begun to bridge the gap between the demographics of current MMA and Traditional Martial Arts with the new entity of TMMAA [ Traditional Mixed Martial Arts]. The result once again is a win win for the existing mma community as well as the Traditional martial arts community.

Fitness MMA : With the onset of cardio kickboxing all over the world the fitness industry experienced a sudden rise in memberships worldwide. The AIMMAA has designed an entire training regime based on MMA fighters training but designed to cater to fitness enthusiasts which has been a successful module in the AIMMAA training centres in India and soon to be introduced across the world.