From your sentence, I was not sure if you were comparing mma to all athletics or just to TMA as you refer to both...??
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I consider MMA a sport, i.e., a subset of all sports activity as a generalization.
I am not sure how much research you have done or personal experience you have regarding athletics, or other sporting activities, to be disagreeing there and claiming such. Top, and even intermediate athletics, has a high degree of mental and psychological work that is done as part of the training. For a long time now a lot of the commercial, competitive sports world has placed emphasis on this also. Name an NBL or major league team that doesn't have a dedicated sports psychologist as part of their get-up?
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|Life experience and empirical experience / observations in the dojo. Professional sport training vs. non-such aside, you have to take the detailed information I've posted and see if you come to believe that what I've advocated matches the Okinawan Masters teachings.
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I really like how you discuss the issue and bring out differing viewpoint to mine. Your personal comparison to the Okinawan Master's teaching is how you yourself come to grips with the 'truth.'
This is just crazy talk from someone who has never had a serious competitive fight, sorry to put it like that but that is exactly how this comes across...you need a corner man (or team), especially when you are injured or tiring, to re-focus you, inform you about what you are forgetting or not focusing on and let you know what you are missing re your opponent, what to avoid, angles to work, weaknesses to exploit (either during the fight, if rules allow, or when you are in the corner between rounds)
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What makes you think I haven't been challenged in my life or found myself in a self-defense situation with a physically superior opponent? I've already posted on this. One of the opponents where the 2 students (@ dojo) were challenging me (LIKE YOU) was a officer [Captain?] in charge of a platoon of military police where they train professionally? for both combative & law enforcement real life situations.
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The concept of a corner man is of course gospel in the sport fighting world, especially including MMA. And of course a corner man can be of benefit. Try not to challenge me with obvious. What I said is that I PERSONALLY don't need a corner man and I explained my philosophy on the instructor role in earlier posts. Traditional martial arts is about individual development, not the team dictating your success. The latter is sports....
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If we are in kumite competing against one another, and you think you will benefit from having a coach yelling instructions to you as I smash you in the face so fast you don't have time to react.... you are welcome to a corner man. As between 'rounds' my aim is you never get to round 2. If you don't understand the traditional karate foundation and how to apply it in kumite, IMO, the wrong time to learn in the middle of a competition. It's not my corner man against your corner man in kumite. See YT for example, say Shotokan.
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In traditional karate, where fights are won or lost in fractions of a second, all the thinking is solely up to you. In sports like MMA where we dance around in the Thai clinch for 30 seconds where neither opponent know how to break the stalemate, sure yell over to the corner man for the solution--since you clearly aren't prepared to do it on your own....
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The Greg Jackson's of the world have made fame & fortune from your approach, and with good results. My approach is Greg Jackson's opponent reliance on Greg Jackson is going to be a huge weakness for the Greg Jackson 'team competitor,' because I already know--by my traditional karate training--the bread of my tactical expertise backed by the depth & sophistication of the traditional karate foundation--what needs to be done. the simple primal question is can I or can't i do it?
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OK, so you don't need one but to say you are your own corner man...well, ok, maybe you are greater and more Omni-aware than all the world champions that have gone before you...but how likely is that?
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I realize this is a forum where members like to socialize. Since you can't win on the issues, you talk your way to victory by talking down your opponent. How typical pre-fight MMA interview-like. Note how you have, at the end, also appointed yourself as the "referee.' Silly. Might get an interview with some MMA schools though, grant you that..... Is that your agenda?