Szilvia GombolaMMA vs.K-1
June 10th 2009 18:57
K-1 vs. MMA
To start with my monologue, I ’d like to make it clear , that in my opinion there is no such thing as „which is better?”
What I do think is that there are basically two types of fighters, the standup fighter (including all types of boxing) and the ground fighters (all types of wrestling based martial arts) .
You can see the basic differences between the 2 fighting styles pretty clear. Normally , as I have experienced most fighters are standup fighters , just like Crocop for example, however he fights for the MMA for many years, his strongest advantage have always been lying in the applcation of standup fighting techniques against the ground fighters, especially his kicks, high kicks, ground technique fighters are not good kickers and also not that prepared to receive them, but neverthless ground techniques will always remain the weaker side of Crocop, or ground fighers –such as Fedor who will always remain a ground fighter first of all.
MMA and mixed martial arts such as Ju Jitsu, Sambo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to name a few, target the application of both standup and ground techniques but all have their one feature: there are the ground techniques which dominate in any of them.
Nowadays many federations would like to challenge K-1 fighters to try themselves in MMA, and versa, but it’s always very hard to adapt an entirely different fighting style, both of them requiring different physique , different training ,even different muscles.
Most fighters just can’t adapt and rather return to their normal style. There is only a few who can adapt , like Fedor one of the best examples, and Crocop in his own ways, but usually it requires long years for a fighter to be prepared to fight a different fighting style.
Badr Hari for example, had one MMA fight, one of the shortest fights ever, he was down on the ground in about 5 seconds and about 10 second later locked in, he , as a natural born standup fighter just doesnt have anything to do with ground techniques, I think I can freely say that he might never aim to go for MMA, no matter what Overeem says on their rematch.
Normally only the ones can adapt well, who start to learn both fighting styles, in the same time but also separately. For example taking up a thai boxing class, AND a ju jitsu or simply Judo class aims for reaching the very rare case, when one is almost equally good in both of them. Almost.
To start with my monologue, I ’d like to make it clear , that in my opinion there is no such thing as „which is better?”
What I do think is that there are basically two types of fighters, the standup fighter (including all types of boxing) and the ground fighters (all types of wrestling based martial arts) .
You can see the basic differences between the 2 fighting styles pretty clear. Normally , as I have experienced most fighters are standup fighters , just like Crocop for example, however he fights for the MMA for many years, his strongest advantage have always been lying in the applcation of standup fighting techniques against the ground fighters, especially his kicks, high kicks, ground technique fighters are not good kickers and also not that prepared to receive them, but neverthless ground techniques will always remain the weaker side of Crocop, or ground fighers –such as Fedor who will always remain a ground fighter first of all.
MMA and mixed martial arts such as Ju Jitsu, Sambo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to name a few, target the application of both standup and ground techniques but all have their one feature: there are the ground techniques which dominate in any of them.
Nowadays many federations would like to challenge K-1 fighters to try themselves in MMA, and versa, but it’s always very hard to adapt an entirely different fighting style, both of them requiring different physique , different training ,even different muscles.
Most fighters just can’t adapt and rather return to their normal style. There is only a few who can adapt , like Fedor one of the best examples, and Crocop in his own ways, but usually it requires long years for a fighter to be prepared to fight a different fighting style.
Badr Hari for example, had one MMA fight, one of the shortest fights ever, he was down on the ground in about 5 seconds and about 10 second later locked in, he , as a natural born standup fighter just doesnt have anything to do with ground techniques, I think I can freely say that he might never aim to go for MMA, no matter what Overeem says on their rematch.
Normally only the ones can adapt well, who start to learn both fighting styles, in the same time but also separately. For example taking up a thai boxing class, AND a ju jitsu or simply Judo class aims for reaching the very rare case, when one is almost equally good in both of them. Almost.
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