by Andy_S on Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:55 pm
I suspect that MMA will take off in China big-time in the next few years. In Northeast Asia, trends start in Japan, move across to Korea, and then reach the mainland. Japan has a thriving MMA scence, when it comes to training or competing, and it is of huge interest in Korea. It will reach China.
What this means for CMA we shall have to see.
In Korea, TMA have NOT had success in the ring/cage, compared to the BJJers and MT guys; to put it another way, while Korea has a huge Korean-style MA community, it is the imported styles and methods that have been adopted for free-fighting.
In Japan, AFAIK, bar Kyokushin (which, I believe took on a whole range of MT techniques and training methods in the 70s) and Judo, Japanese MA have not done well in the NHB arena either.
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