There are certainly evolution in sport fighting. The modern evolution are taking place based on the rules of the sport. For example, boxing punches are harder than traditional styles, but take away the gloves, and I suspect that boxing will be among the first "evolved style" to discard, because the naked hand cannot sustain that much punishment. Anyone with street fighting using boxing injures their hand in someways, its only a matter of how much and it WILL accumulate. Traditional CMA punches would not be practical with boxing gloves, but they certainly hit hard enough without gloves, and would have punch less injury for the hands, because of the structure of the punch and the way they tense up only at the moment of impact.
The ground game is not more preferable. TCMA has always been weak in ground fighting, but thats due to the circumstances the art was created in the first place. People will think twice about going to the ground if they have to worry about concealed knives or other objects, as well as other attackers.
You are still thinking through a totally different martial arts system and breaking moves down into individual components. All locks in BJJ can only be properly execute through correct positioning and control is the most important aspect of the game. In similar ways, you cannot just grab someone's wrist from the get go and try to lock it. There is an entire game of mid range trapping and limb control, TCMA is NOT striking nor grappling, thats the problem modern combat sport classification tries to impose. The dividing line in TCMA is vague. This is an example of the type of control that they are fighting to gain:
Tell me if this is grappling or striking and tell me which modern combat sport addresses these. And don't use MMA to say it doesn''t work. TCMA style wrist control fighting does not work with MMA gloves on, I've tried, and anyone can do it themselves.
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