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A martial art that is unrealistic for fighting. Like a lot of modern sport TKD schools. It's not useless, you will be flexible, develop kicking ability, etc. But you won't be prepared for a real fight because you have never done live sparring with real strikes, etc.
This is getting confusing
TMA was, to me, martial arts with no sparring, no competition and no ruleset. Just magical stuff and drilling self defense moves that you should be able to pull off in a real fight
TKD can be really competition oriented, they have 2 internationnal assocations that have a big competition circuit and the sport is in the olympics
The problem is not the sport but some school that choose to emphasis on something other than competition and competition training. They do very few live training
That can surely happen in BJJ also, I hear a lot about schools who barely roll, where classes are all about technique and you need to find people to stay for rolling. Those school create an atmosphere where rolling is something special when it's supposed to be normal to roll all the time.