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MMA, a team sport?

  • 06-02-2006 11:56am
    #1
    fianna.5u.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭


    Okay, I've had many conversations about MMA and if it is a team sport or not.

    We'll what do you think?

    Peace

    MMA, Team sport or not? 4 votes

    How would I know? / I don't care
    0%
    It is not a team sport
    0%
    It is a team sport
    100%
    uberpixiedlofnepdunkamaniatomboru 4 votes


Comments

  • #2
    MOBB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭MOBB


    The fighting itself is definitely an individual thing but i think the training and preparation for a match is a team effort cos we all learn from each other.


  • #3
    Darkwarrior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭Darkwarrior


    Couldn't have explained it any better MOBB.

    It is neither a team nor an individual sport and at the same time it is both. And that's what makes it the BEST sport!


  • #4
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    It is a team sport
    Without a good team, you won't get the essential training needed.. but you as an individual need to step into the ring/cage and fight. Nobody else can do that for you. It's an individual sport, but relys on a good team for training.


  • #5
    schmooFlan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭schmooFlan


    dlofnep wrote:
    Without a good team, you won't get the essential training needed.. but you as an individual need to step into the ring/cage and fight. Nobody else can do that for you. It's an individual sport, but relys on a good team for training.

    Speaking purely as a watcher of the sport, and not a particpant, it seems
    that even when the individual steps in to the ring, having his team there
    in his corner makes a big difference. Everything from the "Gracie train"
    walking to the ring, to have a coach giving advice from the side seems
    to make a big difference to the fighters. And when you look at fighters
    who do well, they often seem to come from strongly defined teams, chute box or golden glory or whoever. Even if it's a team with only one main
    figher, like cro cop, it still seems that his coaches form a strong team
    with him.

    The only big loner I can think of who does well is Minowa, and now I think
    I read he's joined the brazilian top team?


  • #6
    Colm_OReilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,577 ✭✭✭Colm_OReilly


    It is an individual sport, plain and simple. Every other individual sport I can think of also requires a training team so it's not unique about MMA that you need to train with a team.


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  • #7
    MaxBax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭MaxBax


    Yep, it's an individual sport in the same way boxing is and you in theory could train with just one coach and no other peers.

    But, in rugby, you train together and play together. In MMA/simialr you train together and fight independently. But, the amount of time training is >>>>>>>> time fighting so it does have all those traits of team sports.


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