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  1. 1. a world tournament

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"We're not studying the arts for other people's entertainment."

it doesn't need to be televised.

Yep. One of the few good quotes from the movie "Bloodsport" was this: "Kumite is for the fighters, not the people who read newspapers"

Aodhan

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.


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thats a good quote :)

anyways it would have to be under MMA style rules(maybe a little less) because otherwise you give either strikers or graplers the advantage (yes i know MMA gives strikers a small advantage), if there was a TKD expert who wanted to compete and he got beaten by a Judo guy cause he dident know how to grapple then the Judo guy was beaten by a kyokushin fighter cause he didnet know how to strike the better fighters would still be on top regaurdless of who met who on the way up.

oh yea a small thought who would be allowed to fight? would it be the best people from each style or would it be opean?

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thats a good quote :)

anyways it would have to be under MMA style rules(maybe a little less) because otherwise you give either strikers or graplers the advantage (yes i know MMA gives strikers a small advantage), if there was a TKD expert who wanted to compete and he got beaten by a Judo guy cause he dident know how to grapple then the Judo guy was beaten by a kyokushin fighter cause he didnet know how to strike the better fighters would still be on top regaurdless of who met who on the way up.

oh yea a small thought who would be allowed to fight? would it be the best people from each style or would it be opean?

You'd almost have to make it open, otherwise you run the risk of the qualifying tournaments losing some very good people. You get some schmuck that has the tournament of several lifetimes and qualifies over some guy that had a cold that day and could barely walk.

And yeah, you'd have to limit the techniques, which already starts to delineate a watered down tourney.

Aodhan

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.


-Douglas Everett, American hockey player

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You can't water down the techniques, because if you do then you can't show the art to it's fullest potential.

Which is why you can't have rules...

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Because although it has been argued repeatedly that MMA rules no longer really favor strikers or grapplers, it definitely disfavors 'real-aspect' combatants. The rules exist that prevent people from fighting as they would in a street scene, when their lives are on the line. The ultimate goal of the martial arts is to ensure you survive a confrontation, not win in a competition, therefore the goal of a competition that is geared towards finding the 'best of the best' should stay focused on the ultimate goal of the martial arts, not the ultimate goal of 'sport competition.'

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