Bruce Lee in the UFC

[UseoForce]

alsey, you talk a lot about Bruce Lee's training methods, and how he focused on actual combat situations. However, his combat methods would translate very nicely into the ring. He did heavy bag work. He practiced kicking and striking. He trained with the likes of Bob Wall, Chuck Norris, and Gene Lebelle. He was kind of a pioneer of his time, cross training and learning from others. Bruce would probably have liked the challenge that the octagon presents, because it the closest that we can come to having a sporting event that envelopes most of the situations that you will see in real fighting.

Yes, there are some rules, because after all, it is a sport. But you cannot discount the effectiveness of MMA fighters abilities on the street, either. Their toughness and superior training and conditioning would make them very formidable on the street. And I feel that, as fighters, they would be able to adapt to the street fight very well. They do leg kicks; lower it a few inches, and you get the knee. They jab to the face; open your fingers, and you get an eye-gouge. These are all simple transitions.

As far as the medieval battle field comparison goes, you are comparing a weaponless combat to weapons combat, which is a WHOLE other world of fighting and training in and of itself, so that is really not a fair comparison, in my opinion.

Exactly.

Lee was decades ahead of his time.

And yes, I was refering to weaponless combat. My point was that because judo's training methods are typically more rigorous and fight-like than jiu-jitsu, the judo players defeated most jiu-jitsu challengers.

This does not mean judo is "better" than jiu-jitsu. Heck, Combat Hapkido is probably 50% daito ryu jiu-jitsu. I love jiu-jitsu. But when a judo school does a lot of randori and a jiu-jitsu school's students practice only against cooperative partners, the judo students will defeat the jiu-jitsu students 9/10. It doesn't matter how awesome the jiu-jitsu students' techniques are. If they never practice them against actively resisting opponents, they won't be able to apply them.

[bushido_man96]

Your point about judo, as you mentioned earlier, relates the same to boxing, Thai boxing, etc.