Though Martial Arts is an ancient and rather traditional word, MMA is very new and modern in comparison. Under the common name of Martial Arts, there are more than 100 styles of almost equally many countries of this world. One study says there are as many as about 180 styles existing [1]. 

Though all are not equally popular, and some are more known to all of us than the rest, still all of them belong under the domain of Martial Arts and have their own positives as well as negatives. The most popular ones tend to be the most powerful ones though. Especially the arts belonging to Asian oriental countries like China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc. are among the most powerful ones as they are considered. And most of them originated and rooted in Indian regions and later spread all throughout the Asian lands. 

Mixed Martial Arts is a big collection of all the powerful and positive things from all those traditional Martial Arts. As I said, every style have got their strengths and weaknesses. Not only in the forms and stances, but also the way they condition themselves, in their workout processes. Now not everything of every style we need. Thus we find our needs and then find what elements of any style are working towards that need. Thus formed the Mixed Martial Arts. 

It is said that the concept of Mixed Martial Arts became popular with Bruce Lee and his Jeet Kune Do. In Jeet Kune Do, he researched through many Martial Arts and found and compiled all those useful elements into one style he named Jeet Kune Do. He had big plans and dreams with Jeet Kune Do but unfortunately he departed early from this world.

Before Bruce Lee also there were examples of such combinations of styles and compilation of good points in different styles of Kung Fu, Karate and other oriental Martial Arts. But the scale and intensity of Bruce Lee was far higher. And he used to do great researches in all domains of Martial Arts as well as in indirect subjects like human health and Sciences. 

Why I Prefer the Term and Concept of MMA?

I started my journey of Martial Arts through the usual traditional Martial Arts. I trained in some local Karate and Taekwondo facilities. And I have seen and known different areas of exercises as I pursued areas like strength training and powerlifting. Western boxing was also of great interest to me and I used to train myself in that also. Then for a long period of time I was out of everything due to various types of family and health issues that kept me overwhelmed and bewildered. Once I thought that my sports and Martial Arts career are forever over in this life. I lost all hope. 

But with time certain things kept changing and as things got at least a little bit doable and copeable, I am trying to rekindle the light of Martial Arts and associated philosophies, like the Indian Vedic philosophies and systems as well as modern Science within me. Though standing at this age of late 40 things are not going to be any easy for me. But when it is about Martial Arts, I love every challenge. And also I would like to share my knowledge and experience with all as I keep progressing on my path. And that is the purpose of this website and my training facilities. 

With whatever experience I have gained on Martial Arts till now, I felt that it is always a better idea to work on and with multiple traditional Martial Arts instead of just one. That will give us the total knowledge, the total training and thus the total performance. And that is exactly what we do in MMA. It’s all Martial Arts mixed to one. And I like it that way. So I prefer the term and concept or philosophy of MMA. 

Modern MMA seems to have no boundaries. It is equally open to conservative styles like Shaolin Kung Fu and modern systems like the western boxing. And this is what I like the best in Modern MMA. And that is the reason I adopted that term in my website and training facility also. 

And I am not just mixing the traditional Martial Arts. With all means, whatever I have, I am trying to mix the whole sphere of Vedic knowledge and the whole sphere of modern Science, wherever relevant or possible by me. That will indeed become a great recipe as I think or expect.