by Andy_S on Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:46 pm
SNIP
Thats what boxing is though too.
SNIP
Actually, it is the other way round. Modern sanda developed with very heavy input from the Olympic boxing program at Beijing Sports University.
Personally, I thing it is both too late and unnecessary to reinvent boxing. MMA is moving from strength to strength, and I suspect it is going to continue to gain prominence as the most watched combat sport, and also as the most influential form of MA training. It has come a huge distance in just a decade and a half - imagine how big it will be in another 20 years.
As the format which allows the widest variety of technique since (AFAIK) the pankration of the ancient Greeks, it is the perfect proving ground for both fighters and fighting styles and so is a stern enforcer of honesty and realism - albeit, with the proviso that it IS a sport, not a back-alley-street-fight-to-the-death (etc, etc).
Services available:
Pies scoffed. Ales quaffed. Beds shat. Oiks irked. Chavs chinned. Thugs thumped. Sacks split. Arses goosed. Udders ogled. Canines consumed. Sheep shagged.Matrons outraged. Vicars enlightened. PM for rates.