Coach Jackson Interview
By John Fullilove, jacksons.tv
jacksons.tv: What is the relationship between martial arts and MMA?
Coach Jackson: Well MMA is kind of the competitive version of martial arts; so MMA gives us a laboratory in which we can find out what techniques are more effective, what techniques are sometimes effective and what techniques are not very effective at all. So, you got a situation where you can think of moves or come up with ideas or do things that are actually at work in this laboratory called the cage. So, you get to test out your hypothesis and see how it works. It’s the competitive end of martial arts. Martial arts to me encompasses a lot, weapons, non-weapons but for us it’s mostly non-weapons.
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