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Mixed martial arts is not a martial art

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11510%2F22%3A10448830" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11510/22:10448830 - isvavai.cz</a>

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Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Mixed martial arts is not a martial art

  • Original language description

    This chapter discusses the nature and character of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), and its relation to other categories of martial activities. We begin with the conclusions of our earlier paper on Martial Categories, by introducing five different basic categories of martial activities, that are identified according to their differing structural purposes, namely close combat, warrior arts, martial arts, martial paths, and martial sports. After some discussion of the nature and point of categorization, we discuss the relation of MMA to the three most relevant categories - martial arts, combat sports, and close combat.MMA is sometimes &apos;hyped&apos; as if it were a kind of close combat, but it clearly is not, since MMA has more rules, is less deadly, and is more safetified. Neither is MMA a martial art, since martial arts emphasise not only the learning of more or less safetified martial techniques, but also the cultivation of self and moral virtues, which MMA does not.In asking the question answered in our title, we conclude that MMA is neither a kind of close combat nor a martial art, but a martial sport - specifically, a member of the sub-set: combat sports.

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagon

  • ISBN

    978-0-367-64162-7

  • Number of pages of the result

    12

  • Pages from-to

    4-15

  • Number of pages of the book

    180

  • Publisher name

    Routledge

  • Place of publication

    London

  • UT code for WoS chapter