There are lot of martial art dojos/schools/organizations which mixing techniques from various unfitting fighting styles into their training nowadays. For examples:
- Teaching Sambo throws and Boxing punches all at once in one training day forcefully.
- Teaching Karate Kata dances and Kickboxing strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.
- Teaching Brazilian Jujutsu locks, Judo throws and Karate strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.
- Teaching Aikijujutsu throws, Collegiate pins and Sikaran kicks all at once in one training day forcefully.
- Teaching Pencak Silat dances, Freestyle Wrestling throws and Beipai Kungfu kicks all at once in one training day forcefully.
- Teaching Jujutsu locks, Kenpo Kata dances and Kickboxing strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.
Well, i will not mention the name of those bad dojos one by one here (too tiring because the are too much nowadays), but you can recognize it by watching how they training at the dojo.
Why (forced mixed) hybrid martial arts are bad for our safety?
Training at force-mixed hybrid dojo is worse than someone who doing cross training at 2 dojos in same time period:
- The students will be confuse because there are no focus - no clear goal in training. In real street fight, they will frozen - can’t do anything because their brain and reflex aren’t trained.
- Overtraining symptoms like confusion, failed to focus and injuries are often happen. Of course because their training duration at dojo is 1-2 hours longer than training duration at normal dojo.
- Wasting time and money for nothing, that another disadvantage from training at those dojos (they often give us expensive training fee to make their dojos looks exclusive).
Bruce Lee once said: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10.000 kicks once, but i fear the man who has practiced 1 kick 10.000 times”. Focus is everything in martial art training.
Focus and concentration are extremely important in martial arts for a variety of reasons, including improved performance, self-defense, and mental discipline. It allows practitioners to execute techniques precisely, respond effectively to opponents, and maintain composure under pressure.
Mastering just 1 useful technique is far far better than mastering 100 useless techniques.
Even real MMA champions learned their fighting techniques one by one for years focusly and not learned those all at once in one day forcefully. For examples:
- After mastering Karate, Lyoto Machida learned Brazilian Jujutsu.
- After mastering Kickboxing, Bas Rutten learned Catch Wrestling.
- After mastering Brazilian Jujutsu, Nick Diaz learned Boxing.
Focus is everything.
Another most fatal thing is daily diet, every martial arts have different daily food diet:
- Fighter's diet (like Muay thai - Boxing - Wrestling athletes) focuses on sustained endurance and heavy weight class management. High complex carbohydrates (brown rice, oats, sweet potatoes) providing slow-release energy for rigorous sparring fights and professional matches.
- Martial dancer’s diet (like Wushu Taolu - Capoeira - Pencak Silat athletes) diet prioritizes low body fat for aesthetics and agile flexibility similar to gymnastics. Emphasizes a lean body composition (often lower body fat percentages) to maximize the height-to-weight ratio needed for acrobatic moves and aerial jumps.
Doing Muay Thai full contact fighting with thin body like Wushu dancers? The opponent’s hard strike will destroy your organs!!
Doing Capoeira acrobatics with heavy body like Sumo wrestlers? You will destroy your own knees!!
