Hey guys and girls,
Having trained in martial arts from the age of 9, i now train in mix martial arts, this is incorporates grappling (judo, roman-greco wrestling), and striking (boxing, thai boxing, Tae Kwon Do and others). Although i train at amateur level i still see a few repeated injuries which i would like to attain if they are synonymous with MMA participants or occur in other sports, such a football etc!
I would like to attain an idea of what medics think of the sport?
The Ultimate Fighting Championship
http://www.ufc.com/ has become a popular sporting franchise, and MMA is becoming one of the fastest growing sports world wide.
The BMA want to ban sports such as boxing,(
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/BoxingPU) based on research of head trauma sustained during fights, however with this ban on boxing, there would be pressure for MMA to be banned. However due to the different style of fighting, i.e. in boxing there is sustained upper body, head contact resulting in head trauma, eye injuries and potential to promote other serious health conditions
This is not always true in MMA, where is the opportunity to grapple and therefore remove the amount of sustained head contact, which would other wise occur in a boxing match. There are other ways to win in MMA, such as submission i.e. a joint lock, therefore reducing the incidence of head trauma.
This is something i'd like to research to confirm whether MMA is a safer sport than boxing or to provide some more guidance to the BMA and the UFC in terms of its real morbidity potential!
It would be cool if you guys would give me yor opinions
Cheers Hessyniebla!
