UWM

Although I have a long background in martial arts, I’ve never been a big fan of most fighting competions. Whether it is boxing, MMA, sparring, or something else they all have to cope with the same basic issues. Primarily:

1. Real vs. safe
2. Real vs. entertaining

Real fighting isn’t safe, and many effective techniques and styles aren’t entertaining.

On top of that, I subscribe heavily to martial arts as self-defense, and for obvious reasons fighting competitions aren’t self-defense.

With all that said, I still frequently wish for better ways to train in realistic scenarios. In my classes we have to favor safe over real pretty heavily, but it always leaves students wondering how something would play out without x restriction.

So, whether for use in competition or not, I’ll be interested to see if this goes anywhere: Unified Weapons Master

Via: Popular Science