What is Aliveness - Matt Thornton

Matt Thornton explains what he means by "aliveness"

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[ATACXGYM]

If it's not Alive it's not max effective. This TMA v MMA v Ring v Street argument is silly. The Big 4 of MMA (boxing,MT,BJJ,wrestling) ARE TMAs modified for MMA sport.Period. Train any TMA in an athletic alive fashion (as it was originally conceived) and you're a beast. Keep tapping a Tai Chi guy and he'll develop groundfighting by adapting his Tai Chi to it. BJJ and wrestling don't own the ground,ask Olympic Judoka and Sombo guys.

[Crebralassassin]

This is a fantastic and educational video.

[Ljenkins9000]

@ShalKekNemRon Care to expound on that? Thought not.

Wait wait... You also just said this is a load of shit?!?!?!? Omfg. Dude just go back to your useless katas and other dancing bullshit.

[ShalKekNemRon]

@Ljenkins9000 Shows what you know about TMA

[ShalKekNemRon]

What a load of shit.

[Ljenkins9000]

Every TMA person in the world needs to see this video.

[jbravo41]

KM people know how real knife attacks work, but the defenses THEY put up are ridiculous. If that instructor u are talking about really was SBGi he should have known the STAB program, which was developed by the British head instructor of SBGi. And that program is one of the FEW realistic ones against real knife attacks. KM is fluff, and I love how they bitch against MMAers or JKDers and have nothing to show for themselves except their stupid street vs ring argumentation.

[haircutdeluxe]

Honestly, KC, there's not much I can add to this. You've pretty much summed it all up yourself, as usual, being the martial arts expert that you so clearly are.

Defending against a side-kick by bashing it with your elbow? Why do I have no problem at all visualizing you watching those tapes over, and over, and over, and then trying it out on your friends (hit me here, no, here, right there, yes!), and cuddling them tenderly after your vicious Kali-Kune-Do techniques crushed their spirits.

[Kc1189]

When they visited Isreal and hit a Krav Maga school. The MMA fighter (who I think teaches on occasion at some SBGi schools.) was trying to MMA the Krav Maga guy who was shanking him over and over with a knife. The summation of the KM instructor was he might be a hell of a fighter in the cage but he had no self defense abilities at all. I got kinda pissed when I saw someone as clueless as you appear to be trashing valid realistic training.

[Kc1189]

Now I never said I didn't train ground game. And I never said you shouldn't train a ground game. And I've tried not to bash this aliveness theory. I'm just saying for the benifet of people who are interested in defense not a sport that thinking that MMA is the same as self defense can get you killed in rougher neighborhoods. The best example is off that show Human weapon on the history channel.

[Kc1189]

Even when they covered the side of the head you just blast the arm into the head (kinda like a cueball) and it works the same. Now the one time a fag in heat jumped me from behind. I didn't know what it was called but I had him in a guiloteen tell he got out (roid rage when I hicksoned his kidney's) and I simple grabed the back of his head and dug my fingers into his eyes. He rolled over and off me faster than a $2 trick. The fight broke up as a cop pulled into the parking lot.