Why do TMAers hate on MMA? (stereotypes you've heard about combat sports)

[Devil]

They have those attitudes because they aren't serious martial artists themselves. They love to talk about being serious martial artists. But serious martial artists seek out the truth about martial effectiveness. That search will always bring you in contact with combat sport athletes who will kick your ass and change your perspective if you're willing to look honestly at your own skills.

[goodlun]

Because MMA and Combat Sports have proven how ineffective their arts are and well they have to satisfy their own ego about the choices in life they have made.
Also because most of them have little concept of the technical aspects of a combat sport.
BJJ for example as you know is extremely technical but those who don't do any sort of ground fighting have no fucking clue as to how deep that rabbit hole goes.
They have no idea of the artistry involved.
They have no idea of the time sweat and blood it takes to to learn its depths.
So they parrot the shit other TMAers say to make them selves feel good about themselves.
The ego thing to me is the most funny.
Participating in a Combat sport is so incredibly hard on ones ego its crazy.
You constantly have to test yourself against people who are in fact better than you, and who in fact could kill you if they wanted to.
You actually step into a situation where you can lose.
Combat sports is better for developing a healthy ego than TMA arts are for sure.

[JohnnyCache]

I was talking to my friend earlier who has his own FB martial arts group (most of them do TMA) and I noticed. Why do so many Traditional Martial Artists hate on Combat sports like MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, BJJ, wrestling, and SAMBO so much?

He told me how real martial artists don't fight for money (Apparently everyone in combat sports is only in it for money, passion doesn't exist for a Combat sports athlete)

Then he tells me that all combat fighters are egotistical, and brute fighters but not real talented martial artists.

"A better martial artist isn't a better fighter. You can do martial arts and get beat up by a non-trained thug in the streets and still be a better martial artist, martial arts isn't about fighting"

Yet these same people avoid talking about TKD and Karate and their ruled competitions.

"Western martial art aren't real martial arts", etc
Why do TMAers think we're all brute meatheads? who started this trend? lol

I was trying to talk a "combat sports" guy into charging and self promoting a little MORE earlier this week.

I also find the cross-section of who walks into a given school is, well, roughly the same. It's really just a question of which door the non-initiated person walks through first.

[big maclol]

I was talking to my friend earlier who has his own FB martial arts group (most of them do TMA) and I noticed. Why do so many Traditional Martial Artists hate on Combat sports like MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, BJJ, wrestling, and SAMBO so much?

He told me how real martial artists don't fight for money (Apparently everyone in combat sports is only in it for money, passion doesn't exist for a Combat sports athlete)

Then he tells me that all combat fighters are egotistical, and brute fighters but not real talented martial artists.

"A better martial artist isn't a better fighter. You can do martial arts and get beat up by a non-trained thug in the streets and still be a better martial artist, martial arts isn't about fighting"

Yet these same people avoid talking about TKD and Karate and their ruled competitions.

"Western martial art aren't real martial arts", etc
Why do TMAers think we're all brute meatheads? who started this trend? lol