The New York Times style section has a photo feature on MMA called "America's Latest Martial Arts...

The New York Times style section has a photo feature on MMA called "America's Latest Martial Arts Craze". Features like this and the growing acceptance of MMA as a normal athletic activity speak to strong possibilities for the long-term future of the sport. MMA is becoming woven into the culture.

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pearls before swine

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by Nate Wilcox on Oct 8, 2009 3:48 PM EDT reply actions

Hahaha

"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito Ortiz on Vitor Belfort at Affliction:DOR

by Rundownloser on Oct 9, 2009 1:50 AM EDT up reply actions

“Kickboxing. Sport of the future.”
- Lloyd Dobler

by woooburn on Oct 8, 2009 4:22 PM EDT reply actions

Craze

Isn’t that the same word used to describe the latest new hotness that’s sweeping the nation? Usually that’s another way to say that the “trend” won’t last long (except for the hardcores)

by Krimson on Oct 8, 2009 5:05 PM EDT reply actions

Cool that they snapped two women practicing instead of sterotypical meathead jocks - MMA for All!

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett

by Scott C. Broussard on Oct 8, 2009 5:06 PM EDT reply actions

oh they got some snaps of those

look at the whole gallery.

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by Nate Wilcox on Oct 8, 2009 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Threaded into the culture just like TaeBo and the Atkins diet? Nothing’s permenant about culture, and those fancy little taekwondo belts they are wearing scare the shit out of me.

by judonerd on Oct 8, 2009 5:08 PM EDT reply actions

the "craze" for judo after WWII

kick-started America’s fascination with Japanese martial arts in a big way (there had been some interest in the teens and twenties but it was more a matter of exoticism on display rather than something Americans actually trained in) and ever since we’ve been consistently interested.
It morphed into the Kempo Karate fascination in the 1950s, Bruce Lee’s Kung Fu in the 1970s, kickboxing/Chuck Norris/Wing Tsu in the 1980s, and beginning in the 1990s MMA.

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by Nate Wilcox on Oct 8, 2009 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs