skribs
Grandmaster
As some of you may know from other posts I've made on the subject, I'm planning on opening a TKD school soon and integrating some of my BJJ training into the TKD classes. I like sparring in TKD and BJJ because they are arts where concussions are generally avoided by the rules, compared to arts where a desirable win condition is a KO, such as Muay Thai or MMA. However, I do like the idea of MMA combining striking and grappling, even if I don't like the idea of concussions.
My BJJ/Muay Thai/MMA gym has recently had our Muay Thai fighters sign up for the new MDL (Muay thai Development League) which is a point-fighting variation on Muay Thai. So I'm toying with the idea of creating a sparring ruleset that would utilize both striking and grappling (like MMA), but would focus more on points and avoid concussions in the striking phase (like TKD). The idea is to create something that might work for in-house tournaments, and if that is successful to open the tournaments to the local community.
There's one big issue that I have. If I take out KOs (and likely TKOs) as a win condition, then does that give grappling (where you can win by submission) an unfair advantage? This is something that may simply take some experimentation and lessons learned to get right.
My BJJ/Muay Thai/MMA gym has recently had our Muay Thai fighters sign up for the new MDL (Muay thai Development League) which is a point-fighting variation on Muay Thai. So I'm toying with the idea of creating a sparring ruleset that would utilize both striking and grappling (like MMA), but would focus more on points and avoid concussions in the striking phase (like TKD). The idea is to create something that might work for in-house tournaments, and if that is successful to open the tournaments to the local community.
There's one big issue that I have. If I take out KOs (and likely TKOs) as a win condition, then does that give grappling (where you can win by submission) an unfair advantage? This is something that may simply take some experimentation and lessons learned to get right.
