Why people keep saying MMA is a style?

MMA is not a style

MMA is the name they use to say

ANY AND ALL ways of fighting is acceptable

this isn't a muay ti fight or a wrestling match

this is anything goes....

in the beginning the fighters were only trained in one art

like wresting or boxing or jujitsu

in reality the Gracie's wanted to prove that their fighting style

would beat anyone and in the beginning it did Royce a jujitsu fighter would win 3 or 4 fights a night against fighters that were bigger than him only trained as wrestlers or boxers but now he cant hang with the fighters of today because they have trained in so many different ways

actually, you just kinda contradicted yourself. you said "You start off benig skilled in one martial art like Judo than you learn another like Jiujitsu than you learn some muay tai for strikes. That's mixed martial arts. If you look at all the champions in the UFC they all have boxing trainers and wrestling trainers and Jiujitsu Trainers that they go to seperately depending on what they need to work on more."

If people combine more than 1 martial art into 1 martial art which is esentially MMA. isnt that a style?

MMA is a style. It's true that many are trained in a single discipline first but when they transition to MMA they don't train like a one style.

Theres wrestling for MMA = they don't even think about pins, wrestling's application in MMA is takedowns and defense.

Jiu-Jitsu = They don't train the Gi techniques

See?

So there are MMA gyms that will take the styles and discard the parts not useful in MMA competition then train it as a cohesive style.

MANY if not all martial arts today have evolved to their current forms in a very similar way. They are just combos of other arts, learn some history and stop being ignorant.

The situation they usually point out is when someone is mugged. They say that if your mugged by multiple people in a small area that ones jiu jitsu would be useless because you cant preform any techniques in such a small area. They say the only way to escape is to fight dirty with eye gouges and nut shots. I have been training Jiu Jitsu for a long time so these accusations offended me at first but I think both sides of the argument need to be more open minded. Some of what they say can be true but that does not mean you should throw the martial arts out the window all together. Just be ready for anything and I think that someone who trains MA will be more ready even if they cant use an armbar or a head kick.

Interesting point.

I feel that MMA competition has influenced training facilities that now train people in "MMA". I agree this is not a style. I would encourage people to focus on one style and get a foundation before trying to learn another style.

Prior to this our city was polluted with schools that taught TKD/Karate, Ninjitusu/Muy Thai, Tang so do/ Tae Kwon do/ Kung fu ( I am not kidding), or the ever popular "Combat Systems".

We have visited these school. They all seem to be taught by people that traveled from school to school, they never mastered one system, so they take all their partial training and lump it together into a pseudo-martial art. I do not recommend these places to anyone. These MMA's are crap.

MMA = Free Style

Very few people today train to learn, they train to fight or compete. A true Karata will not want to show off his power. I have known several who kept their art to themselves for years.

I've never heard of it being refered to as a style but I guess you do have a point

how is this a question ? i think you make a good point, but this isnt even a question. create a blog for heaven's sake