Mixed Martial Arts

A lot of people feel that mixed martial art is a very adaptable and powerful system for combat. I myself agree to it. This is because of the wide range of combat contact within MMA system. The modern context of MMA has been largely misunderstood as grappling and submissive techniques in fighting, since most MMA competitions end up on the ground.

MMA is a system of MIXED martial arts. In fact, this modern term is just a term to describe the use of cross-disciplines in martial arts from different nationality or culture.

In fact, I would like to bring the awareness of some traditional forms of martials arts or kungfu that are mixed martial arts system themselves.

One such example is the chinese Mantis Kungfu. It started off with simple hand-to-hand strikes, feinting, parrying, dodging, and side-steps. Gradually, the Mantis Kungfu evolves radically to include kicking, locking, throws, standup submissions, and even the soft art of Taiji in the form of Taiji Mantis Kungfu.

Another example is the chinese Dragon Kungfu. Dragon kungfu originated long ago in its primitive form of the practise of chi flow within the practitioner body. With proper controlled breathing techniques to generate extreme inhuman speed, agility and strength. Gradually, in the art of Shaolin kungfu, the Dragon is used in the form of Dragon claw or grip, with the primary purpose of strong grip on vital points on the enemies body so as to control their movements, inflict locks or breaking techniques, or to suppress them with 'sinking' techniques. The Dragon form then slowly evolves into a stand-alone form with more techniques like the 'Sky Dragon' in flying kicks or leap attacks, ' Earth Dragon' which was borrowed from the primitive 'Dog Kungfu' that incorporates throws, crouching submissions, ground-fighting, ground defense, and ground submissions (BJJ equivalent), and 'Divine Dragon' in the form of those awesome flips, aerials and twists to apply in speedy evasion from enemies.

Apart from chinese martial arts, I am also aware that Korean art like hapkido and han mu do are also evolution from traditional Korean art like Taekkyon and throwing techniques. I also believe that many martial arts of different culture has evolved from traditional forms to hybrid or mixed forms.

Therefore, MMA is not a new system, and most importantly as martial artists or fighters, no matter which style of combat is not important, the importance lies in the perfection of your own style. The passion, pride and perseverance of your own style is more important than learning too many techniques that you may not be able to apply in self-defense or combat.

Giving up Seats to those who Need in Public Transportation

It is not the first time I witness such an incident that people can be so oblivious to their surrounding. An elderly women, obviously old in her sixties or seventies, can be left standing in the train with no one offering a seat to her.

I am pretty irritated at how Singaporeans are becoming. Everyone for himself. Most of the commuters were strong, healthy looking individuals, at least strong than that elderly woman. However, why they could not even offer a seat to her?

Just as I was standing pondering over this issue, there was this Indian man (he did not look local by the way), who stood up from far and brought the old woman to his seat.

This Indian man was clearly not local, maybe a Bangladeshi. That very moment, I had a great respect for this man's action. Not only did he represent his own moral values, but also he represented the entire non-local Indian population's moral values.

I have heard Singaporeans who looked down upon them. Now, I think it is time we think twice before looking down on such non-locals. We, educated people with at least an 'O' level or diploma, could not even match a Bangladeshi in terms of moral values. Most of the commuters who were sitting down were decently dressed with office attire. Others were at least secondary school students.

I am not generalizing all Singaporeans as ungracious people. However, I would like to make it clear that each one of us represents our entire Singapore population, our own education system, and our parents' upbringing. Therefore, it is best that it is time we wake up and shake off our selfish character so that we can stop this vicious cycle of immoral actions from perpetuating within our society. The rationale is if we as the adult population in Singapore do not feel anything wrong about this actions, we will not be able to educate our next generation of Singaporean what is right or wrong.

Let us start looking out for people around us to care for and help. =)