With traditional arts, you're going to get a mixed bag. Some styles, like Kyokushin, produce some very tough fighters. Other styles peddle useless technique "drills" against nonresisting opponents. This thread is dedicated to some of the less common arts that spar against resisting opponents at full speed and force: Tomiki Aikido / Shodokan Aikido http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-AdZo3nrDk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7U6p4dtxvw Glima (Icelandic Belt Wrestling) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_haS_FaTekE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUx2pOqtTiM Danbe (Nigerian fist-fencing; no left hand punching permitted) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWowaDfsN8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjlsd6hDtm0 Tai Chi Push Hands Competition (practicing "uprooting"; very limited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWZJEehHK-c The World Shin-Kicking Championships (derived from Devonshire wrestling) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGXDwbzlJKw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN21wCbxjWk Bartitsu Sparring (Reconstructed Edwardian martial art) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf7BaLR_L1g Full Contact Hapkido http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJX4L304PSo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k15vKx7Dsw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOCgfuajpJs Senegalese "Wrestling" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBoe4L2jb9A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWw9UKzHAo St. Petersburg Wing Chun Championships http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCC_cw5obR0 Shuai Jiao Wrestling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3e_9h3JHfI Pehlwani Wrestling (India) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDHybRQ2tdU Kalaripayutti (India) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3DhZKgZRFM Bajiquan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krs6KWBZ_yg Savate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Bxh39MznA
And again, I've somehow posted this in the wrong section. Mods, could you please transfer this to the MMA forum? Sorry about that.
