MMA Training and Conditioning in Illinois and Indiana

Most major styles of martial arts to enter the West from Asia since World War II have enjoyed a certain vogue status. In fact, judo was the most well-known Asian marital art in the 1950s, but with each succeeding decade came karate and kenpo, kung fu, taekwondo, and ninjitsu. Little attention, however, was paid to one of the oldest of the Asiatic martial arts-jujitsu. This changed dramatically when mixed martial arts competition was introduced to North America in the 1990s.

The guiding idea behind this type of event was to pit the various styles, methods and philosophies of combat against one another under few rules to see which prevailed. The unexpected and dramatic success of certain styles of jujitsu brought tremendous recognition and interest to this previously neglected style of combat. In a short time, the public's perception of jujitsu went form an obsolescent and ineffective art to a formidable fighting style indeed. Along with this change in perception came a massive interest in learning the techniques that enabled jujitsu fighters to do so well in MMA fights. Soon, almost every martial arts school in North America was offering "grappling and ground fighting" as part of their instruction and syllabus. This inclusion was in direct recognition of the success jujitsu had experienced as a result of its highly effective grappling technique, most of which was applied on the ground.

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