fighting( MMA)

We have had fighting for a long time and we still use it today either as a sport, to cause violence or to protect ourselves. There is many ways to use our fists as weapons. This movie is all about MMA(mixed martial arts) and it has every style of fighting we have today. This movie has scenes of a tournament that shows many different styles that show how each style use there fists and feet differently to cause pain to each other or to defend ourselves.This movie resembles the real life of the UFC( ultimate fighting championship). For example at 0:30-0:50 it shows how to use your feet to knock the guy out.also at 3:10-3:20, you can also see how people use submission to take out their opponent. In MMA you find styles that are too fancy and that doesn't work in this sport as this video shows a great example at 3:33-3:45, the guy is to busy jumping around and trying to look good and we finally get closer the other guy just knocks him out cold. My favorite sport is MMA because it takes all anger out and it is a great stress re-leaver. MMA also is the number 1 sport for contact because it is all fighting, not just standing up but you can take your opponent to the ground and beat them up or even choke them out till the tap out. To tap out is when you make your opponent give up by taping the mat or any other thing around them (opponent or themselves), this is called a submission, agreat example is in the clip at 4:55-5:10. MMA is becoming one of the biggest sports today as it is getting more popular as football players are switching over to MMA as it is more of a contact sport.

fighting with our body

Our hands, feet and other body parts were used as weapons since the beginning of time and are still used today. In this movie it shows how we use out hands and feet as weapons and also different styles of fighting, to either defend or attack, but our hands and feet were not our first weapon. our first weapon was our mind. Our mind is the first weapon as we use this to plan our attacks and also to invent other weapons and how we can defend or attack others. without our mind we would have none of the weapons today nor would we have the fighting styles and skills. In many martial arts such as karate you are trained to use your mind and know how to use it before using a real weapon. We see this in many movies such as karate kid, and never back down. this film just shows us a form of fighting with evolved from our mind.