my following post doesn't really have anything to do with China-India tensions.
Regarding the issue of traditional vs MMA, I would say the problem is definitely not with the traditional martial arts itself but it's with it's practitioners, I saw some videos of MMA vs traditional "masters" & what happens in most of them is that the moment these "masters" get punched they are absolutely shocked! as if they actually never ever experienced a punch! and even when they do successfully punch & kick the MMA opponent the MMA fighter is not affected at all because these "masters" have zero physical strength, it's like watching a skinny girl punching Hulk Hogan.
How could you call yourself a master in any fighting style if you haven't actually been in any fight your whole life?
no matter what fighting style you use, the most important things are: physical strength , how good your instincts are , real on the ground experience and finnaly your ability to stay cool & focus when you are under pressure.
These so called traditional martial arts masters are nothing like that, if anything they are con artists not martial artists, they punch like little girls , they crumble mentally the moment a fight starts.
I would say the best way to save traditional martial arts is through big tournaments, prepare big prizes (money) the prize will ensure that there will be massive competition so the fighters will train hard to build up their speed & physical strength, the reason why MMA succeeded is because it attracted real fighters who have been training to make their punches & kicks stronger & as they fought each other they accumulated real on the ground experience, unlike the experience that the "masters" acquired from some textbook.
That is why Muay thai succeeded to a large degree, because it's practitioners train themselves & fight a lot to be better.
The Muay thai kid at the beginning can probably kick faster than any of these traditional "masters" because that kid has actually been training to get faster & more powerful legs while the "masters" have barely done any training their whole life
And one last thing "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice", if their is any flaw in any martial art, then it needs to be fixed so that it survives, insisting on keeping the tradition pure is stupid, a successful modified traditional fighting style that has lost a lot of it's tradition is better than a pure traditional fighting style that has lost all relevance.
