The MMA Warrior

A slice before the midnight hour, I powered-up my phone on quickly to review any important calls that I had missed in my absence. A few moments later, the consistent drone of annoying hum of message alerts began. Scanning quickly through the myriad of texts, I stumbled upon one that stood out. Somewhere rolling along the 1,300 mile stretch of the I81 as they were headed home, Abbey and Jory Malone had sent me a text of their BJJ tournament. It was a humble message that noted their extraordinary triumph, the anguish of injury and the noble determination that only a great champion knows. I waited anxiously till the morn to call them.

“Pursue the enemy with the utmost audacity.”
General George Patton

It has become a darling of sporting media in the last few years, the modern gladiator, the combative athlete in the many fighting styles. Where once was a unique and rarely visited domain within the cages, octagon’s or mat’s has now all of sudden become, dare-I-say, become popular in the mainstream. Oddly while there are few sporting activities that I feel were as overdue for acceptance and respect as the combative athlete, yet with this new found publicity, invariably some peculiarities would arrive with it as well. It wouldn’t be too long before a hodge-podge of training equipment and theories would be pitched to the new found combative athlete market and possibly most disturbing is the modern profile of this combative athlete was decidedly different from the classic vision, which I whole-heartedly embrace.

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J. Davies