[QUOTE="Lord Roco,  post: 11877, member: 395"]
MMA is a mix of many martial arts and it means that only a person having knowledge and skill in multiple martial arts can take part in an MMA competition. Do you think such people would have to spend too much time practicing various martial arts compared to those who are focussing on a single niche martial arts?

For example, the MMA academy in my locality has class hours from 2 to 6 PM whereas the local Karate club has their practice hours from 3 to 5 PM.
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To be better at MMA, you need to have different options in terms of skills that you can use on am opponent. So, I don't get the reason I would expect those involved in only karate to spend the same number of time.