What is the difference between Karate and MMA? - Fred Mergen

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The difference between MMA and American Kenpo is quite a difference. American Kenpo is more for self defense, MMA is more for sports, get in the cage. If you have something on your bucket list you say hey I want to fight one fight before I kick the bucket, you know you would want to do MMA to learn how to get in the cage and fight.

American Kenpo is more for self defense. Somebody comes up, grabs you you get to chop them, poke them, kick them you know, where as MMA is more for Annihilating your opponent in the ring cause believe it or not in MMA they still have rules. There is no biting, no kicking to the groin, no gouging the eyes which we all do in American Kenpo.

So the way I teach it is we have a class just for American Kenpo where you learn how to defend yourself and then we also have a class for MMA where if you want to get into the ring and I have some students that actually do both and they know how to separate both.

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