It is perhaps the hardest discipline in the world, with grueling workouts that involve a number of other sports, from football to boxing, going to wrestling. They mixed martial arts.
The main organization in the world of mixed martial arts is the American Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), able to set up a turnover considerably, reaching half a billion dollars a year. Athletes of the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) join the NFL, the National Football League and American, for basic training so he can get to the top of the athletic training in order to sustain the fighting. In the ring, however, perfect technique and agility, then to focus on maximal aerobic power or maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), which is necessary to fight as long as possible, until the end of his strength, and to strike blows stronger.
martial arts, mixed
Mixed martial arts
The numbers better explain what can be harsh mixed martial arts, starting from potentiates average of a punch landed by a professional UFC, which is able to reach the 680 kg. The goal is to hit the opponent's face and the average accuracy of the blows inflicted by professional wrestlers comes to 52%. The wounds that are given during a fight in mixed martial arts involve the face in 47% of cases, and the wrestlers who suffer violent trauma are about 3%.
The origins of mixed martial arts are Eastern: the first official organization called "Shooto", is in fact born in Japan in 1985. In Italy, however, the establishment of the first association was in 1997, but the boom in spreading the discipline broke about ten years later.