Why? I enjoy practicing FMA empty-hand work, but I use it to supplement an existing boxing/karate/Muay Thai-bases striking skill set. Most places that teach FMA will focus on weapons work. If you want to participate in MMA, you need to work in a format that, in part or whole, translates to the skills you'll use for MMA.
If you want to use FMA for MMA, find a school that has specific empty-hand classes, regardless of "style".
Yeah, Yaw-yan is a empty hand Filipino martial art that has a reputation for beating muay thai fighters in the their own country and ours to. There are times when the muay thai fighter is victorious, but not after a hard *** beat down. Another would be sikaran which relies a lot of kicks, its a lot of low line kicks rather than really really high jumping ones because its much more practical to know how to deal with people who kick you in the leg and disable you. Kicking high is an easy thing for a sikaran player to deal with.
I think most some fma are not suited for mma. Some use weapons primarily and some use the small grappling like Japanese jiu jitsu, hapkido and aikido and to me it hard to catch other peoples hands, arms and feet when there good at there style of martial arts. With regular people that don't know anything may be different like on the streets. Just my opinion.
the only one i know of is eskrima and that is mainly using weapons but why would you want that as a base? stick to using boxing and add muay thai,wrestling,and bjj/submission wrestling to your game its 2014 man use what is effective and not what looks cool...
