Hi everyone today I’m going to talk about my favorite sport which is Mixed Martial Arts also known by its acronym, "MMA". This sport is  is a full-contact combat sport that allows both striking(directed physical attack with either a part of the human body) and grappling( techniques, maneuvers, and counters applied to an opponent) , both standing and on the ground, using techniques from other combat sports and martial arts like  Boxing, Karate, ,Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo etc.

I started to watch this sport when I was 14 years old approximately, in that time this sport was not very popular because it was considered too violent but fortunately trough the last couple of years this idea has changed and this sport has been growing constantly. I like this sport because I’ve grown watching martial arts movies and cartoons.

In order to practice this sport you need to have special equipment, mainly a couple of small open-fingered gloves, this is required mainly because to avoid hand and wrist injuries and reduce the occurrence of cuts during the fights, also if you are man, you will need to wear a groin protector. I haven’t practice this sport but I think in the future I would like to do it.

This sport in our country is not as popular as other sports but I think in the near future it will be at least as popular as other combat sports, like boxing for example.