TMA

"True martial artist", almost always used disparagingly to speak about someone who doesn't like changes in his or her martial art, for a number of reasons. These reasons tend to revolve around either the ability to make money by offering to teach a "pure" form of a martial art, or simply for the aura of legitimacy and lineage.

student 1: "that teacher claims to teach pure JKD, but he really just teaches a sloppy Wing Chun."
student 2: "so he thinks he's a tma?"

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