Effectiveness and contexts

The subject is effectiveness, or well, effectivenesses: there are various ways to consider the effectiveness all on the basis of a context.
It would be the common sense to suggest it, but it seems so difficult to admit it, especially for those who go on the tatami.or on the rings.Now I will give my personal opinion, just my opinion, about effectiveness and context.


Let's begin!
A martial art that pretend to be effective in all situations, must be based on natural movements (biomechanics), but also simple (which reduces the number of effective natural movements). Now explain why (of course, my why):
in the fighting sports they do a very big, meticulous and technical work, often greater than almost all classic martial arts. Classic martial artist's main aim is to target, for example, the testicles, the throat, eyes, chin, liver, solar plexus (the last three targets I have put here as an example because they are also prerogative of boxing, muay thai, fighting sport generally )..." vital points, considered as such in the economy of a fight: so in classical martial arts we attack these points, and we learn to protect the same points in our body.
So in some cases the technical movements of the fighting spors is the same to that of classical martial arts, while in other cases, not: for example, although there are a few details, a fingerjab has roughly the same dynamics of a Jab in Boxing. If I train the jab to the chin in sparring, I am indirectly training to use a dynamic, similar to that of fingerjab in a context wich is different from sport. But if I use a short hook (but maybe this is my personal choice) I'm not using a martial technique. Why? Because the hook has the same short distance of an elbow, and this is is why in Thailand they prefer to elbow intead of hook punches at the short distance .. and as you can see, most of the martial arts do not have a short hook but they have horizontal elbow (to cut or break). Just let's imagine Okinawan Kata, for example (I can imagine Goju Ryu, because it specializes on the short distance, but applies to all Karate, in my opinion) or Wing Chun forms, or the most of eastern martial arts. In Wing Chun as far as I know now, we use the hook only in a specific situation .... but, as in some other arts like the Choi Lee Fut, there is the "swinging" punch, as in Muay Thai too, but it is not really a hook, which by definition is narrow (it must have the shape of a hook) ..
In all the arts of striking mentioned above, but muay thai, almost always knee techniques are less than in Muay Thai .. why? 
Let's step back: in fighting sports they propose (putting some rules, which can be changed also according to the techniques that are to exploit) to test, and to confront with an opponent on the practical skills acquired by the training (power, agility, speed) in almost total safeness.Why? Because the most dangerous shots (some of those mentioned above) are removed. Of course athletes (and remembering that to be sporty, is a mode of the person, and it doesn't depend only from what we do) can say that they can shot also fingerjabs into the eyes and kicks to the testicles.It's true, they can do it too, but it is completely different from saying that you practice a martial art mostly to hit those targets and then to build the capability and the dynamics to get it as needed, or to defend themselves from those not improvised dirty shots. This is the basic, and this changes everything, it changes the approach! Why?
Let's remain in the example of Muay Thai use of the knees. In Muay thai there are many ways to use them, all bio-mechanically correct .. but are not simple (maybe Bruce Lee wanted to say this?). Why? Because these techniques do not go directly to the purpose of the elimination of the opponent .. Think about it: on the mat climb professional fighters, mentally, psychologically, physically well prepared. Stronger peoples isn't it? 
Let's imagine how many times they hit the opponent's ribcage: it's very painful, even take your breath away, or who knows, broken ribs and lungs maybe can be damaged, who knows ...). But how many times would you be able to hit the opponent to the groin during the clinch phase, when you are not unbalanced from him?
Still remains true that there are two professionals facing one each other, the same weight too, probably two war machines with a well trained and resistent body. Well, shots that are possible in these competitions, the same weight and both contenders in good shape, it is anyway considered that the chances of not only die but also to be injured seriously are relatively limited, and in the worst of case you throw the towel. But in reality there are no weight categories, may not exist such as second chances, missing the referee and the towel ...
Then in the ring we see a tough game, where athletes have to be so good, to place these shots that are not so easy (I do not mean only the choice of a weak target to hit, but also the simple or difficult dynamics to achieve the targets) but however, being bio-mechanically correct, these shots have incredible power (often centrifugal spin force) ... but still bearable by well trained athletes. But there is no athlete, and any normal person as well, who can withstand some other shots, which are prohibited . In short, shots super violent but bearable by a trained body, otherwise the match would be censored as  event of public slaughter .. but in the forms of traditional arts, I said, the knee strikes in traditional Kata are often 3 kinds, you can imagine which ..
 Exist some video, in which professional fighters hit to the groin of unprotected people, as an experiment. Yuo can find this kind of thing in Youtube. In one of these clips, we can see Genki Sudo ( a realiable person) hitting at full power the groin of a specialist of an ancient technique, maybe from some mongolian ancient fighting art, father of Sumo, and the person doesn't recieve any injury!  The skill to retire the testicles can be very useful in not sporty contests..and from a certain point of view, to know how to do this can be more useful than the best of the round kick to the head, which maybe we can't deliver when we dress narrow pants and heavy boots! It is now obvious that to the easier and effective and pernicious attack that the opponent can do in the street, against the more unprotected part of your body, you can oppose the easiest thing (assuming that you can do it with speed) in order to defend (in a strange but nevertheless simple way) yourself. Incidentally I note that in a real streetfight, even a thay boxer would make in a desperate situation this kind of attacks to the groin (or maybe he can recieve this kind of attack from a not super trained person that is not interested in who has the more resistent trunk or jaw).
Moral of the story? Muay Thai as a sport is a tough game and training, teaches you the best biomechanics for any action, but is intended to play hard and not someone's death (of course I speak about the ring, rather than traditional Muay Thai) . However it is very gratifying for the ego of the practitioner being able to say "I have a super violent blow", just as it is for the person receiving the blow, " I survived a super violent blow. "

I take a parallel example: that of the Judo, before 1900. At the very beginning Judo was very different from what you see today ... the Judo course has changed as needed, going to Brazil, for example, where it took as you all know, the name of Gracie Judo, ops ... sorry, Gracie Ju Jutsu (but very young Koma started Judo under Jigoro Kano, as evidenced by a photo, and there is some reason for which we speak of Ju Jutsu, but for the purposes of our discussion is not interesting anyway). Judo then was modified for sporty purposes (not always positive, sometimes negative, in my opinion). But now you're wondering: this guy speaks me about judo, why?
Let's take a technical example: the Mata Leao (the technique to kill a lion), a choke from behind on the ground.This technique exists or not in Judo? Well, yes, there is (without resorting to the Brazilian Ju Jutsu or Ju Jutsu), but there is a ban on practicing in judo competitions, and this ban dates back to Kano and of course .. it was not the only correct action in judo competition (including biomechanics), but not usable in this tournment .. and why this? Because in terms of sporting ethics, Kano wanted to put (here I add a quite likely probably) highlighted a tightening system martial-based, in which it could roughly be possible to come out with proper technique, out of any situation, where the word defeat was not determined a priori and identifiable in some situations (I want to remember that this technique in itself is not dangerous and that there were, and there are, anyway, other forms of strangulation in Judo), and where, therefore, in essence, there was always game .. and where the controls on the ground does not prevent the disengagement opponents quickly to deal with other (legacy of the old Ju Jutsu used in conflictual situations). So we have to consider now, that "japanese wrestling" maybe is not the more proper and correct definition for Judo! The same Gokyo is meant for training purposes, for safeness, but it doesn't cover all the technical possibilities of Judo!

In short, when it's sport, it tends to facilitate by the rules (be it wrestling or striking) those situations from where you can go out, and then, the more the match lasts, the more likely the public, seeing or percieving potential continuous change in the fighting situation, has fun, and is avaliable to pay for attending these events.Or that,drawn by attending these exciting events, he (or she) also wants to learn the same techniques of his (her) heroes.
In general, I wonder if in some combat sports and martial arts, such variety of shots is not due to the fact that these shots are all born contemporary, but is to circumscribe to the fact that the simplest things are not trainable full power (too dangerous) with another person.But his thing may gradually degrade in a matiral spectacle (maybe bloody, nevetheless show). Is not a coincidence that the stars of fighting are full of fans, and sometimes fan boy (more or less conscious of being such), who then go to tell the classic martial artist that their technique does not work and invite them to prove in the ring (and thus to participate in the spectacle of the fight).

The opened (not for me) question is:
is it the same the martial art, and the martial event as a spectacle for public?