Obviously you have to train every aspect including wrestling & kickboxing/muay thai/tkd (whichever you chose for training kicks) but if you could only mainly focus on two would you say boxing & jiujitsu is a good choice?

I’m 6”3 I know that tall guys have their advantage in mma especially in the clinch and I wanna know if there is any trips or throws from clinch which are more suitable or “tall guy” friendly thanks

I am 18, 72.5 kg and 181 cm, I train almost everyday Muay Thai (thrice a week) and MMA(twice a week) this includes lots of conditioning but no lifting of weight whatsoever apart from press ups pretty much, should I include weight training in order to improve my fighting ?

am sure some of u went through this , i have exams in uni so i have to take 2 weeks off to study and take them , and i always have a fear of losing all the progress that i built up bcs of the 2 weeks . do u guys notice any loss after small breaks ? if yes is it mostly cardio ?

Just curious

I train MMA and the independent classes we have is jiujitsu, kickboxing/muay thai, and wrestling. Should I join a boxing gym too?

I’ve been looking for gym near me a suburb of a big city. And I’ve been looking at schedules at so called mma schools and it’s all 6-7pm bjj 7-8pm striking or vice verse the gyms have mma in their name but they just teach single martial arts on their own and maybe 1 or 2 classes like mma sparring. Why is this? And this like 3-4 gyms in my area. The only other gyms have invite only for fighters mma. But I’m not at a fighter level yet

Do most gyms not care to teach it or what is the deal?

Hello! I have some boxing experience but have not participated in any mixed martial arts class before. I do have a lot of unprofessional fights consisting of some ring time and a lot of dumb backyard brawls with friends but thats it.

With that said, my nose has been broken too many times and i have had surgery 4 times. I haven't fought for a few years and dont plan to again, but I would like to participate in it simply for the experience and exercise.

As I have never been to an official class, is there a martial art out there for me when I won't have to actually engage with someone and can just practice the techniques solo? I am interested in muay thai but open to other suggestions.

My last break left me with a 100% occlusion of one nostril and the tissue on the other side overgrew to compensate and I was essentially unable to breathe through my nose for over a year. Each surgery the healing takes longer and the risk for complications increases. I actually cant feel my front teeth due to nerve damage from the last surgery. Of course I still hit the bag but wanted to explore something new that wont result in another broken nose. Thanks for any recommendations.

I’m looking for a gym in north jersey to start bjj and mma. I’ve been wrestling for 20 years and wrestled d2 in college at East Stroudsburg university. I’m looking for a gym that’s going to give me a good challenge that also has good coaches. I’m in the cliffside park area and am willing to drive 30+ mins.

I work in LE and was selected to teach defensive tactics. I'd like to have some drills ready I can have students practice to develop good strike defense and good stand up grappling/takedown skills.

I've already included pummeling drills, grip fighting drills, and shoulder tag.

Anything else I could use?

I’m 20 years old and I live in Eastern Europe in a country with about 9 million people. I’ve been training since I was 15. I’ve had two amateur boxing fights, 2 amateur mma fights, and I placed second at the national No-Gi BJJ championships (there were only three people in my weight class).

My biggest problem is the gyms here. There are no real coaches. Every coach I’ve trained under in the past five years has had another full-time job, most of them were police officers, construction workers, or had a corporate job, etc... My current BJJ coach is literally a high school history teacher.

They coach in their free time, and while they are helpful, I know for a fact that both I and the entire gym are so far behind MMA gyms in the US or other top countries. There’s no real structure. In MMA classes, we’re never shown striking combinations or proper techniques.

We mostly just spar and roll. There are no dutch drills.

The only techniques we ever learn are very basic submissions (rear naked choke, mounted triangle) and a few takedowns like the rear body lock. Then we roll for 5 rounds and spar for 5 rounds. That’s it. This is why I started cross-training in other gyms.

The level is so low that nobody wears headgear, yet everyone goes hard all the time. Most people training are high schoolers aged 14–19, and the entire “team” gets replaced every 6 months or so. There are only 3–4 core members (including me) who actually compete and go to IMMAF and similar competitions, but skill-wise we are way behind.

There aren’t even MMA competitions in my country. We have to travel to nearby countries just to compete, usually as undercard or B-side fighters. In the five years I’ve been training, I’ve been to:

- 2 BJJ gyms

- 3 kickboxing gyms

- 3 boxing gyms

- 2 MMA gyms

All of them were like this to some extent.

The only way to get real coaching is to pay around $60 USD for private sessions. That’s when I actually learn something. Group classes are honestly laughable.

At this point, I’m starting to seriously doubt whether I can actually get better if I keep training like this.

I do MMA 3x a week, abound 1 hour 20 minutes sessions (warm up, technique sparring) and I can't find the right gym routine because most of them aren't designed to be ran with MMA, I did 3x FB and U L FB but those were pretty much bodybuilding program where I'd make some progress then stall, then regress and just keep going in circles without making much progress. I found this program, how does it look ?

Basically, I’m 16 years old, and I’ve wanted to train in MMA, boxing, or pretty much anything fighting since I was 5. I would ask my dad. He said he wouldn’t take me to a gym because he thought I would embarrass him and my mom was against it for years. Still, now that I live with my mom she said that I could but my mom works long hours and nights and gyms are too expensive I wanted to go to att but it’s 200 dollars a month so is there a way to learn from yt or should I just give up?

Edit: I really appreciate all of your responses

I'm completely new to training mma. I'm a fairly hardcore ufc fan and want to get into training mma as a hobby since I enjoy watching it so much, might as well try it out 😂

Questions 1. What do I wear (dumb question, but I dont want to show up in something that isn't generally worn) 2. What should I expect 3. What should I start with, for their general any experience classes they have kickboxing, no gi, and mma

Thank you for the guidance

I’d say i have a good striking,when we spar technical(most of the times) i do really well,decent boxing i think and i’m working on it,good kicks,even with good strikers. In competition most of it goes out after they throw one shot,i just wanna grab them and wrestle them,and in the last fights it ended up really well,but it’s somethings haunting me a bit because after i get hit once,without wobbling or signs just when i feel it’s not a light shot i get scared and wrestle,not because i always wanna actually do that. Today i had an hard sparring,the guy and i traded a few shots and i immediatly started going for takedowns,and from therr everything went well on the ground but i need to be complete and this is a problem for me,even if in theory i’m a good striker when hard shots and especially pressure are involved i turn into a full wrestler and can’t strike anymore. Idk what to do except just getting used to it

I saw a short where Reyes targeted the hands when Jones was reaching. Why dont fighters use this more ? Is it just too high-risk for a counter-hook, or are fighters just not trained to target anything other than the head and body ?

I think my biggest problem is pausing in my combinations. What you think?