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| Topic: muay thai VS brazilian jujitsu | |
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personally I have no interest in fighting beyond defending myself in a bar or delivering a comeuppance to some ahole who desperately needs a azzkicking
I've had over 200 fights in my life and I lost almost all of em I'm 50 years old and have been smoking for near 40 years if I get in a fight it better end within 30 seconds and something to keep in mind, even when you win you get hurt |
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Go with Muay Thai, kickboxing has nothing to do with the other forms of striking...kickboxing is just hands and feet mainly. Muay Thai and Judo, and train...for a really, really long time before you enter a fight. Also, I'd work cardio heavily, but that would probably be integrated into your training with the martial arts. That's good, but remember what you are getting into. This isn't some simple martial arts competition where you swing batons and do flips, you can, and more then likely will get injured. I wanted to do MMA as well, but I don't want to be a champ like Ali, great fighter...at one time...but where is he now? Keep that in mind, and if you have the devotion, and the heart for it, have at it. I've known fighters that were top-notch in their respective art get one fight in an octagon and leave never to come back because the athletic commission told them they couldn't fight due to injury, be careful, it is a tough sport. Good luck. 
Probably be better to take one art for awhile, then switch to the other until you have an idea of what all it incorporates before taking both of them on. Keep in mind, there is more than one promotion, Strikeforce is popular for new fighters and Strikeforce gives the new fighters more publicity because they actually show the fights if they are in a top-notch show. There are a few others, but I don't know them off-hand...UFC isn't the only one, and it is debatable whether it is all that good in the first place. |
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I think the best thing to do would be to go to a reputable mma school. They will teach you every aspect of the mma game. Stand-up, wrestling/jui-jitsu, and conditioning. I currently study kenpo. Iwanted to do mma and also went to a ju-jitsu school. It was hard to do both.
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Always know some basic jiu-jitsu.
If you can't fight off your back you'll get smashed. |
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Always know some basic jiu-jitsu. If you can't fight off your back you'll get smashed. |
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Edited by
Cinderella75
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Mon 02/15/10 09:15 PM
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which is better, for a person planning to compete in mma? Brazilian jiu-jitsu looks pretty bad azz! |
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MMA school is the way to go right now. There are a lot of affordable gyms if you want to learn the entire gambit of fighting.
Judo can teach you balance and take-downs, which can be easily integrated into BJJ or classic jiu-jitsu, but without the right cardio and stand-up technique chances are you'll get continuously taken down by a good wrestler or someone with a grappling background. The coolest thing about muay thai is that it teaches you how to work from guard or in the clinch, where you can do a lot of damage. Honestly, it really depends what weight you want to fight at too. Heavier guys usually go for western boxing or traditional wrestling, which both take a lot of energy. If you're fighting lower than 170 it's really important to have a decent stand-up game if you plan to compete. |
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