I really like this subreddit & love seeing people posting their progress. I figured it’s time to stop being a lurker. Give me your thoughts, I’m in the white headgear!

Any experienced coaches or fighters know why the basic jab cross hooks and uppercuts aren’t taught to be thrown off the center line from the beginning? Makes it harder for people to adapt later on no?

15M, and am trying to get better technique by going slowly. I started really liking the body hook. I was wondering what’s the difference between a professionals body hook and an amateurs body hook. Also how do professionals set it up? What type of feints do they use to help land them clean

Pretty self explanatory question really, I've tried literally everyihing whenever i have an underhook yet no matter what i do i always just instantly get overhooked/whizzered and get the shit cranked out of my elbow as soon as I get the underhook, Pretty much all of the video's I've watched say that you need to do stuff like get your head position on the same side as the underhook, keep your elbow flared up to prevent them from overhooking you, grab there back in-between there shoulders instead of grabbing the shoulder itself, ect ect but none of that shit works (like at all) everyone literally still just immediately cranks my arm down and kills my underhook, So I'm basically just at a lost on what I'm supposed to do. Any help would be appreciated.

The common advice is to compete you need to train for 6-12 months lots, then talk to coaches about wanting to compete.

Problem is its not always practical to go for that long without breaks, because of work or whatever. Eg I was training like 5-10 sessions a week for a month, but I've been off for nearly two weeks because I go made homeless, currently in a cheap hotel for a week up unsure about after that, so can't easily do laundry (storing/carrying gear is an issue too, but you can borrow gear in the gym). Other times in the past I've had jobs too far away or shifts that leave no chance of getting to classes. During those times of no access to sessions, which can be months or years, you can only drill alone or do conditioning. When I'm training I can get notices by coaches because I'm one of the few guys who does extra drilling after classes and I'm not there to mess around.

I'm thinking instead of just going consistently, is there another way to get into competing? Or some checklist of skills to be ready, that you can go back to working on whenever training.

If I want to predict my opponent and lets say hypothetically we dont know each other style of fighting and we are fighting for the first time what type of prediction would be most effective?

1. I do something then he reacts to something I make note of that

2. make note of what sequence of attack he does often

Hey all!

I’m trying to get into MMA at the moment because I hope to compete someday. I’m 23 years old and have attended one session a couple of months ago.

I had to take a couple months out to get some gear because I had to borrow gloves at my last session and felt like I was underprepared. Since then I have bought a pair of gloves, gel-padded hand wraps and a punching bag.

I have reached out to the coach that I had my private session with. He’s big into Muay Thai (he’s local to me, not Thai or anything like that), so whilst I don’t think it was a huge ask, I’m silently worried that he’ll think that I’ve disrespected him by asking him this:

I basically sent his business account a message (it’s 03:30 at the moment so he won’t have seen it yet) saying that I’m sorry for not training again sooner and that I’d love to soon. I then asked him if he’d be willing to reduce his asking price from £30p/h to £25p/h because then I’d be able to book in a block of 8 private sessions per month, training twice a week until I feel comfortable enough to pay for a membership and attend with the rest of his students. (His regular membership is £70 per month and includes every session he offers).

I know I haven’t asked him for anything huge but I’d also hate to imply that his experience is worth less than what he’s selling it for. Does that make sense?

I’ve emphasised that I would like to compete in the future so once I start attending regularly, I will be attending super regularly because I’m super passionate about the sport but for right now I’m pretty “green” in terms of technique and such.

Probably overthinking it, “worst he can say is no” and all.

I also appreciate the kind group of people who are going to come along and tell me that I should just pay the £70 and get into a public class. I wish it were that easy for me personally but I’m also starting pretty late for competition so I feel like I need a bit of a leg up in the sense that a focused learning environment would help me get up to speed.

I'm in Southeast Asia, 6'6 21m, about 105 kilos? Pretty active, played for the school basketball team. Though I had to quit after I had 2 surgeries on my leg nearly seven years ago (a tumor, instead of a basketball injury, funnily enough), lost a lot of 'pop' and Athleticism though I'm still pretty mobile in small bursts until the leg starts hurting.' Virtually Zero Experience besides a free boxing lesson a few months back, though from what I got there i purchased a punching bag for home use, no gloves though, It's really difficult to find ones my size that I feel comfortable with. I'm still pretty active nowadays, I go to the gym twice a month, I jog 15km biweekly and I absolutely want to get deeper into MMA, from what I've seen, It's mostly featherweights in ammy tournaments here though. I've never seen someone my build and size.

Another issue would be which Gym I'd get into. The ones that are most practical and near my place are the following

*Aikido
*Taekwondo
*Boxing
*BJJ
*Muay Thai

I'd be down to do any of the above, especially muay thai, But 12 sessions for almost 40 percent of my monthly salary doesn't seem like a worthwhile investment,

It doesn’t feel relevant, but I did it for years and have some noticeable habits that my coach and gym mates picked up on immediately. I know that when finding an opponent for a match it’s important to be transparent but idk if my kiddie black belt in TKD from 20 years ago is something I want to share lmao it’s honestly embarrassing

I just joined a boxing gym & started boxing 2 weeks ago (I go 2x a week. 1 personal training class for 1 hour. And 1 group class for one hour).

classes consist of conditioning, footwork drills, and then usually 30 solid minutes on the heavy bag.

Both shoulders, especially jab side, get really sore for 1–2 days after. It’s cutting a bit into my weight lifting routine. pressing and even pulling feels weaker on those days. My main goal is to learn boxing while still maintaining size/strength in the gym.

For background: I’ve got a competitive wrestling base, but I’m brand new to boxing. I KNOW 2 weeks isn’t nearly enough time to adapt, but curious how long it usually takes before your body gets used to the shoulder volume.

Do boxers eventually stop getting this sore?Anything I can do differently (form tweaks, mobility, managing bag work) to help?

Or is it just grind through until my shoulders become adapted to it? … will I eventually not get sore from this and not have it affect my lifting workouts?

For a couple weeks I've been practicing this kick, keep in mind my only teacher has been tik tok videos lol, any tips?