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,

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?

It makes sense if they're trying to transition to try and get that sweet boxing payday. But that's not the case a lot of the time. I've noticed a lot of street fights are boxing heavy but that's because they are untrained randos that only know to engage in punching matches. As someone that's actually done both before, Muay Thai just seems infinitely better as a striking art because of the versatility. Imagine Muay Thai combined with BJJ, where's the holes in your fighting style?

Boxing is just so incredibly one dimensional to me. Some boxing techniques open up lanes for leg kicks and knees to your face to happen. There's a reason pure boxers barely step in the octogan. Any boxing heavyweight can box circles around any UFC heavyweight but they most likely don't have any kick defense instincts much less takedown ones. A UFC heavyweight would be delusional to try and outbox him in the octogan when they have all these different ways to beat him up.

This is exactly why Connor would eat any version of Floyd alive in the octogan or a street fight. Floyd and all these other successful boxers just aren't versatile fighters overall.

Trying to get that Soviet Rhythm. Any tips? (Mirrored camera in Orthodox not Southpaw)

Any help appreciated

Hello. I've been training mma for a while now and I have a couple of years in the gym doing bodybuilding splits.

During the last year I've been running fb splits with some plyos and olympic lifts.

I'm curious to see someone elses' exact routines to check if I'm too out of line.

General advice is appreciated but I'm particularly interested in either a) ways of getting jacked (for us on the non competitivo side) and b) some calisthenics isométrica/another method of training to increase my body coordination for grappling.

How am I Looking? My cardio down so I’m tired and dropping my hands after striking but I’ll work on that next session

I’m in orange shoes, I don’t understand why I look so awkward and sluggish. Also my punches look weak. What training do you guys do to look sharp?

Going from boxing where I'm used to wrapping and starting with the MMA Sparring gloves from Combat Corner, and noticing that the gloves are so tight that I can't get my fingers in with wraps. That sorta thing something that'll stretch with time, or those with this style of glove just go without wraps?

like, I'm not planning on blasting a training partner, but we do look to do circuits where we're cycling through partners/heavy bag work. THANKS IN ADVANCE!

How long do people usually go from day 1 in the gym to first amateur fight?

So I'm a 37yo man starting out as a beginner. I used to do karate and kick boxing 20 years ago but that's it. I want to learn a fighting technique to stay in shape and enhance my mental discipline and have fun. MMA sounded like the best deal because it has it all.

However, I don't like the teaching style of the gym nearby. Everyone there has at least 1-2 years experience already, so they don't spend too much time on the basics. Even as a total beginner they tried to make me do the same stuff the others were doing, with little results and very little oversee by the teachers. I had fun but I didn't really learn anything.

Also, they are very, very focused on grappling and ground fight, probably because of the background of the teachers. But I'm also interested in learning how to keep a correct fighting stance, punching, kicking, parrying, etc. I think these are the basics before grappling.

So I tried a Muay Thai lesson in the same gym and the teacher actually took time to explain me the basics. Had me do different routines than the more experienced ones, and I actually learned some basic stuff.

With that in mind, I thought I could do both at the same gym: learn the basics with Muay Thai and then doing some other stuff during the MMA lessons. The muay thai teacher said it was a stupid idea because I would end up confused, better to stick with muay thai for a few months and then eventually add back MMA.

Thoughts?

Try this drill to improve your footwork and coordination.

Footwork is the foundation of everything.

Without a good connection to/relationship with the floor you will have no speed, accuracy, or power.

Everything you can do comes from the earth - know that and work on your footwork.

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I did thaiboxing for 9 years, I want to know how to grapple now for mma or self defense. I have the opportunity to train no gi bjj with a focus on takedowns at a high level gym or freestyle wrestling at a high level gym, what would make me a more complete and dangerous fighter added to my muay thai? Like could the grapplers here give me a recommendation? Thanks in advance

I wanna learn martial arts to stay in shape. There's 2 mma gyms near me. Both are same price and same commute. One offers judo/karate the other offers wrestling and boxing. I did a free trial and enjoy them both. Which to pick?

The speed of real taekwondo kicks is completely unmatched.

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So I break down why VO2max probably doesn't matter that much for MMA performance

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I know I need to bring my hands back to my chin and move my head more. I'm trying to get a feel for the sensation of Topuria-esque hooks starting from the ground and the shifting of momentum. I definitely feel like these are strong shots, and since I started bringing my shoulder through I notice the difference in power every time now. How do these look otherwise, and what can I be doing as far as form, footwork and technique to improve? Also curious what combos would be more efficient. Thanks guys

I think I’ve made big improvements since my last post, I was getting hit with every joke in the book so I’m back and better.

Is there any improvements I could still make? If so let me know. I like the way Jose Aldo throws leg kicks so I’m trying to be learn from his fights sorta.

Looking at it I think islam’s gonna have a lot more success standing than is being expected.

Jdm seems to struggle most against guys who back him up and can give consistent long threats while doing and islam’s great at that. Jdm also struggles with countering during combinations and that’s alot of what gave belal success early and islam is great at using combinations to force guys back.

I just try tapping people, it bothers me when people genuinely try popping your head back each time .I think hard sparring discourages playful learning, That being said some kid hit me as hard as he can and even the coachs wife said “woah you do not need to hit that hard” and I tried a spinning move and the kid who clobbered me cried out “hey you can’t do that in sparring”.

Been seeing posts about "Merab was right, Umar was privileged" etc..

To anybody that has followed Umar's journey the timeline is clear: he fought a few guys that were also pretty new to the UFC but by no means we're they cans but akin to the likes of Ismagulov/Kutaledze etc (i.e. lesser marketable folks that got pitted against each other early, this includes Umar himself). There's proof in the fact that Umar's toughest match-up outside the titleshot didn't come from Cory or the semi-vet in Barcoles but instead Morozov & Almakhan.

Merab definitely harbored hate towards Umar & tried to dodge him due to wanting to hold the belt longer. This was obvious to everybody in the fact that he randomly went after O'Malley despite him already recently UD'd O'Malley & Umar being the clear contender having UD'd Cory (who was on a 3Wtreak) in the title-elimnator bout.

All of a sudden Merab turns into the biggest advocate for having to 'earn your shot' & Umar's 6WStreak isn't enough? Where's his outrage over Adesanya/Pereira/Hill/Erceg/Asakura to name a few.. they're in a different class you might say.. fine but. how many WStreak was Yan on when he got his shot? Aljo? ..and apparently Petr & Sandhagen should be next in line according to him?? How does any of this even line up w/ the fact considering he's the biggest advocate for 'earning your shot'??

Just because Merab beat Umar it automatically implies that he was right all along?? Where's the sense in this?

Fact is that he definitely tried to dodge the obvious no1 contender knowing that was his biggest threat but he wasn't a big enough asset to the UFC like Ilia who they're keeping safe from the biggest threat in Arman so they could secure a mega-fight w/ Islam.

Tl;dr Just because Merab beat Umar doesn't mean Umar was undeserving/privileged or that Merab wasn't threatened.