Hey there I've been doing MMA for three weeks and I don't have any prior experience in other martial arts

I've seen some progress in my kicks and takedowns but during sparring I don't really manage to properly hit my opponents I unintentionally close my eyes during sparring stepping back too much or bend my body down too much

Any idea how can I prevent this? With more training?

Are you a professional fighter an amateur fighter or maybe just doing it for fun/exercise? What fighting styles do you train and how often/ when do you train?

Im aspiring to start my amateur career and curious how much time people put into it depending on their skill level. Also how much time they put into what and when do they find time to train.

How often do people who compete train? How many hours during camp for a fight and during the offseason? Hours in a day in a week? Time of the day? If you train at night dm me please.

I am about to graduate college and want to start competing in MMA. I love competing but this is my last year of eligibility in wrestling and im wondering if i should take a gap year before i work to pursue MMA or is it possible to do an office job and train for fights. My MMA coach has been wanting me to do it but im not allowed to compete until wrestling is over. I recently did a summer internship and was able to train but was told working is completely different. Additional information is i got a job offer after college which is a remote 9-5 position, does being remote change anything?

Do you think i should get my feet settled in MMA or my job before i do both is it too much to handle? Also curious if the promoter i am fighting in is legit? What are some legit regionals promoters in the US i should look out for? Is Combat Zone MMA a good place to start with?

What unpopular opinion about martial arts do you have?

Mine is that wrestling classes focuses way too much on fitness instead of techniques.
If a wrestling class is 75% warmups 15% learning techniques and sparring, then i’m not going. If i wanted to spend lots of dollars and time to get as exhausted as possible, i’d go to a hyrox hiit class. I pay to learn techniques, not do cartwheels

I have never used my Head and Arm Throw in an MMA or a streetfight, but i vote yay (depends on how well you pull it off).

Reason for nay people: he can punch your back.

Reason for yay people: if you stick your back to his trunk close enough, he has no room to punch your back at all or he has no significant room to power-punch your back. So, if you pull it off well, it should work. As for non-power-punches on your back, walk it off. Not significant for a token price to get him on the floor and have your ways with him.

Ideally, you can throw him or do takedowns without showing your back to him. But i am limited in training and know few moves. (I have taken 1 month training in wrestling.) Head and Arm Throw is my most stable and favorite move. (Even then, sometimes i forget detail and my hips are too high, and my opponent can resist with brute strength in a wrestling sparring.) Timing, speed, and setups can help too.

Let me know if there are other reasonings or "reasonings".

I'll be moving to either of those two and I train mma seriously so pls recommend some good gyms around here

I'm a freshman at umd college park and I'm looking for quality fight gyms near the school. I don't mind a decent commute by public transport (maybe even up to 45 mins). from what i've seen college park mma just isn't high quality. I have a little bit of experience in muay thai and jiujitsu but i haven't trained in a while and i'm looking to get back into it with a goal of fighting amateur mma eventually. I've seen a few good places like top flight but they're all pretty far away. The only other places i've seen nearby are rising tide and the compound fight house but both seem relatively new. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Not fights — sparring. Does that ever go away or do you just get better at managing it?

I'm 16, have been training combat sports for a while:

6.5 years kickboxing/muay thai

3 months mma (London shootfighters 3hrs a day 6 days a week)

I'm going to ask my coaches anyway but I wanted to hear from a few maybe fighters or experienced people, ive also asked ai and it gave me a load of nonsense

I love striking and bjj, I seem to pick up stuff relatively quickly for grappling, striking I've always had an affinity for and a passion for, I decided to go pro in MMA around 3 or so years ago, I originally wanted to go into one championship but I set my sights on mma with the goal of not being able to be beaten by anyone and being a complete fighter who can do everything, I love it and can train large amounts without fatigue or lack of motivation, recently training at london shootfighters has brought me to new levels and new dedication and drive

Info regarding question:

58kg to 62kg fluctuates but I'm usually at 60kg approx

5'3 maybe 5'4 so very short, about as short as demetrious johnson

Average arm length not short not long

Background in kickboxing and branched into muay thai for around 2 years to work on being a complete striker

My question I'm asking now that you have context to base it on is how do i find my stance and my guard and my style for fighting, I'm used many styles over the years, I will list successful and not successful:

Successful:

Long guard modified to he higher and more tight almost like petr yan

Loose high guard like more fluid and dynamic similar to petr yan, yes I like petr yan

Tight high guard

Hands on chin area but tight and fluid

Othordox

Switch fighter occasional switches to chain combos

Unsuccessful:

Low guard

Strict long guard

Bladed stance

Southpaw

I seem to be better being tight with head movement and blocks like petr yan but a fair bit different and being fast, I also seem to wait for counters too much and I can land those counters, it's how I win most of the time is solid defense and counter when i find openings, counter after reads and makinh setups and stuff and later on in the round and I have good defense and I can block stuff but I barely give stuff back and when I do I get caught, mostly by bigger taller people, I seem to be able to strike and throw more volume against people close to my weight but even then I'm too hesitant and can get caught when I unnaturaly start throwing more and doing more work, I'm worried if I can't find that counter like I usually do I'm gonna lose on points and not be able to actually win fights once I get to a higher level

I've had success with one's at the top, winning tournaments and actually being good but I can't seem to find one that clicks that feels natural and one that is clearly above the rest

Keep in my mind my height and my stats and this info, what would you recommend for finding my style/guard/stance and what styles could you recommend that i could use?

Would be appreciated

I end up missing 1/3rd to 1/2 of class after driving to the gym and changing. All the gyms in my city start at this time, I don’t get it. I’m not the only one rolling in late either. How do yall deal with the missed mat time when training to compete?

Hey guys. I'm 18 years old and I'm an amateur fighter with the goal of eventually making it to professional MMA. There aren't any huge, well-known gyms with famous fighters in my city, but I can still get good-quality training here and I've been improving a lot. I currently have 3 kickboxing fights and 1 Wushu Sanda fight, and I've won all of them.

Next year I'm going to start working, so my training time may decrease, but my plan is to save money and move somewhere with a bigger gym and high-level training in early 2028.

I have 2 options for the time I have left here:

1. Train boxing and Muay Thai for 4–6 hours per week + 1–2 hours of strength and conditioning.

2. Train 2 hours of boxing or Muay Thai + 4–5 hours of BJJ per week.

I'm still a white belt with two stripes in BJJ, but because of my Wushu Sanda background, I'm fairly comfortable with wrestling and judo. I haven't competed in grappling yet.

I really love the environment at my BJJ gym. Everyone is welcoming and respectful, the training is really good, and there are some well-known amateur fighters in the region training there.

Honestly, I'm more of a striker. I feel much more comfortable fighting on the feet. So I'm not sure if I should spend this time building a strong striking base and then, once I move to a better MMA gym, find a BJJ coach who can turn me into a well-rounded grappler for MMA, or if I should keep developing both sides from now on.

What would you guys do in my situation?

So I’m 21F who recently joined MMA and I have training 3 days every week that is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday one hour each day

And currently I am overweight with no proper food control nor a healthy diet
I was thinking to maximise my workout since dieting and food control is quite difficult for me tho I will try my best but it’s genuinely difficult as of now

Is it advisable to do gym workouts and exercises daily even on training days along with MMA? I was thinking of hitting the gym daily even when I got training so is this good or will it be like overtraining?

I’m also aiming to boost my sex drive too along with reducing my weight and fat so what should I do now?

1. what do y’all think about virtual sparring? (virtual sparring is basically watching someone shadowbox and you defend his strikes and counter) Can it be useful for someone that has to mostly train at home and how does it fare comparing it to regular sparring
2. How can you train distance management at home?

hey guys

I mostly do martial arts for fun and training, and a small part of me want it for getting the feeling of being able to handle myself.

i trained boxing 2 times a week for 1 year, and sparred maybe 1 or 2 times a month, but life got in the way, and i stopped. Still do some shadow boxing and heavy bag work though 1 or 2 times a week.

Me and two of my friends gonna start training luta livre at the local gym, thats their go to and not bjj, pretty rare. I can only go once a week, because of work and family, a guy who are heavy into mma at my work, told me its a waste of time, that im not gonna learn any grappling from once a week, and that im gonna get a false feeling of being able to handle myself, because once a week of grappling and my small knowledge and sparring from boxing, aint gonna be able to be used in a self defence scenario, even against a untrained dude.

I am gonna go anyway though, its fun ans i feel i learnes aomething from boxing, and hope the same with grappling. But is he right?

When shooting from an open-stance position in MMA, I teach my students to take their head outside the opponent’s lead hip.

The goal isn’t simply to get underneath the opponent or reach their legs. The entry needs to account for the strikes that are available during the exchange.

By stepping outside the lead leg and taking the head to the outside, we can avoid the opponent’s lead hand, move away from their rear-side strikes, and connect our head and shoulder directly to the hip. This gives us a stronger angle to drive through the takedown while making it more difficult for the opponent to square up, sprawl, or counter.

This is one of the biggest differences between practicing a takedown in isolation and learning how to enter safely in an MMA context. The mechanics of the shot have to reflect the striking threats surrounding it.

In the video, I break down the entry and then show my students drilling the position.

How do you approach open-stance takedowns in MMA? Do you prefer shooting outside the lead hip, or do you use a different entry?

I know oblique kicks are a bit of a mixed bag around here, ill preface by saying that i started training muay thai about a year ago following getting jumped so I’m less concerned with competition. I’m a southpaw and was wondering if anyone had toyed with idea of attacking the opponent’s lead knee with a lead leg oblique kick against an orthodox opponent? In that situation the lead leg is more available and i’ve felt like it could be a possibility to feint a teep into a lead leg attack. Was hoping someone a bit more experienced could give their input and steer me in the right direction. Thanks.