Very cool

[muscledog95]

Glad to see a MA board connected to the elitefitness site. Hope we get some discussion started. Guess I could start.

1. Why did u start training in your respected art?

2. Aside from the obvious answer (more practice). What other things have u done that has really inhanced your sparring abilities

Any takers?

GOD BLESS

 

[nick338]

yea shure. i started when i was 10 and i got in it b/c i thought that it would be realy cool and it has not stoped being fun yet.
I try to work on my kicks alot that seems to be a realy big thing for me in sparing i use my legs alot. small bags help for focus and speed big bags help with power.

 

[super_rice]

very very cool indeed. i'm into judo and it's great. although since i've taken up training a bit more seriously now, the two are conflicting

 

[Maverick]

I have took Karate 4 years
Kung Fu 1 year
Boxing 5 years
Grappling/JiJitsu/MMA ongoing

Blending everything together......... Have not worked much kicks though.

 

[danielson]

kung fu for 3-4 years (stopped for the moment due it going a bit mcdojo and lack of time/money)

kickboxing for 2 years (mix of thai, JKD, and Kali emtpy hands)

kali (stick and knife fighting) for 2 years...im senior level in that now, but only on the first rung of the ladder



kali has definately let me see stuf and react quicker..i haven;t sparred enough emptyhands because of time (I am a very busy person with my life!), and crucially it has worked in defense/attack with weapons which kungfu hasnt

 

[Big Rick Rock]

I did karate as a kid for 2 years, wrestled Frestlye,Greco Roma and Folkstyle all thru jr High and High School, I boxed for a couple of years. Did some Kick boxing, and submission wrestling for a while. I took a couple of years off from training, Now I'm going to one of the Gracie academies, I went there originally to train in BJJ, but found this 65yrl Asian dude who is a Muay Thai master, I like his teaching style and knowledge, plus he is in better shape than most people in their 30's. I have seriously fallen in love with Muay Thai, I train 3 times per week and do work at home. It has changed all of my fitness goals I don’t really care to about being huge anymore. My plans are to drop about 30 lbs over the next few months and compete at a weigh class than would make sense for my height. At my current weight the guys in my weight class have a ridiculous reach advantage on me and I have to take too many hits before I can get inside and do some damage.

 

[danielson]

I did karate as a kid for 2 years, wrestled Frestlye,Greco Roma and Folkstyle all thru jr High and High School, I boxed for a couple of years. Did some Kick boxing, and submission wrestling for a while. I took a couple of years off from training, Now I'm going to one of the Gracie academies, I went there originally to train in BJJ, but found this 65yrl Asian dude who is a Muay Thai master, I like his teaching style and knowledge, plus he is in better shape than most people in their 30's. I have seriously fallen in love with Muay Thai, I train 3 times per week and do work at home. It has changed all of my fitness goals I don’t really care to about being huge anymore. My plans are to drop about 30 lbs over the next few months and compete at a weigh class than would make sense for my height. At my current weight the guys in my weight class have a ridiculous reach advantage on me and I have to take too many hits before I can get inside and do some damage.

how useful did you find the wrestling when up against the BJJ dudes...i really wanna do it but am struggling for time

i've abandoned my size dreams and am focusing on speed and power now too...i dropped something like 1/2 a stone from my normal weight

 

[Big Rick Rock]

how useful did you find the wrestling when up against the BJJ dudes...i really wanna do it but am struggling for time

i've abandoned my size dreams and am focusing on speed and power now too...i dropped something like 1/2 a stone from my normal weight

I'm much better on my feet than most Bjj guys, shots take downs and throws are the bread an butter of Freestyle and Greco Roman. I don't think it gives me an advange over them, rather it helped me to learn stuff quicker since a lot of Bjj moves are very simililar to stuff I had already seen in wrestling(front headlock series and counters)

One thing that I had a hard time getting use to was being on my back... In wrestling being on your back is death, you have a natural reaction to flip to your belly as soon as you are being put to your back.... Bjj guys live on their back, and trying to go to go belly down against a Bjj guy is a sure way to get choked out. That was the biggest change for me.
It took a while to get over the phobia of being on my back that I had developed over the many years of wrestling.

 

[danielson]

cool...i;ve done groundwork based on BJJ/judo but only briefly...i need a class to expand on my groundwork but no BJJ places in range, wrestling sounds like the ticket!

 

[Babyfaced Assassin]

Semi Pro Muay Thai fighter here

been kick and thai boxing for almost 6 years

am 4-2-0

Trained in Thailand and am going back this weekend actually