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Is American top team the best mixed martial arts team in the world? Would training there make a mma fighter better? Is it better then American kick boxing academy? submitted by /u/Active-Zebra9707 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

My kid has a BJJ tournament coming up soon. It's points based, and his only previous competition experience was submission only. Wondering if any advice about strategies specific to points competitions - I don't do BJJ myself and the coach tends to emphasize working to submissions. Also, he is near the bottom of his weight class, wondering if kids at that age (8 yrs) typically cut weight to move down a class or not. EDIT: to clarify, I would not have my kid cut weight as I think it is unhealthy to do so for a growing child. I'm just wondering if it's common and if he will be likely to face a ..read more

Love the instructor I have but not thrilled about a lot. Curious what other PMAs do for black belt testing. Ours (adult) is a fitness test, then three three hour tests for kickboxing, self defense, then weapons and fighting. The last part is three consecutive days, two eight hour and one 6 hour, of what I undersrand is just clueless civilian fantasy about military basic training. Basically just running you through drills and exercises to see if you quit. Seems pointless and kind of stupid but going to shrug my shoulders and do it anyway....just wondering if this is a local thing to my area's ..read more

New to this sub. I want to learn martial arts again. I used to do taekwondo before but that was like more than 20 years ago lol. So I'd be a noob now. I have the following questions: I'm thinking as to what martial art should I learn this time. I want to go for a more offensive martial art should a situation come where I need to defend myself. Should I do taekwondo again? Maybe Muay Thai? Kick boxing? Any suggestions please? Any martial arts center recommendation? In CBD or western suburbs. With your answer to my first question, can you recommend some home workout videos on youtube? Let's sa ..read more

This question occurred to me while watching older MMA and K1 fights featuring roided out fighters like Bob Sapp, with monstruous size and strength, but little skill and even less cardio. Despite these glaring weaknesses, Sapp was a legitimate threat even to the best fighters of that period, until he stopped taking winning seriously. If a similarly massive, anabolic steroid-enhanced competitive weightlifter in early 20s with no prior combat training wanted to start fighting, which martial art or combat sport would be best suited to their physical advantages, while minimizing unavoidable drawba ..read more

I want to cancel my membership after a month at my mma gym due to lack of time and interest. And they said that I am hooked to a year contract which they never told me or explained when I signed up. They said if I want to quit and cancel now then they will charge you a 33% cancellation fee of the remaining time left on the year contract. And would lying about going to a different city or state help me cancel it for free? Because they said if you talk with them about moving to a place 50 or more miles away then they cancel it for free. Not sure what to think about this, any thoughts? submitte ..read more

What are the main/more effective closed stance attacks. I like fighting southpaw and find the rear leg attacks (body/head kick, teep) and power punch with outside foot position to be the most effective. However in closed stance I only really find the rear leg kick, my hands seem to be too obstructed to land anything good without getting easily countered. What are some more effective closed stance attacks I can practice submitted by /u/Shlodini [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

So we always see posts about what techniques aren’t applicable to mma and/or real fighting. I want to know what techniques actually worked better for you in mma than in the original style/sport you learned then from. I have 2 big ones. Osotogari: I could never get this throw in judo. But it became one of my main takedowns/throws in mma. I would either do a side stance matching my opponents stance (southpaw if they were southpaw) and counter their roundhouse kick by stepping in or hit it off a punch combo that ended with a hook to the body. The lateral drop: Another throw I could almost ne ..read more