How you holding up bros? I can feel my conditioning getting worse, I haven't been able to run because of a knee injury and I obviously can't train/spar at the gym right now
Not being able to box fucking sucks
How you holding up bros? I can feel my conditioning getting worse, I haven't been able to run because of a knee injury and I obviously can't train/spar at the gym right now
Not being able to box fucking sucks
gonna beat up on newbies and take out some of all this buit up energy on them when the gym reopens. you?
Try Shadow boxing you retard
I got my home gym (punching bag, weights, pull up bar, and dip station) and the track at the park to keep me busy
I was surprised how much everything costs now. I had bought everything previously, like years ago one by one. I'm pretty sure I got my punching bag for like $180 when it's $280 now. I got my cage for like $150 it's like $300 now. I got my dip station for $63.
Hardly a workout unless I do it for like 30 rounds, and my knee still hurts.
Any advice on balancing weight training with martial arts?
Train in your martial art more days than you lift, and incorporate dumbbells/kettlebells and calisthenics exercises to build endurance and explosiveness. You don't need to break PRs on bench and deadlift, just be able to do a decent amount more than your bodyweight. Plenty of good routines for MMA and boxing online if you take a quick look
Any advice for a non-grappler dealing with a judo GF whose 5'4 probably 130lb (if she didn't get fatter over the quarantine) and a black belt. She wants to spar or grapple (don't know what term they use) with me after quarantine I'm 5'9 and 185 lbs and have only done striking (blackbelt taekwondo fag). Do I just dome her, because I am not in the mood to be yeeted around especially after falling down a flight of stairs recently?
>judo black belt
she's going to be taking you to the ground, no question about it. Be prepared to fall over or get thrown. However, once you get to the ground, always try to be the one on top. If you can't get on top, keep your elbows in and your arms bent so that they're close to your body, this will make it more difficult for her to go for a submission. When you're trying to go from the bottom to the top, the general idea is to take away the opponent's ability to stabilize on one side. Once you do this, you're going to use the rest of your body to get her off balance and tip over so that you can either get to the top, pull guard, or separate. If she takes your back, you're going to want to keep one arm close to your body and have an open hand close to the opposite side of your neck with your palm facing out so that you can fend off chokes. Keep the other hand free to make it hard for her to establish grips. If you're stuck on the ground and have the opportunity, pull guard and keep her from being able to sit back and posture up by pulling her towards you and getting either under-hooks under her arm pits with your arms.
You do 30 rounds of sparring? That’s fucking bullshit
I have no idea when I will be able to train again.
>Thank you chinks
Went cycling and running a lot in the last weeks. And I asked a traning buddy to meet up for some own training sessions on the grass.
>balancing
It's probably better to do lifting as support for fighting. Personally, I only do bodyweight-stuff and kettlebell exercises. I feel like I would run into overtraining and injuries pretty quickly, if I did both 3-4 times training a week and hard lifting.
Any recommendations for jumping rope for someone brand new to boxing? Do I just do a regular skip till I'm gassed?
3 minute rounds with 1 minute active rest (shadow, situps, pushups for 20 secs) for 3 sets, build up to 5 sets
bring her down with you
thats literally it, you could take a nap on top of her and she wouldn't be able to do shit
ordered a grappling dummy
crushing my CoC #2 for (low) reps finally.
im a cop so i just pump them out on patrol all day
Unironically this
People underestimate the importance of weight in a fight, weight classes exist for a reason. She'll have no chance against you
The main thing I worry about in street fights is some wrestle fag lunging, grabbing my waist and dropping me
The thought terrifies me, how do you defend from that? I'm afraid my reflexes will fail me and i'll end up getting smashed into concrete
Should I just tackle her like in American football, or treat her like a 5 man push sled. I was a lineman in high school as well or is that worse option?
Should I try to bulk up now or do it when I can train again? suffering from a knee injury so I can't even run or hit the bag at home
I want to fight at 75kg at 187cm, right now im 72kg
I wanna get into MMA(when we're allowed to leave the house again) what are some important or valuable fights to watch and maybe learn something from?
i got tackled by big rugby guy one time at street fight and it wasnt that bad,thanks god he didnt land any punches.
Can you do grappling/BJJ with long hair or is that a retarded idea for a guy?
Bump
Step by step guide to defensive grappling
>keep one foot slightly in front of the other, hands at shoulder height
>your weight stays between your feet - always
>hips low, head high
>do not lean forwards, backwards or sideways
>given your TKD background: feet stay on the ground
>pre-emptively break grips or slap hands away (try some of your TKD here)
>gripfight on the inside
>if opponent has inside grip, take it back
>break grips in case of emergency
>stay right in front of opponent - if they make an angle, you follow to stay square in front of them
>stiff-arm and hips low in case this fails
>if you get taken down, go full foetus if you just want to survive, elbows stick to your side, hands protect your neck
If you pull off the last two lines, she'll get very frustrated. Keep in mind, this is an incredibly defensive posture, which is very frustrating to fight against. If you want to actually learn shit and let her practice, don't stiff-arm and don't overdo the low hips. Tell her to go easy on the throws in any case.
Been grappling with long hair for a decade straight. I'm an exception though, most men with long hair cut it eventually. But if women can keep it long, so can I if I'm so inclined.
Can I pick up boxing if i broke my left wrist 2 years ago and my right wrist 8 years ago?
I dont understand this, do you just throw your hands around like a pussy and not put any effort if you dont get tired from shadow boxing? Literally anyone worth their salt praises shadowboxing, what makes you so fucking different ya dork?
Sprawl out and don't let them connect their hands, do grappling if you want to defend against grappling
OOOOOHHHHHH NO NO NOOO LOOK AT THIS DUUUUDE
Fuck he should anhero on the spot.
The fuck? Clearly you aren't shadowboxing correctly you fucking retard
You should be tired after a single round
That's the reason why I'm hesitant to take up BJJ as my next martial art after Kajukenbo, there are too many edamameboys who wear cringy vidya/anime rashguards, skip out on conditioning, and complain if you overpower them because they can't do a single pushup
If your ass can do shadow boxing for 30 rounds then clearly you’re doing something wrong. Actually put effort in shadow boxing
>do Muay Thai for ~8 years now
>convinced friend to do martial arts, he decides to go for BJJ
>has only been there for a month before telling me that he wants to spar with me
>"you've been wasting your time user, I'm going to prove just how irrelevant Muay Thai is in modern day combat"
As soon as he goes for a takedown I'm going to throw my knee at his shitty little nose
marry her and make babies. Grapple naked my friend she can't use her judo if she has no grips
get fight pass watch every ufc event from 1 to present it should take about a month
be nice to him user he doesn't know any better us bjj guys are niave to your ways
They're all delusional, this is their reaction to me saying backtaking is garbage in a streetfight because you're sandwiched between concrete and having a dude on your nuts, and that it's better to be well rounded with grappling, striking, and having some eskrima training on the street
that cant actually be a real thing he said, right? has he never seen a muay thai fight? at least be a nice guy and teep him in the tummy, dont fucking blow his head off with a knee.
Start from scratch and watch any fight with a good, notorious, or otherwise noteworthy fighter in it:
>prime Silva
>Rutten
>GSP,
>prime Bones
>Sakuraba embarrassing the Gr*cies
>Leduc's lethwei fights
>McGregor i guess
>Adesanya's fights in UFC and Glory
>Mark "the chin" Hunt
>Lawler
>Ferguson's run from TUF to UFC interim
I haven't even scratched the surface, just sharted names out of my brain. Literally pick any, they are all good and there's WAY more out there.
Khabib is boring as shit even though you can learn a thing or two about G&P/wrestlefuck from him.
Now, I'm not arguing for groundfighting in da streetz, but having your nuts crushed by taking someone's back simply doesn't happen - or at least, it hasn't happened to me in the past decade. If you're 100% sure the impaired mobility will not compromise your safety, a backtake is seriously legit too.
If you are scared of a wrestler, you should learn to wrestle. Any good wrestler will chain together attacks, so that even if you stop the first attack there's a second and third one. The only way to defend against grappling is learning to grapple.
Lads when you shoot for a double leg takedown do you bring your rear leg to the inside or the outside of your opponent? Haven't been able to drill due to this quarantine and its piss
It depends on your club/gym. Mine is pretty good, most of the dudes are pretty fit
I dunno, one time when my instructor was demonstrating transitions out of bottom (top, I guess) back mount I started hooking his legs out of habit, and he started intentionally putting all his weight on my cup and asked me if I wanted to try that again
I have to disagree with you. That just doesn't happen. Taking someone's back doesn't crush your nuts. Also if a BJJ guy takes someone's back, the engagement is lasting 5 more seconds tops.
4 days martial arts 2 days full body weights (like 2/3 of those being compounds) seems to be a good split for me
can someone give me the rundown on how to shadowbox properly
Usually the outside, and then you drive across their body.
I used to have hair down to my waist, eventually cut it to just above my shoulders cause it was getting in the way. You absolutely can grapple with longer hair it's just a pain in the arse
A good high school wrestler could rape most any BJJ practitioner.
If you have good takedown defense, you've already won. Just look up videos of wrestlers vs BJJ purists
So if I shoot left leg first then I should bring my right to their outside and drive them to my left? What would be the head positioning in this scenario left or right?
Never bothered my, and am sporting a healthy package. The only moments where I've repeatedly hurt my nuts were armbars and sacrifice throws where I immediately roll to mount.
Usually outside, but the snatch double - where you headbutt your partner in the plexus and drive straight through them - is an exception.
Head goes on the same side as outside leg, use it to push sideways into your partner and be wary of front headlocks.
user, he just lost his v-card, let him be. If you castrate him, he will never try muay-thai... BJJ wiithout striking and stand up grappling is not efficient at all. I mean one learns to duck, bob, parry punches only if the partner knows how to punch effectively. This is step one to close the distance. Then if you can't wrestle for shit and land on top, you bjj won't do shit either (yeah
you're in shit2). Your friend has to learn that, just don't rough him too much.
That pic is like a 3 month TKD guy saying that he ko'd a guy with 20 pro MT fights with elbows and all.
While we disagree on the nuts thing, would any of you ever want to take the back in a streetfight?
No you're going to get your fucking head caved in by someones boot lmao
>wrestler doesn't know any submissions and only knows pins
>wrestler gets tired after a few minutes and bjj guy finishes the fight
>wrestler vs judoka
>wrestler goes for a single leg and is instantly countered with a sacrifice throw and has the wind knocked out of him
>alternatively the wrestler shoots and is stuffed to the ground and the judoka
>wrestler gets the takedown on judoka and the judoka lands on ground with minimal damage due to breakfalling
>wrestler gets taken down and shatters his wrist bc no breakfall
>in both cases wrestler leaves his neck completely open and leads with his head opening himself up for guillotines because he never had to worry about that before
I love how much wrestlers get jerked around now that they are the best. Reminds me of this time a big wrestler came to my schools grappling club and challenged a judo black belt with the same mindset ya'll preach here. Black belt got the take down and the wrestler stuck his hand out and shattered his wrist/arm in multiple places. Purists are stupid either way (muh bjj or muh wrestling) and it comes down to the individual in any case. Though I do love to see egos getting broken. In my experience wrestlers are the worst with this and they end up quitting as soon as they start.
Wrestlers will take their 4 years of high school wrestling and think they are hot shit because they can keep up with fresh blue belts who have been doing bjj for over a year. No shit, your comparing 2 people with vast differences in mat time. Mat time and grappling experience trumps all