Martial Arts General

Don't fall for the stupid ass >Bjj meme. I cannot stress this enough: focus entirely on striking properly. All wrestling well get you is mm apart from your sweaty opponent, who will 999/1000 percent assured will be a dude as well, making you a submissive faggot. Striking will let you hurt your opponent from a range, all the while making people respect you if you're fluid enough (instead of picturing how pink and supple your tight wrestling boy-butthole is). Boxing or Kickboxing will work. Depends on how much you like looking at women's feet.

Idk about bjj, but the striking styles wont hurt you if you avoid heavy sparring and intense competition.

Sparring heavy = head hits and concussions/TBI's. Rare but you increase your chances when you get punched in the head a lot. Much more likely in intense competition where you both want to win very badly. Also, training for competition can wear you down in the long run. Unlikely in a normal gym tho, you'll be fine user.

thank you

Oh mma schools are great, the only issue is, like all gyms, its more about the quality of the instructors. Like either way, mma gym, bjj dojo, or kickboxing gym, thats gonna be the important aspect. An mma gym would be good though to check and see if you say prefer striking or the grappling aspects. Like idk i find my grappling skill accelerates way faster than my kickboxing, its just more of my expertise i guess? Its still really good to have the option to train both in the same day, see what feels more important to you. MMA is fun af though, and diffidently important if you're thinking of training more for self defense.

>Ordered a heavy bag Ordered a heavy bag
What are the gloves for? Unless your technique sucks badly or you're using a bag filled with sand or steelshot, striking the bag with bare hands is just fine. It even helps improve technique, as minor errors result in dragging your knuckles across the bag painfully.

What for? for unarmed self defense, boxing is best and competition oriented muay thai is close as long as you don't fall for a mcdojo. Judo depends massively on the school, ranging from brutal crippling throws to soft grappling. BJJ is useless unless you're going to be fighting under rules that actively support it's approach the way UFC does.

>for striking sports like kickboxing or muay thai, will I fuck up my body?
Not unless you fall for one of the few trainers that teach deadening the nerves (also called roller conditioning) or fight full contact. Grappling sports are far more dangerous, especially if they allow knee holds (which most styles other than greco-roman wrestling and judo do).
>thought bjj was cool, but i heard it was cringe
It's cringe. I tried it for a while when i had to move somewhere where there was no wrestling (my original grappling base). Even if the teacher is competent, it's still a style optimized for UFC that's of little use in other MMA competitions and completely useless outside the ring. If you know how to punch straight, which takes about a day to learn, BJJ is useless against you - unless rules state that you can't avoid grappling.
>what's the first time in the bjj gym like?
In a good gym, they'll start you out with rolls or falls and make you train just falling safely before starting any throws or grapples. Takes a few days to months. In a profit oriented gym as well as most mcdojos, they'll start with having you thrown by experienced guys and teaching you simple holds. Injury risk is higher and teaching effectiveness lower that way, but it's less likely to make people quit.

>All wrestling well get you is mm apart from your sweaty opponent
That's grappling. Actual wrestling (at least the two european styles) is focused more on throws. It works quite well (unlike BJJ), but it'll always be considered excessive in court since most throws are designed to injure the spine or break limbs on impact.

My thumb gets injured from using the heavy bag and I'd like to know how to prevent that, it feels like my punches are tearing the joint that connects my lower thumb to my hand
I use pic related gloves, no wraps

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>throws
yeah whats harder to throw? An entire human, or your own two fists? Seems more worthwhile to train the fists then

I needed to get new bag gloves anyway, was using the loaners at my gym. Probably going to buy new sparring gloves as well, the padding is starting to condense. I never really tried hitting the bag without gloves, I'll try that

train harder

Elaborate

>optimized for UFC that's of little use in other MMA competitions
I've never heard anyone say this and can't see why it should be true. How are the rules in the MMA competitions where BJJ is of little use?

You're making an actual fist and not playing "got your nose", right?

Yes my fist is perfectly fine, obviously not every punch will be careful but I'm not doing anything inherently wrong I don't think

Yeah but throw a person once and they lose. Unless you're a heavyweight champ, guaranteed knockouts aren't likely, and I know you aren't a champ

Use wraps and boxing gloves. Problem solved.

Anyone have any good content on Pankration?
Also bump.

Is there such a thing as shirtless/no-gi judo? I wanted to get into it but every time I see a competition it always depends on the judoka's gi

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MMA is today's Pankration.

Judo anons any advice for picking a place to start and getting into condition for it?

The first choice is at a Japanese American cultural center and is 12 days a month for $25 with a $50 buck initiation and GI fee so $75 initially.

Location 2 has two former French national team Judo members as its instructors and is $150 per month for unlimited 3 days a week classes with each class being like 2 hours almost.

Place three is $230 per month unlimited classes 6 days a week

Also for getting into shape what do you guys personally focus on flexibility/cardio/back strength, arm strength, legs, etc. Aka what gives you an upper hand in matches because I would like to compete on the side?

Greco-roman with submissions and footsweeps?