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Question: For mma,should i master an art & then continue to train with another art?

(Posted by: ? on 2010-02-05 03:10:45)

Say for example. should i do muay thay and bjj training together or should i first train in muay thai followed by bjj

Posted by: Shihan J on 2010-02-05, 04:39:16

Mastery takes a life time, you can never truly master a style. or perfect it. it takes decades just to understand one style. and even then most people end up only understanding a small part of there own style. in japanese and okinawa styles a first degree black belt means you have an understanding of the basics and are ready to begin your train. i usually recommend after about 10 yrs to start cross training in other styles.

Posted by: Tony on 2010-02-05, 04:00:39

Do it together, as you able to pick up on both sports, they are both totally different. BJJ all about ground work being able to lock your partner up as muay thai is your stand up game being able to throw deadly kicks, if your interested in mma you should look for an mma gym were they other a variety of classes its good to know a bit of everything including wrestling, boxing, muay thai and bjj

Posted by: yak on 2010-02-05, 05:17:22

Start with you bjj you'll have heaps more fun and you don't have to get beaten up to get good or kick coconut trees to harden your legs.

Posted by: JimG on 2010-02-05, 05:25:50

Like Shihan J said. I would recommend getting a good foundation in one before moving on to train in another. Of course I never trained for the sport. I was more focused on surviving in the streets of Detroit.

Posted by: Daniel John on 2010-02-05, 05:46:56

Today there are plenty of MMA clubs where another person has already combined the techniques of some styles, and diluded them to what is useful in that sport. That's probably the best course of action today... Either that or I'd take a competitive course like Judo, or even Boxing.

Posted by: clowns on 2010-02-05, 16:25:43

If you want to do MMA then do MMA. If you want to do martial arts then stick with one and learn it then take up some thing else. Try wrestling, get good at wrestling then do MMA. MMA is a sport, not a martial art. If you want to do MMA go to an MMA gym and follow their curriculum. Its up to you. To the guy above me who changed his name, I've been around MMA for quite a while and not one gym I have been to, trained at or fought against has just taken different martial arts and threw them all together. Maybe you should go look in to some legit schools and see what it is really like.