popped it back in and some pain in moving it around. I hate my left shoulder. I am 19 and scared if this will turn into something long term. I am going to the doctors soon but not sure how much of help the german doctor will be. how fucked am I? I am in a really point rn

I'm starting boxing so I'm not prepared right now for sparring. But eventually I want to start with light sparring. Someone told me that he doesn't use head protection...

Is that OK? I mean, it's just light sparring... but I'm not sure if I need to buy or not.

What is your advice?

I wrestled in college and have a brown belt in a martial art. That's all I've got to say about that *said in Forest Gump's voice*.

I've found that sometimes a friend of mine wants to challenge me cause "I ain't so tough". I can usually just tire them right out with wrestling moves or toss them if they come at me / give me any opportunity to do so.

What I'd like to know, is what would you guys recommend as some of the best ways to tire out / throw an untrained fighter. Be it a jerk at the bar or a friend with over-inflated pride, what moves would you use or what martial arts style would best serve these purposes? My guess is Judo / Aikido but you're the experts, not me.

I think my question is unclear by nature so I'll try to give some examples:

1. Guy runs at me attempting to tackle. I get lower and toss him up by his hips or turn him by grabbing an arm and throwing my own hips into him.
2. Drunk farmer throws a haymaker. I see him winding up a mile away and guide that oncoming punch while turning, and throw him with all of his momentum over my shoulder or roll to my back and kick him up up and away.
3. High kick comes in and I redirect it while turning with a sweep.

I feel like I'm not nearly as skilled as I would like to be at this so I'm hoping you experts can give me some of the best / most effective ways of throwing a person based on their attempted strike or general momentum (tackle attempt).

Please refer me to Judo or something if this kind of thing is well covered there. I'm looking to get a broader experience in MMA and want to focus first on the average untrained person coming at me and using their momentum against them or holds that tire them out without breaking their bones, tendons, ligaments. 80% play, 20% real fights is the use case here.

I have recently started going to an mma gym where they offer various different martial arts. Two of which are boxing and muay thai. In the classes the coach will show us a combo and we have to partner up and basically just hit the pads with that combo. Is this the norm for these kinds of classes or am i missing out on something

So before I did bodybuilding and I started doing Muay Thai about half a year ago. I keep reading that some of you guys train 4 or 5 times a week. I can do strenght training or fighting training 4 times a week but if I mix it I have to take 1 day after 2 days of training because otherwise I get ill due to exaustion.

How do you get fit enough to do 3 days of strenght training (chest, back, legs) and still have enough energy to do the fighting training?

Am I supposed to not give it my all in training, do you guys not train everything in 1 week or am I missing something?

Please send your recommendations. I’m a beginner, I’ve been going to UFC but I feel I need more time with the instructors in the classes. UFC is good for conditioning though. I wanna get better at my skills and techniques.

I’ve been doing boxing for a little over a month now and today I just did some sparring with a pro and amateur. I got washed unsurprisingly. I’m not mad at that part. What I’m mad at is that I don’t even remember a single thought going through my head during the sparring session. It’s like it didn’t know what to do so I just kept jabbing and freezing up. Maybe getting hit put me in some sort of shock? My first sparring session I didn’t have this issue. I didn’t freeze or anything but my first sparring partner was a beginner like me. Any advice or experience?

https://www.amazon.com/Japans-Complete-Fighting-System-Shin-ebook/dp/B006OO37I8

Obviously Shinkage-Ryu is a real style of Kenjutsu but the description of this book is pretty strange.

“Master the extremely effective but relatively unknown Shin Kage Ryu jiu jitsu with this illustrated martial arts book.

Shin Kage Ryu jiu jitsu has existed as a fighting system for over two hundred years, and the literal meaning of the three characters is "spirit shadow way." Originating in Japan and influenced by Okinawan fighting systems, the art has evolved into one that incorporates karate-like kicks, punches, and strikes, as well as the throwing, grappling, and joint techniques of judo. Thus, Shin Kage Ryu is a complete fighting system, one that combines the best elements of karate with those of jujutsu.

The unique mix of disciplines in Shin Kage Ryu makes it possible to fight with an opponent in an upright position and, if necessary, take him to the ground and score a victory by grappling or choking. Students are also taught extensive attack and defense techniques with both the sword and knife.”

Hi guys.

Do you's notice differences in martial arts styles when they perform the same technique?
A unique flair, or what have you.

For example, I'm a Shotokan Karate guy, and in boxing, the coach was trying to change the way I punch. I wasn't the form, but like, the rates of speed I was punching?

You know how karate has those snappy punches that kind of stop for an instant at the end?
Maybe in boxing, the punches don't come to a complete stop at the end, but kind of drift past a little bit.
I don't know honestly what the heck it was, thats why im asking you guys.

Lets bring all martial arts into the discussion, maybe judoka has a different flair than a samboist, I don't know.

Mma is the only thing that keeps me going in life and i just feel like shit my doctor told me i have keratocnous and told me my fight career has ended and it pissed me off cause she made it seem like it was nothing to me. i rather lose my vision than stop fighting. she didn’t mention any transplant just hard lens and cross linking can i still train?

What martial arts styles/combat sports would you like to see her more attention globally? I personally think sumo is kinda slept on due to lack of understanding of what sort of athleticism rikishi have.

Is there any way to “fake” something to cancel a one year contract at my gym? They said either I would have to move 50 miles away or more OR pay $250 as a cancellation fee. (Btw my dad signed me up and he told me he did not know it was a year contract, now we are trying to cancel).

did any of you catch this on the news, the security guard for the san jose california mayor got into a physical confrontation with someone while the mayor was being interviewed, the security guy who is supposedly a police officer wasnt afraid to get physical but it seemed like he had no hand to hand combat skills at all, in this real life situation we can see that an art like boxing or judo would be excellent to know for ending the confrontation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QjwxMQN2dA

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?

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 bigger/older kid for that reason.

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 schools or if it's PMA-wide.

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

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:

1. 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?
2. Any martial arts center recommendation? In CBD or western suburbs.
3. With your answer to my first question, can you recommend some home workout videos on youtube? Let's say you suggested taekwondo, can you recommend some YT channel where there are workout videos for stronger kicks, faster kicks, and etc.

Would really appreciate any help from you guys. Thanks!

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 drawbacks of that amount of muscle mass? Assume the weightlifter still dedicates most of their training time, nutrition and sleep schedule to maintaining their size and lifting performance, while improving their fighting knowledge, skills and cardio as much as realistically possible.

1. Self-defence
2. Starting a parallel competitive MMA career - UFC rules, steroid use magically remains undetected

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?

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.

1. 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.

2. The lateral drop: Another throw I could almost never get the timing of in wrestling but would frequently land in mma. I’d land it by stepping off the cage when people tried pushing me against it.

Drop your techniques down in the comments! :)

Im asking this because Leung Jan’s and Wong Shun Leung’s Wing Chun modified their Wing Chun from fights from different martial arts

No question just a short anecdote

Last night we were doing boxing drills to warm up. Two people to a bag, two minute rounds. Diffetent combinations and shuffling different rounds. For example, one round we did...

Shield / Jab / Cross / Lead kick / Slap out (breakfall) / Defensive stand up...shuffle to 1/4 around the bag and do it again for 2 minutes

And we were drilling the bag, building up speed, working on fast footwork, and at 42 years old I'm getting gassed out, sweating but pushing through.

After the rounds were over the instructor said, "the pace you are setting for yourself is set yourself, not once have I said go faster or harder, but something inside each and every one of you said you need to go this hard and this fast and I love it, you're all doing great."

It got me thinking of what that something is inside of me and how I can use it to accomplish other goals in life. I wish I could find that drive in other things I do. It's not always there.