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Which style of training discipline would be the most beneficial for MMA?


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Styles of training that would help you become a better MMA fighter

 

Of course, MMA is a combination of many fighting styles hence the name mixed martial arts. But which training styles/disciplines are the most important?

 

I think its in this order

-Boxing

-Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

-Freestyle wrestling

-Muay Thai etc

 

Reason I say boxing is because all fights start standing up, and most fighters are strikers except for wrestlers like Khabib who try and take you down the first few seconds.

 

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and most fighters are strikers

 

Most fighters are terrible strikers. The best base for MMA in my opinion is any sort of wrestling, as the discipline and familiarity with weight-cutting it will provide is unlike most other martial arts. Plus, its great for building you strong and athletic.

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In my opinion and experience, Wrestling/BJJ and Thai Kick Boxing are the best.

 

Wrestlers have a never-ending cardio gas tank and yes a lot of fights start on the feet but most end on the ground and when a wrestler is on top of you, you aren't having a good day.

 

Muay Thai I would say is neck and neck because it teaches you efficient striking in every aspect, It teaches you how to utilize the clinch, as well as having a more MMA style of stance(Minus the standing straight up). It is literally the closest thing to MMA striking you can find without having an actual MMA striking coach. I am fortunate to live near a former UFC fighter and pro fighter with over 30 professional wins under his belt and we train every aspect of MMA there.

 

Boxing is good but training boxing techniques alone for MMA not so much. Boxing does not teach you to check leg kicks, it does not teach you defense of any sort for body nor head kicks, also boxing teaches you to pivot on your feet when throwing hooks and that leaves you wide open for a takedown. It is much too one dimensional and has too many flaws when matched up against a grappler or Thai artist.

 

BJJ can also be just as effective as wrestling, not for the takedown defense but the grappling is a lot more technical and you spend a lot of time

grappling off your back so you aren't uncomfortable down there in a fight, also wrestling teaches basic submissions, No-Gi Jiu Jitsu is super effective for learning MMA grappling and awesome submissions that a wrestler would have no idea to get out of, vice versa, a lot of BJJ guys

have trouble with the amount of pressure and cardio that wrestlers bring to the mat.

 

Hope this helped you and good luck with your martial arts journey!

 

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Clearly it is wrestling when it comes to the most useful aspect of MMA but there is good reason for this.

First and foremost the wrestling training gives unparallelled levels of all around strength and conditioning which most of the time translates into bigger KO power than most when you are training that hard, and also the ability to go hard and be explosive for longer periods of time.

Next is the knowledge of TD and TD Def which can keep you out of some tough binds.

But this is where the problems start. I find the most useful type of wrestling training is Judo and Greco Roman Wrestling. For some reason I find that a lot of all american wrestlers and all these folk wrestlers and just so many types of wrestlers, they just chase the takedown way too much. I see a problem with the style. Sambo not so much so I would also recommend Sambo but over that I would say Judo first then Greco Roman and then Sambo (which obviously many ppl would say that Sambo is the best in the world but although it is very efficient and good for GnP I still prefer Judo and Greco Roman).

The reason I say Judo is the best is because Judo is very clinch focused and has some amazing TD and TD def tactics and can build your balance and strength to a phenomenal level. And once you become a master of balance from Judo, few will be able to take you down, outmuscle/perform you in the clinch or even resist your TDs and various efforts in the clinch. You can even just offset your opponents balance, not wanting or needing to take them down if they ever take you into the clinch or you need a second to gain an advantage.

I find that yeah, sure a nice double leg is great but there is just something about the clinch superiority that makes me believe that the skills of balance, TD def and TDs transfer to non clinch situations, reason being that for a TD you need to be in a clinch position to attempt the TD (no matter how fast you are at executing a double leg or single leg from the standup position it is performed in a clinch position even if it is for a split second).

Aside from that Greco Roman wrestling delves into a lot of what Judo does but in a different way and offers great trasnferable skills as well especially for MMA. Greco Roman goes particularly well with Boxing to make for some really great dirty boxing that is way more effective and powerful than any other practitioner in the clinch (elbows and knees are amazing and can do enormous damage in the clinch but nothing is as consistent and powerful as someone like Dan Henderson or Daniel Cormier executing their dirty boxing making everyone wonder "how the hell do they do that much damage with clinch punches?!"

And then of course Sambo. But I don't know too much about that. We'll leave that to the crazy Russians!

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Mma wrestling: martial artists have skills, like components they can apply wrestling like glue to help put everything together.

Olympic wrestling and Sambo are complete in themselves and are naturally at a completely different level of caliber and training regime.

 

What defines it as the king of all skills is that a specialist can add wrestling to his/her skillset and it compliments whatever is already there, whereas a wrestling on it's own will beat any other skill on its own. BJJ practitioners challenge a wrestler, but they still have to get them down....so the wrestler chooses where the fight goes predominantly.

 

....that's why Sonnen kicks everyone's arse "^^"...and Cormier. Lefty I do however think that Olympic level Judo with high level wrestling would be an ideal combo. If I could start from scratch, I would do Judo and Sambo with MT. Then BJJ with boxing.

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