View Full Version : whats needed for mma!


kamicazze
07-12-2008, 06:40 AM
basically i do amateur boxing and classical jui juitsu wich consists of karatake, judo and jui juitsu! what else will i need to be a mma fighter! bear in mind i live in the uk so greco roman wrestling is not accessible down ere! im only trying to get backgrounds before i enter an mma gym in a few years! boxing gets priority first

FluugMacMan
07-12-2008, 12:37 PM
BJJ, is world's different then classical jiujitsu. Take BJJ with and without gi, and your game will completely evolve to a different level.

Nodogoshi
07-12-2008, 01:13 PM
I agree with Fluug Maan, although I will say there are advantages to training with a gi.

Also, you may consider just joining an MMA gym earlier, as MMA striking is very different from boxing, or pretty much anything else for that matter (mainly because of takedowns), and MMA grappling is different as well (mainly because of striking - although pure BJJ does seem to transfer very well).

Also, if you have a means you may like to check out Russian Sambo as well, if only for the leg locks.

sunthunder
07-12-2008, 02:00 PM
I'd say for now you're fine with boxing as your go-to stand-up art, but you really need to ditch the classical jiujitsu and find a BJJ school.

Fighters from the UK are often very limited because we simply don't really have wrestling here. You often see UK fighters lose simply because they can't stop a takedown,Terry Etims last fight comes to mind. Clementi was not vastly better than him standing or on the ground, the takedowns won him that fight. It's harder and harder to get by without wrestling in MMA these days. A really good wrestler with a good top position game and a little bit of submission defense can nulify far better technical grapplers on the ground. So I'd say in general what most UK MMA fighters need to be doing is developing a really sick guard game, in paticular good sweeps and escapes from the bottom.