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I was wondering how many schools out there teach MMA as it is in the UFC or Pride. I mean like sparring with MMA gloves and combining standup and groundwork in a sparring session. The school I go to teaches you groundwork and teaches you standup, but they don't combine them really well.
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My MT coach runs an MMA school, they do put it all together but then they also go out and send people out to compete in some of the smaller MMA orgs... -
When I was doing brazilian jiu jitsu sometimes we combined it with boxing and donned our gloves, unfortunately they were boxing gloves, hard to do ground grappling with them.....Comment
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Yea exactly, we have trained like that before too but its kind of stupid. I'm trying to find a place that does the real thing.Originally posted by Jiu-fu fighter View PostComment
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Is your school an MMA school?
In addition to my coach's school, I'm sure that say...a school like, say Miletich would have to teach MMA pretty close to ring style.Comment
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Well, my school teaches both brazilian jiu jitsu and kickboxing, which is what most mma fighters use, so yeah pretty much it is an mma martial arts place,
unfortunately most of the time these classes are not combined together which would make it much more realistic, instead of having separate classes for standing and ground fighting.....
and like I said about the boxing gloves, can't do anything with them on the ground, a great percentage of the time you need to be able to use the fingers for submissions.... cest la vie
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Most MMA schools do spar with 4 ounce gloves. The problem you'll find is, you get cut and injured too much, so it's not like a 4 time a week thing, much more like a once a month type thing. Could be as many times as 1-2 times a week, but your body needs time to heal(I'm not a wuss but cuts need time to heal.)Originally posted by fijeeboi View PostComment
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they all do
even the 8 Oz combat sports gloves allow for cuts & bruises (I will be preaching sunday with a blck eye!) But I dare say they, or the top contender 8 Oz sparring models offer the best of saftey & flexibillity, sparring with 4 Oz gloves is not smart, and you should never spar full speed more than once a week, even boxers who use 10 oz headgear and 14 - 18 OZ sparring glovers rarely will spare more than 2 a week the reason is not so much cuts but damage due to concussion is ongoing by that I mean it compounds if you go to a school where you spar with 4 oz gloves period it is not smart, but more than once a week you are risking serious ireversible brain damage!Comment
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I agree with boxing... but not so much in MMA. Brain damage occurs less and there is a lesser risk of it for two reasons. 1. 50% of MMA is grappling, which right there changes it from boxing. 2. More ways to knock out leave more ways to defend from which leave the defenses less focused as in boxing. A quick knockout saves trauma to the head as opposed to prolonged consistent punches to the head.Originally posted by rev.jc View PostComment
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My gym typically does 2 days of groundwork 1 day of stand up and 1 day MMA a week.
I find MMA sparring to be the most physcially draining of the lot. The intensity is just unlike any other.
The reason we focus more on the ground is because most of us have a better striking game than a ground game. And a ground game takes alot more time to build up than standup.Comment
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As for gym which call themselves MMA but never actually mix the ground with stand up are going to be at a disadvantage when it comes to MMA.
Learning Ground work and Standup seperately would be somewhat akin to making a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips. Its still a cookie, but it isn't exactly there yet.
When Strikes suddenly come into the picture, a half-guard(which could be advantageous in pure grappling) can quickly turn into a half-mount(aka getting pounded).
From guard, holding a guy's head would be enough to stop their advance in grappling. In MMA however, controlling the head can leave you wide open to strikes, especially to your own head.
These are just some of the small things that changes from a pure grappling to MMA. You won't understand till the both aspects of a fight come into play.Comment
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here's the answer
combat sports international off ers a mma glove that provides the protection of a 16 ounce boxing sparring glove in an mma size package so theres no reason why you can't do ground sparring safely i would use head gear though otherwise it' just like boxing sans head gear but your head has no place to go on the groundi've boxed with out head gear on more than a few occasion s and it wasn't that bad so what ever works for you is best btw fu*k brain damage brain damage smain damage I always say, if you want to make an omlett you gotta break a few eggs
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