Wrestling

[sercuerdas]

i wrestled for a decade or so, it will give you more than you could possibily believe. you'll learn to shoot and counter shots, throws and how not to be thrown, gain balance and the ability to use leverage.
the biggest thing you'll learn is how to control position, this is what wrestling is all about. the whole game is to put your opponent where you want them. in my bjj experience i have found this is some thing that takes pure bjjers longer to learn. alot of times they don't have the time in training to stay on top when they want to.
it will really round out your game.

[Ghost]

Didnt you get tired?

[proud chinaman]

one of the bad things about anything grappling is when you have to do it with folk that stink so bad that it makes smelling feet that have just been treading over cow dung a more enjoyable experience.

[sercuerdas]

no cause i'm the s**t just like you.

[Tom Yum]

Wrestlers are probably some of the best fighters in the MMA game, because they can shoot and defend takedowns and get position. Plus, they are allready familiar with the kind of conditioning and demands that fights with grappling require and can learn how to throw punches, kicks and knees ala Randy Couture, Mark Kerr and Matt Hughes.

Wrestling as a base is where I would have started if my highschool offered it. The year after I graduated, the school district just organized it

Other than explosive lifting, I get the impression that wrestling requires a huge amount of isometric strength-endurance because if you want to keep tight to your opponent who is trying to keep you away, you sometimes have to pull on him alot.

My muscles get shaky after any grappling because its not used to continuous tension, rather high repetition quick contractions you do in boxing and stand up. Likewise, I've heard pure grappling guys complain that they were too stiff and slow when trying stand up.

[BadgerFu57]

Originally posted by Tom Yum

My muscles get shaky after any grappling because its not used to continuous tension, rather high repetition quick contractions you do in boxing and stand up. Likewise, I've heard pure grappling guys complain that they were too stiff and slow when trying stand up.

How do I counter-act the stiff muscles of pure grapplers? Hit the heavy bag?

[Tom Yum]

keep up your shadow boxing and footwork. Work the heavy bag from time to time.

[MasterChief]

If you want to be a well-rounded fighter/martial artist, definitely wrestle. Wrestlers are great at takedowns. Folkstyle/freestyle is probably better than greco-roman, because you learn leg shots and throws, while GR is all upper body.

In MMA, wrestlers do very well, and once they learn submissions, they are close to unstoppable. Severn was a great wrestler who struggled (sometimes) with submissions, but he still won a lot of MMA bouts.

Sometimes wrestlers can get clocked by a striker, but much more often they take down the striker and that's all she wrote.

I remember watching Randy Couture wrestle in high school; he was a beast then and won the state championship. Then went on to nationals in college (Oklahoma?) then went MMA.

Any good coach will not make you have an eating problem. If he pressures you to eat unhealthily, don't wrestle for him.

Though, you will do better if you work out, eat right, and burn extra fat off your body. Fat just bumps you into a higher weight class where somebody who trained harder than you and has lower body fat and more strength may be waiting.

Not all wrestlers are stiff and muscle-bound, though some are. You're best bet is to keep your distance and work on your footwork. If a strong wrestler can't grab you, he can't tie you in a knot. But if you're not a wrestler, and a good, strong wrestler has you wrapped up on the ground, look for a choke/submission. Speed has little to do with it when he has you in a pretzel.

[BadgerFu57]

Well, made it through the first week of preseason. The workouts are tough, and we just started. We are adding 30 minutes to our workouts next week. I think a wrestler could beat most amateur Martial Artists just by conditioning sake. I am going to look like a polar bear when I am done with all the weight-lifting and running.

[MrPoopy]

Most wrestlers are in really good shape. Now you know why.