Nicodemus
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I watch it if I'm with friends, who ppv a lot of it. I used to like it more. Many fights inevitably go to the ground. Admittedly I suck at that, but I never thought it was fun anyways, and especially not fun to watch.
ground is the best part, takes the most skill.
I can appreciate it, but it doesn't play to my strengths. I like to move on my feet, and hopefully strike to end things quickly. I don't even consider myself strong. I have long limbs, which helps with striking power. Actual brute strength like I'd need to wrestle or fight on the ground isn't there. I never formally fought like that, but the times it happened with normal people, I almost want to immediately give up. lol.
That's just wasting my money along with my time.
ground is the best part, takes the most skill.
I like to move on my feet, and hopefully strike to end things quickly. I don't even consider myself strong. I have long limbs, which helps with striking power. Actual brute strength like I'd need to wrestle or fight on the ground isn't there. I never formally fought like that, but the times it happened with normal people, I almost want to immediately give up. lol.
That's like comparing apples to airplanes.
Having worked on my stand up game, wrestling, and ground game, I wouldn't say any one of them "takes the most skill".
They just take different skills.
Having worked on all three as well jiu-jitsu takes the most skill and is the hardest to learn by far,
It's easy to get a basic level of understanding with stand up. It's harder to master muay thay in my opinion than it is BJJ.
They are all hard for different reasons.
Defiantly not true you can easily compare a roundhouse kick to a more advanced technique in jiu-jitsu like a flying triangle or arm bar that are just as hard to pull off. I found mauy thai classes to be more about conditioning and repetition there is a huge emphasis on cardio and strength, we would spend 20 minutes just on skipping. Jiu-jitsu classes have more of an emphasis on technique. With every art though you can spend days practicing one skill to get it "perfect" so it's still subjective as to what art takes "greater skill".
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I agree about the ground, but elbows are some of the best weapons, that and kicks to the knees.Both of those require me to get too close to people, for my liking. I don't want to be on the ground locked in with someone, and I don't want to get close enough for using elbows and knees either. That isn't to say I'm against them or anything. They're badass with the right people. I just mean where I think I'm natural at. Like, how do fight previously, before training? Some people like boxing, some wrestling, etc.. I don't study anything myself (although my main teacher growing up had a strong bent towards Aikido), but I'd say western kickboxing is more my thing. Emphasis on boxing. I think big kicks are best avoided too, unless someone is just standing there. I only say kickboxing because I like the option.
Im a purple belt in BJJ ask away.
True or false: I have heard that MMA fighters do not take blows to the face as well as traditional boxers (traditional, meaning, the kind that only use their hands with big gloves)?
Both of those require me to get too close to people, for my liking. I don't want to be on the ground locked in with someone, and I don't want to get close enough for using elbows and knees either. That isn't to say I'm against them or anything. They're badass with the right people. I just mean where I think I'm natural at. Like, how do fight previously, before training? Some people like boxing, some wrestling, etc.. I don't study anything myself (although my main teacher growing up had a strong bent towards Aikido), but I'd say western kickboxing is more my thing. Emphasis on boxing. I think big kicks are best avoided too, unless someone is just standing there. I only say kickboxing because I like the option.
Native muay thai is even more unappealing. My mom has a Thai sattelite that shows a lot of fights there. They're more like hockey slugfests. They just stand eye to eye and beat the shit out of each other. Who can take the most pain.
You're saying you don't like close combat because it's not your style but the reality is close combat is needed to win a fight because the fight game goes to many areas not just toe to toe. In order to be a complete fighter you have to know how to clinch, how to throw knees, elbows, how to take somebody down, how to sprawl and defend a takedown, how to get back up from a takedown, submit someone on the ground, etc etc. You're not thinking much about the offensive aspects as fighting.
I'm sure that's all true in competition. I'm only talking about self defense. I know little about MMA. Everything you said might be crucial. I don't know. I'm just talking about how fighting comes natural to me, without any reference to it on the mat. I like moving around and hopefully, knock someone down if I can (Even better, bypass a fight completely and smash their head into a wall). As for getting close, I have some things that work to my advantage. I'm left handed, quick, and 6'5". If I find an opening for a knee strike, I'd do that, but I'd never define myself around it. Or rely on flying knee strikes, like many MT fighters do. Why would I need to? My body or posture can do other things. I don't need to close the gap that way. As far as any martial arts go, I always liked Bruce Lee's instruction to his students to only use what works for them. He urged them to not do things just because he did it or it fit a style. He wanted them to adapt to their own needs. He didn't give any belts or have any levels. He just told them to leave when they thought they could solve the problems specific to them, and come back if they had new ones.