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Question by Derrick C: Karate,Jujitsu,Chinese Kenpō & Muay Thai for MMA Training?
I,v been thingin of this for some time i dnt want to master jus one i want to learn 4 at once to jus knw a mix of different techniques. I want to master them over time nothin else may take years but im willing to go for it. So wat do U think?
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Answer by Kokoro
you are better off training to master one, or a better term would be focusing on one, then after you get a good base down in about 8 to 10 yrs start cross training in the others. focusing on multiple styles at once in the beginning will get you nowhere. focusing on one you will learn on lot more then branch out into others
it takes decades to understand one style and a life time to master it.
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Great idea.
Start with one, which you will commit to get your first black belt. Which one you choose depends on a lot of things, like what you like and what school is close to you, and the quality of the instructor. Watch some classes before you start.
Be aware of the purpose of the school. Some are oriented strictly toward competition. This is good if you want to be in the Olympics. Others are more oriented toward practical purposes, like what to do if somebody attacks you. Decide what you want most from the school, and pick the school accordingly. Talk it over with the instructor.
Once you have reached intermediate or advanced level, you can start on another system. I don’t recommend this for a beginner because it may be confusing. But once you are intermediate, you will find that when you study a different system, the skills from the first will help you with the second and third system you take up.
Have fun, and good luck!
Karate and Chinese Kenpo are similar enough that you probably don’t need to learn both. I’d pick one (*cough* kenpo *cough*) and go with that.
Jujitsu will give you excellent clinching and throwing skills, and a good knowledge of joint locks. Japanese Jujistu is only okay on the ground though. It does have some floor work, but its not very sophisticated.
Muay Thai will give you full contact experience, which will make your kenpo technique more effective. This is excellent because kenpo has some devestating self defense moves, but it takes an experienced fighter to really make them work.
If you go the distance and get to black belt level in each (see tangent below) you will be a very good stand up fighter, good in both the ring and in real confrontations. The only real choice for an opponent would be to take you down, but with your clinch skills and muay thai knees and elbows that would not be easy. Even if they did get you down, your jujistu training would make you at least comfortable at that range. If your opponent was an expert grappler, he might be safe. But if he was just an average guy he’d still be in deep trouble.
I like the mix. Good luck!
Tangent: On training multiple systems. I have never seen the problem with this. If you’re a smart guy, you can hack it. You’ll want to pick one system as your “base” and dedicate at least three days per week to that. Probably jujitsu since that is the most complicated of the arts you named. After that I’d work in two days where you do BOTH muay thai and kenpo. Just do the classes back to back if scheduling allows. The other two days I’d get some recovery time in, you’ll probably need it. Muay Thai and Kenpo are very complimentary (I know, I have a 5th degree black belt in Kempo, and I currently train Muay Thai.) There are differences, but they probably won’t confuse you too much.
Also, though it can take a decade to truly “master” a system, especially one like jujitsu, you can be very, very good at it in about a third of that time. Train five days a week like I describe above and you’ll be a wrecking machine in about three years. Definitely ready to start doing some amatuer MMA if that is what you want to do.
MMA training is boxing, muay thai, gracie jiu-jitsu, Wrestling and physical conditioning. that a full time job lol!. That a traditional package or background of majority of MMA fighter
Remember these things;
“No person can serve two masters at one time.”
Having bunch of style is like you are traveling in the path and pace without any direction, you will going to memorize things but you will not going to understand what you are doing accordingly, learning at same time is like gathering an information but don’t even know which to consider, and the result is a useless hope, such is what we called “CONFUSIONS.”
Good luck
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