Arlovski #1

Ok... Guess i aint gonna get any tips

[Danny]

Well you need at least one stand up art and a grappling art. For stand up you got Muay Tai Kickboxing, Shotokan Karate, Jeet Kune Do, Taekwondo, and Boxing. For grappling you got yourself American Wrestling, Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Combat Hapkido, etc.

Just mix and match to what you perfure. I do Taekwondo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I just perfure those two arts to the others. But it's whatever your taste in fighting is.

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Arlovski #1

Thanks I just wanted some tips from people who already involved in it thanks

swampwater

wrestling is the easiest to learn. U can become pretty good at it in a short amount of time and if you combine it with BJJ you can become pretty good on the ground. I use muay thai for stand-up, and if there were a boxing club around i would do that too.

swampwater

how old are you

mepersoner

Wrestling is good, I only wrestled for about half a year and I'm pretty proficient on the ground. You'll just have to learn to break that nasty habit they teach of turning to your stomach so you don't get pinned, that's not what you want to do in a real fight...

[Danny]

I would advise you though to learn a martial art with your wrestling. You want to be able to use submissions on the ground and not just pound away.

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Arlovski #1

...Im 18...

LastExit34

Start with whatever interests you the most.

Arlovski #1

yea i will start with what interest me but i wanted to see what worked for other people first

swampwater

Most everyone takes Muay Thai for stand-up, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for the ground, and wrestling or Judo for takedowns. I also believe wrestling is very useful for control, because it teaches you both takedowns and the sprawl. These two things will help you keep the fight in the stage you like to be in, whether it's on the ground or standing up.

[Danny]

But you also need to think that if a lot of people do the same arts then you have a great idea of what they're going to do. I'd try something different that might catch people off guard like Judo.

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swampwater

Some good arts that not many people use are Hapkido, Sambo, Greco-Roman wrestling, catch wrestling, pankration, shootfighting, and Krav Magna

TaddT189

I've wrestled my whole life and am completely comfortable with working from my back. Go with wrestling, you can dominate a fight with takedowns. Mix it in with a some good submissions and great conditioning and you will be a pretty good fighter.

DrumzCT

If you can find an MMA gym that would be the best. Going to two different style MA schools will be pretty expensive and an MMA school can better teach you how to meld your styles together.

Arlovski #1

i was thinking about sambo cause of my main man arlovski

TaddT189

Sambo is a form of wrestling, with alot of throws and submissions. I have had the privlege to wrestle with someone who was a 5 X National Sambo Champion, and a master of the sport. He was pretty good and taught me a good bit. Even though when wrestling with him he weighed about 20 lbs. more than me he still had alot of stuff to teach me.

[Danny]

The difference with sambo and wrestling is the locks that sambo provides. I know this is a generalization but most wrestlers get a takedown and either ground and pound or lay and pray. No offense to any wrestlers out there. But that's what I see out there when I watch MMA. I'd rather take an actual ground art over wrestling because of the arsenal of submissions.

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Arlovski #1

Yea i hate watching those fights where i guy keeps taking his opponent top the mat and dosent do anything but lay on him and throw a punch any once and a while