Yeah, your coach can offer you the best guidance. Ask him to let you spar more in the gym. How you handle yourself in light, (relatively) friendly sparring will give you and your coach the best idea of whether you are ready for competition.
Also, you may want to get some amateur boxing matches and (once you start training grappling) BJJ, judo or other grappling competitions under your belt before you start competing in MMA. Certainly BJJ competitions include divisions for white belts, so you could probably start competing in these divisions after, say, 6 months of training if your instructor thinks you are ready. I'm not sure whether MMA competitions generally have similar novice divisions for beginning fighters. |