BJJ & MMA Training

[pstevens]

Hey folks... It's been a while since I've been on here. I've been away at college, but still training BJJ and MMA. Which leads me to this post. My attitude towards MA, particularly BJJ has changed since some friends and I developed a MMA Club. Basically, we have wrestlers, boxers, judokas, boxers, but mostly BJJers.

What I noticed right away was that the BJJ guys, while great starting from knees, didn't have a clue when standing (including myself) against striking. Thus, I began evaluating my game... After nearly 4 years of BJJ, most of my training has been from knees, against little or no strikes, and wearing a gi most of the time. That's the problem some of us BJJ guys had at our club... We assumed we were just like the BJJ guys who fight in Pride, UFC, or other NHB. But those guys are athletes, cross-training and conditioning everyday.

Since then, I'm not the arrogant BJJer I used to be. I learn from everyone and my game has improved drastically. I also try to share my own insights. I believe it was Roy Harris that stated that despite it claims, BJJ has been improved because MMA. BJJ has learned from other styles as well... That's what I keep in mind.

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by pstevens

Hey folks... It's been a while since I've been on here. I've been away at college, but still training BJJ and MMA. Which leads me to this post. My attitude towards MA, particularly BJJ has changed since some friends and I developed a MMA Club. Basically, we have wrestlers, boxers, judokas, boxers, but mostly BJJers.

What I noticed right away was that the BJJ guys, while great starting from knees, didn't have a clue when standing (including myself) against striking. Thus, I began evaluating my game... After nearly 4 years of BJJ, most of my training has been from knees, against little or no strikes, and wearing a gi most of the time. That's the problem some of us BJJ guys had at our club... We assumed we were just like the BJJ guys who fight in Pride, UFC, or other NHB. But those guys are athletes, cross-training and conditioning everyday.

Since then, I'm not the arrogant BJJer I used to be. I learn from everyone and my game has improved drastically. I also try to share my own insights. I believe it was Roy Harris that stated that despite it claims, BJJ has been improved because MMA. BJJ has learned from other styles as well... That's what I keep in mind.

That why I keep saying that BJJ is not MMA.
The fact is that MMA/Vale tudo is a sport of its own, BJJ is just a platform you can base your strategies/skills on for MMA.
The average BJJ instructor teach competition BJJ but not vale tudo BUT in each respected BJJ club, there is a tough guy that want to prove his BJJ skills in MMA.
That the reason I will advise people to train under a Brasilian Instructor that will be able to train/prepare a student to vale tudo.
My instructor will only accept his own top students for vale tudo training: it is something very special and not everyone is welcome to the private class: to my surprise, the rest of the BJJ team members are not even allowed to watch training.

[CKD]

Welcome back Psstevens. MMA is its own sport with its own unique strategies and tatics. This is a good article about it http://www.grapplearts.com/Sport-Spe...A-Training.htm MMA is not nearly a big mix of muay thai, wrestling, and bjj because each art needs to be modified for the mma arena. In later posts I could go into more detail if anyone wants to. This article goes into it a little bit also http://www.morrisnoholdsbarred.co.uk/intronhb.htm I would suggest people search more of his site to fidn more info.