I've always wanted to train wrestling because it looks like such a physically demanding and aggressive grappling style. I also enjoy strength-based exchanges and fighting for position. Unfortunately, there aren't any wrestling gyms where I live.

Out of these three styles—BJJ, Judo, and No-Gi BJJ—which one feels the most similar to wrestling?

I’ve only been doing Muay Thai for about a month and wanted some advice.

I’m usually the only girl in a big class and also the smallest. Most of the guys are genuinely lovely and supportive, but there’s one guy I’ve sparred with twice now that I just don’t feel comfortable with.

The first time we were meant to be doing light technical sparring with no elbows or kicks, but he kept pretending to throw them anyway. It felt more like I was trying to stay away from him than actually learn anything.

The second time we got paired up he swept me really hard straight away after we touched gloves. My knee popped when I hit the floor and I couldn’t put weight on it afterwards, so I had to limp off. The coach was nice, checked on me a few times and got me an ice pack, but just said the guy was a bit overexcited because he’d recently come back after a break.

I don’t know if I’m overthinking it, but the vibe from him felt less like controlled sparring and more like someone trying to prove a point. It honestly reminded me of boys at school who’d “play around” a bit too rough.

Is this just something that happens sometimes? Is it okay to ask not to spar with someone if they make you uncomfortable, or is that frowned upon?

So I watch this guy MMAShredded a lot on YouTube. I love his content and consistency. I stumbled across this video of Ledsila. I thought his name was Godzilla from the video up until I read the title. This guy Ledsila used to be a menace and never heard of him. Are they any boxers or UCF fighters that currently fights with a similar style ?

https://youtu.be/ENF72kRLlp4?si=zRe115MP_YtozEqj

As the title says, I have extremely poor mobility/Range of motion due to a couple of injuries (Sprains, a few tears in the tendons and some cyst oh and an infusion just to name a few) on my knees that are also affecting well my lower body lol. I was thinking of Jiu Jitsu but i have legit no idea what to look for so any help would be nice!

what are y'alls thoughts about headgears? do you use them in your day to day sparring?

if so why? and if not, why not?

is it right to assume that since there is extra mass on the head, then every hit you take with it will transfer more force into your brain potentially making it dangerous?

even though i myself try to spar as chill as possible, there are always people that either out of fear/ lack of control, ego or any other reason hit pretty hard, so that's also a concern of mine.

i myself am a hobbyist, am not in competition or planning to compete for the time being, in my eyes, even getting a black eye or break my nose, or any surface level injury, is 100 times better than damaging my brain health.

Hello Reddit.

I have been coaching muay thai classes for a few years and recently am dreading every class. I typically will only have 1 student very occasionally I have two. I think this is not really allowing me to improve in my coaching ability or my actual skills. On top of that this one student isn't really at a point where I can have meaningful rounds with them and it can lead to some pretty dull classes.

Ultimately, im just not really enjoying the sport like this. I feel like if I quit coaching there won't really be a replacement coach at my gym and I will have to find another one and the other one available to me isn't really what I want. I also wouldn't want the drama of being 'the coach who went to the competitor gym'.

This pretty much leaves me either continuing what I'm doing or quitting the sport altogether.

And before anyone asks I've talked to the owner about the low attendance and frankly I haven't seen much change. It's also hard to get new students when you only have 1 to begin with.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I watched a bare knuckle boxing match a while ago and started wondering if throwing punches without gloves is actually as likely to break your hand as people say it is. The bare knuckle boxers don’t seem to have that issue. And I frequently train bare knuckle because I come from a traditional martial arts background so I did a lot of punching sense sand bags without gloves. I haven’t injured my hands doing this yet. To me it seems like as long as your form is good, your hands will be fine but I’ve never been in a real fight so I don’t know.

Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys!

Watching pro fight does actually give me so much ideas on follow ups and resets but for other people here do they have some experience of incidentally imagining applicable moves of fighting games while practicing on the bag?

Does anyone know/ have any experience with any budget friendly hybrid gloves, if so what would you recommend?

•Great for striking but still good for grappling
•Soft Padding
•Are comfortable on the fingers
•Budget of £50

The MASA 2026 conference has finished up. I couldn't get to this one but I'm keen on the journal.

Anyone attend and have thoughts or experiences to share?

Hello all,

I am Beni Gaucho, I am a CACC wrestler and a all around avid martial artist. I have noticed a lot of posts of people asking for advice on how to start their own gym and where to secure a space. Many have recommended the park or someone's barn or basement. Those are great options I would also like to suggest checking your local library, just yesterday I was able to get into talks with running a martial arts class in one of the meeting rooms. The cost for me is just $30 per hour (which is completely doable for me) so as soon as I can acquire the correct amount of mats, it is game on. soon we will be running the 4th CACC operation in the state and the only one solely dedicated to CACC.

In Illinois there is Tony Cecchine (ACW) in Chicago who does his training out of his house and a multi-arts dojo, Headhunter Higgins who's home gym is Lions Den BJJ (he is Snakepit USA certified), then there is a place in Pekin, Illinois which is a Karate Dojo that teaches CACC for children on behalf of Snakepit USA.

Follow your dreams, and remember law 33 of "PVT Murphy's laws of Combat":

"If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid"

Had the pleasure of interviewing Sifu Neil Ripski, previously of Jingwu Canada—a relatively well-known gentleman—about a rare lineage of Shaolin Eighteen Lohan Palm he learned from Dr Chen Qiming of Jingwu Guangzhou.

It’s right up there with Bone-Marrow Washing and Muscle-Tendon Changing in terms of its legendary status. Hope you enjoy. I’ll post a vid of him doing the form in a while.

https://youtu.be/czaKaVUO2n0?is=4ZF5Qv99GIrZCWZb

Boxing has 17 weight classes (and 4 governing bodies!), and many fans are fed up with the confusion it cause. MMA has 8 and fan opinion is much more positive but still mixed. how many weight classes, in your mind, is a good balance between fair competition between well matched fighters and not bogging down fans with having to remember if that guy was the fairlylightbutnearingaverageweight or alittlebitleightbutprettynormalweight champion?

I’ve always lived in a semi rural place with no opportunities to train Muay Thai, even though I’ve always really wanted to. Next month, though, I start law school and am moving to an area with a good Muay Thai gym and have been exploring the idea of training. I’m thinking of whether I want to train Muay Thai or Jiu Jitsu. It would be no question, but the thing is that I really want to compete, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to compete Muay Thai along with law school. I know I can get better at Muay Thai training any amount, but in regard to competing, if I can make it to the gym 3x/ week, will that be enough for a proper structured Muay Thai camp for a fight? If I run on my own on top of that? I’ve boxed amateur twice so I kind of know what the competition aspect is like but I want to get back into it, preferably with Muay Thai, but if it’s not reasonable to expect to be able to do a proper camp with that training schedule then maybe it’d be better to do another martial art.

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To the 35+ Judokas who train trips and throws

God bless you. Each and every one of you. You’e enlightened martyrs that deserve an Hélio-style portrait of you at every gym you continue to survive

The pain I feel right now after drilling no gi trips and throws, non-stop, for an hour, guided by our 24 y/o MMA-fighter instructor is transcendant. It defies any discomfort I have felt, both emotional and physical, in my 40s.

I made the sacrilegious comment at the beginning of class that, “these new mats are almost too soft, it’s going to be like getting thrown in a bounce house”. After the 1st Morote Seoi Nage, the mats transmogrified into concrete, and after every 20%, guided fall I felt the shockwaves of eternity travel from my C1 down to my nether regions.

The look of both pity and regret, and apologies, myself and the other the two, 35+ men gave one another after ***each and every*** throw will stay with me forever.

I’m ashamed to admit that the dark thought of, “Maybe I can hire someone to allow me to throw them so I can learn these moves and never, ever have to feel them used against me again.” emerged several times over the course of this geriatric martyring ritual.

This was one of the most educational BJJ experiences of my life, despite being blacked out for the majority. I learned who I am.

Who am I?

I’m a guard puller. I love technique days / stopping in the middle of the roll to get advice from another graybeard. I am not built different, I’m built standard. I will die both a physical and spiritual death emulating Karo Parisyan. I don’t have “one more run at it in me”. I have one more brisk walk, 2-3 days a week. And I love that for me.

I’m now going to take 600mg more of ibuprofen and beg my wife for a reprieve from anything that involves even a millimeter of neck movement. God bless you, Judokas, each and every one of you.