MMA is awesome. Glad you found a good gym.
Discussion
I am obsessed with kickboxing but I haven’t trained since before Covid 😔😔😔😔😔 I need to go back
I was primarily a striker when I started. Eventually, I transitioned to purely grappling. Nothing, to me, is as fun a no gi bjj.
I’m still in my striker phase but I’ve done some bjj here and there
I never got into rolling with gi, but no gi has always been a blast. We did mostly rolling with striking, which made it super fun and more realistic.
Striking I really enjoy, especially when takedowns are part of it. Sparring without the ability to takedown feels like too big of a handicap.
I think we did a few classes with takedowns but it was mostly kickboxing/Muay Thai. I’ve only done gi. I want to go to the nearby tenth planet for no gi
I'm a purple belt, and I still don't know how to tie my belt... That's how much gi I've done 🤣
My pure wrestling sucks. I need striking involved to hide my takedowns. It's probably why I like to strike with takedowns allowed. It's the only time I can make it happen lol.
Have you had the chance to do any competitions?
Bro purple belt is no joke, I’m a white belt with about ten hours 🤣
I haven’t competed, I was only going so consistently because my best friend was a coach and he would shame me if I tried to skip, so I’d do kickboxing 5 days, and for a couple months we would do BJJ a couple times a week and do one on one kickboxing between classes.
I stopped going because he moved to Alaska. I went a handful of times after that, but I really have to learn to motivate myself. I only really had maybe 8 months of consistent training. With so many hours I learned a lot in that time, but I never signed up for any matches despite my coaches wanting me to.
But now I work a lot more than I did then. Not a very good excuse to not go, I’m just lazy. I miss training
I haven’t trained much lately. Unfortunately, my gym closed down during COVID, and my coach moved out of the city to start farming.
The other gyms in my area don’t align with my schedule, and they don’t allow drop-ins.
These days, the only time I train is when I meet up with some guys from my old gym to train in their garage.
That sucks man. Covid lockdowns were criminal. Destroyed so many businesses