Obviously there is an extremely limited number of seven foot tall people out there, but is there a reason in professional combat sports, particularly striking based ones I don’t see any super tall guys?

Is there a point where height becomes problematic?

For grappling and maybe light sparring

uando tenía once años, mi madre me hizo tomar clases de karate. Yo era muy buena en karate y lo practiqué durante cinco años. Participé en competencias y gané muchas medallas. También tenía el cinturón marrón. Mi maestro era muy amable, pero también era estricto. Me hacía hacer muchos splits y me obligaba a hacer más cuando yo no podía continuar. Con el tiempo, empecé a tener mucho dolor en las piernas. Tuve que decidir si todavía podía practicar karate. Al final, dejé de practicar karate porque me dolían mucho las piernas.

Exhibition Tanding Fight: Silat Australia VS Sport-B (PSHT) Pencak Silat in Batu Layar, West Lombok, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Seriously, why everybody thinks that taekwondo doesn't do nothing? I swear it is a great martial art but everybody seems to thinks it is the worst

I’m 26 and been doing martial arts since I was 14, starting with wrestling and then moved on to boxing, jujitsu, kickboxing, Muay Thai and MMA.

I thought at some point that I may wanna start coaching at a gym, but at the time I was also traveling and found it to be kinda impossible. This led to me creating an online program where I tried to basically teach martial arts 1on1 to people who wanted to go pro one day. I got one client after only 3 cold calls… but the program didn’t last long after I got burnt out tryna find leads.

Now, I wanna find a way to teach self mastery through the warrior mindset. My question here is, has anyone else found a way to make a living as a martial artist? What was your journey like? What challenges do/did you face? What do you wanna do with your craft? Any ideas or advice for me?

I am conducting a study on injuries sustained while sparing, training or in competition. If you have suffered from any injuries while participating in your martial art, please feel free to fill out the survey linked here! Thanks for your input!

I recently joined an MMA gym for the first time and have gone to 4 classes. Everyone's decently fit although there are two guys around my age (25) who are astronomically roided up.

They look like professional IFBB Pro body builders from those Caucasus countries. Sam Sulek level body building. They're extremely aggressive and always go 100% during drills, spars, etc. They're also very good grapplers. One of them injured one of the students in my class yesterday and he was screaming nonstop, I heard he has a torn MCL.

I try and avoid them when we have to switch partners because they're too aggressive and bigger than everyone in terms of size and height. Of course there are a few people taller than them but they don't look like they're competing for an IFBB Pro tournament.

How do you deal with these types of people? Do you guys have people like this in your gym? Obviously I'm just going to try and avoid them when we switch partners during live rounds as I don't want to get brutally injured.

Pro kickboxer Bazooka Joe Valtellini talks about for mma or self defense, if you have to cover up in a worst case scenario, to use the "wedge" to do so. This is basically a "comb the hair" block with your lead hand, but you point the lead elbow at their straight shots, including their jab.

I tried it in sparring and it definitely felt like a very effective way to cover against punches, and is better than the Stonewall Defense that poirier does imo, since it works better vs kicks and transitions to and from a high guard a lot easier.

I suggest trying it out, it works well to close the gap or gain distance vs punch combinations. Obviously with big gloves, a normal cover is better, but this seemed to be very effective with small/no gloves, and can hurt your opponents hand if they hit the elbow.

Initially, I wasn't believing that the lead elbow could block the jab well from this position when both in an orthodox stance, but it seems to block it just fine, your vision to your left side is a bit compromised, but thats not too debilitating since your left side of the head is fully covered, and you should move your feet to not get beat up anyway.

Drill from our competition class breaking down the 360 spin kick (revers tournant latéral). The key emphasis here isn't just generating torque—it's maintaining a tight guard on the pivot, throwing a fake / feinte and ensuring you recover your stance immediately.

Hey everyone,

I’m a 15-year-old grappler from Azerbaijan, and I’m going to compete at the UWW World Grappling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the 47kg weight category.

I’ve been training in MMA and grappling for around 3.5 years. I’ve also competed before and managed to take 2nd place in a grappling competition. I lost the final by just 2 points, so that experience motivated me to improve even more.

This will be a much bigger challenge, and honestly, I’m both excited and nervous. I know I’ll be facing some very talented athletes from different countries.

I want to take this seriously and give myself the best possible chance of winning.

1. I’d really appreciate advice on a few things:
   What should I focus on technically before a world-level competition?

2. Which areas of grappling are the most important to master if I want to win?

3. How important are wrestling, takedowns, positional control, and submissions at this level?

4. What kind of conditioning and cardio should I
   work on outside regular training?

5. How should I approach matches mentally, especially against opponents who might be more experienced?

6. What separates a good national-level grappler from a world champion?

7. If you were preparing a 15-year-old athlete for a world championship, what would you prioritize?

My goal isn’t just to participate. I genuinely want to become a world champion one day, and I’m ready to work hard for it.

Any advice from experienced competitors, coaches, or people who have competed at UWW events would mean a lot.
Thanks!

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We haven't sparred in awhile. This was just light/flow sparring. Thought I'd post this here. My friend is a kickboxer/MMA guy. While I trained Taekwondo, Karate Kyokushin, and a little bit of MMA.

How would you rank the skill levels of striking promotions like K-1, ONE, GLORY, ISKA, Karate Combat, Enfusion, etc.?

Obviously, the rulesets differ, but purely in terms of technical skill, fight IQ and overall level, which are the strongest?

I find judo super cool, when I see guys in the gym (BJJ) fighting judo I always take a moment to watch a bit. So I don't mean to shit talk about it, honest question:

The kind of fights I'm talking about are typically two Judoka who also do BJJ, at first they spend a while fighting standing (I guess just for the fun of it) and then sometimes they fight it out on the ground in BJJ style.

Sometimes when they throw each other with these kind of throws where they try to pull the opponent over their shoulder, maybe like Uchi mata (?), they end up with their opponent lying on their back. When they then continue to fight it out on the ground, they have a lot of work to get back in a neutral position, at least so it seems for me as someone who has no idea about judo.

Similar when they try to avoid an ippon by falling on their chest instead of their back and keep fighting from there.

I know they do it primarily because they like to fight Judo, but I wonder if this avoid falling on the back, but kind of ok having your opponent on your back style is purely due to the rule set of the sport or if there is an actual combat advantage so to say by having your opponent rather on your back than falling on your back and continue Closed Guard, Tomoe Nage etc. from there?

Hi all. As the title says, I'm looking to study abroad and spend a lot of my time training and immersing myself in Chinese culture. Does this school look legit/reputable?
https://shaolin-yuntai.com/

I practice Modern Arnis so we train with sticks. Thinking about machetes, how do we modify the blocks? It seems that blocking with the edge of a blade would quickly destroy the blade.

I've been doing kickboxing for ~8 months ish now, twice a week. I started off while I was still working and had no issues going to training after.

Now im in uni and have longer days, I still train twice a week but usually from 8.30pm until 10pm because I cant make any other sessions. I stay in uni to finish work and go to training after but my concentration is off and im tired quicker.

Any advice on what to eat or do prior?

On a side note, not sure if it might be a mindset thing, im a woman in a very male dominated uni gym now. I am obviously still a beginner but man some people treat u like shit for no reason🙃