Anyone get intimidated..

estebancambias

when they walk into certain places that do mma? I decided i would give mma a shot, I dont really like watching pride or ufc or k1 but i like doing it, but when i walked in people were giving me these stares and then when it started people were like your no good, I was like how can i be good its my first week. I got a compliment from the teacher guy, he was like this kid is flexible, so i was chuffed

Valmont

maybe a little bit of paranoia?;) I couldn't imagine anyone telling a beginner they were no good. Besides being mean, you probably won't get much new people coming to train. at least I've never seen it. The 'fighting' atmosphere is intimadating at first when you're not acquainted to it but after a while it's grand

dlofnep

estebancambias wrote:

when they walk into certain places that do mma? I decided i would give mma a shot, I dont really like watching pride or ufc or k1 but i like doing it, but when i walked in people were giving me these stares and then when it started people were like your no good, I was like how can i be good its my first week. I got a compliment from the teacher guy, he was like this kid is flexible, so i was chuffed

I think you're just being a little paranoid. It's not Apollo Creed's gym. You don't need the eye of the tiger. It's nobody's place to tell you how good you are or how good you aren't, only you're instructor. Don't worry too much about it, I've never come across anybody like this ever in MMA - Infact, it's usually quite the opposite.

Roper

Where did you train and maybe someone from that gym can clear up the misunderstanding. I HAVE met people who are like that, they're everywhere, in jobs, in gyms, in schools, so maybe there was one asshole on the mat. Generally you find that people lose their ego pretty fast when they train MMA, if they don't, they leave so you might have just met the one idiot that night.

uberpixie

estebancambias wrote:

but when i walked in people were giving me these stares and then when it started people were like your no good, I was like how can i be good its my first week. I got a compliment from the teacher guy, he was like this kid is flexible, so i was chuffed

Don't worry about it.

Takes time to get settled into a new club. It is very daunting at first.

Give it a month or so and if you still think the guys you are training with are arseholes and you don't like the atmosphere of the club then leave.:D

ch252

I always hear the for such a rough sport the people are very nice, which in my case is true. In most clubs if someone said that there would be a instructor or someone else to set them straight, stick it out and if it gets no better just change club

fatal

what you may also find daunting about it is that one minute a guy may be trying to teach you a technique but the next minute you may be rolling with the very same guy and he may be a completely different person to the one that was teaching you the technique only a minute earlier......

Like roper said,the guys that appear to be dickheads usually leave fairly soon and you are left with the guys that want to work with you as long are you are willing to learn

ElSeano93

ha ha don't let the persons belt colour or dirty stares get the better of you. im a green belt in shotokan karate, black belts (not all the time) can be easy to fight because they think they can intimidate you with the colour of their belt, they'll think that the fight will be a breeze, because you're less expericenced and don't know as many complicated moves. this happened to me at a competition one time. what did i do i mowed through them, all 8 of them, absolutely slaughtered them, and it was full contact, so i really got my point across if ya know what i mean !;), that's why i love the simplicity of not being a black belt, just because some of them have a black belt and know more than you, they think they can automatically apply that to a fight, and they migt not be able to. they're minds are so filled with complicated moves that, they fall for simple moves that should be second nature to them.

dlofnep

ElSeano93 wrote:

ha ha don't let the persons belt colour or dirty stares get the better of you. im a green belt in shotokan karate, black belts (not all the time) can be easy to fight because they think they can intimidate you with the colour of their belt, they'll think that the fight will be a breeze, because you're less expericenced and don't know as many complicated moves. this happened to me at a competition one time. what did i do i mowed through them, all 8 of them, absolutely slaughtered them, and it was full contact, so i really got my point across if ya know what i mean !;), that's why i love the simplicity of not being a black belt, just because some of them have a black belt and know more than you, they think they can automatically apply that to a fight, and they migt not be able to. they're minds are so filled with complicated moves that, they fall for simple moves that should be second nature to them.

that doesn't happen in mma, because generally - nobody cares about belts. if tommy tiernan trained martial arts, he'd say "What care I for flashy kicks and complicated moves!?"

The Bored One

Hmmm. To be honest I can't remember training with any a**holes over the last year. Anyone who could have had ego problems or a bad attitude didn't stick round long enough for it to develop, mostly been alot of fun laid back guys.
What about the rest of you, can you remember any you've encountered in MMA training?

Colm_OReilly

MMA can be an intimidating sport, and training in a club can be an intimidating environment. Because the people all know each other they'll have their own in jokes and routines at the start of class, which you're not used to or part of yet.

If it's a large class it might be hard if the instructor/coach hasn't seen you. Also we tend to get a rake of questions before class starts so we're answering them.

As for the people training with you, they may have been on an ego trip (and yes, there are egos in MMA) and that was unfortunate. Hopefully it was an isolated incident.

For your own part, did you accept that it would take a few classes to get the feel of the class? Did you introduce yourself to your training partner and explain your situation? This can help. Sometimes as well, I've noticed beginners who through excitement or whatever bull into techniques and rush through things.