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MMA Beginners Advice

  • 08-04-2013 10:43pm
    #1
    Bulky Boy
    Site Banned Posts: 79 ✭✭


    How easy/hard is it to get into this sport. I am very fit. Looking to gain a bit more poundage but can handle myself well


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  • #2
    Dave 101
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭Dave 101


    Bulky Boy wrote: »
    How easy/hard is it to get into this sport. I am very fit. Looking to gain a bit more poundage but can handle myself well

    join a club and ask the coach about competing


  • #3
    Clive
    Registered Users Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭Clive


    Very easy if you're in an area with a club nearby. Just give them a ring and go to their next class for beginners. The MMA forum might be your best bet.


  • #4
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,001 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Also, its called mixed martial arts. Cage fighting is a sort of frown upon as a name for the sport due to the media presented it in the past.


  • #5
    cowzerp
    Registered Users Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Bulky Boy wrote: »
    How easy/hard is it to get into this sport. I am very fit. Looking to gain a bit more poundage but can handle myself well

    1. 1st off I've never seen 2 cages fighting!

    B. If you're looking to gain weight do weights and eat more, if you want to learn to fight with skill get to your nearest MMA club

    What area are you based so we can advise what's available to you?

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • #6
    DavidPhelan
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭DavidPhelan


    cowzerp wrote: »
    1. 1st off I've never seen 2 cages fighting!

    B. If you're looking to gain weight do weights and eat more, if you want to learn to fight with skill get to your nearest MMA club

    What area are you based so we can advise what's available to you?

    Sorry but had to say it; After 1 comes 2. B usually follows A. Numbers and letters are hard!:D


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  • #7
    Jonah42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭Jonah42


    Hate it when people call it "cage fighting."

    You wouldn't call boxing "ring fighting" or Judo "Mat fighting."

    As for the op's question, google MMA clubs in your area and go check it out.


  • #8
    cowzerp
    Registered Users Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    DavidPhelan wrote: »
    Sorry but had to say it; After 1 comes 2. B usually follows A. Numbers and letters are hard!:D

    Irony seems lost on you!

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • #9
    pablohoney87
    Registered Users Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭pablohoney87


    Thread title changed/
    Thread moved to MMA


  • #10
    Bulky Boy
    Site Banned Posts: 79 ✭✭Bulky Boy


    Can you make much money doing it ?


  • #11
    pablohoney87
    Registered Users Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭pablohoney87


    Oh dear
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056919197

    Not unless youre prepared to make great sacrifice to make it to the top.


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  • #12
    G Spark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭G Spark


    Bulky Boy wrote: »
    ...but can handle myself well

    You don't seem to realise the amount of hard work & dedication to training in the technical aspects of MMA it takes to even get to fight as an amateur?

    What do you think qualifies you as being able to "handle yourself well"?

    Sorry to sound like I'm interviewing you for a job, but I'm genuinely curious as it seems you're fairly ignorant (I mean that in the least offensive way possible) to the sport of MMA. Sound.


  • #13
    Bulky Boy
    Site Banned Posts: 79 ✭✭Bulky Boy


    G Spark wrote: »
    You don't seem to realise the amount of hard work & dedication to training in the technical aspects of MMA it takes to even get to fight as an amateur?

    What do you think qualifies you as being able to "handle yourself well"?

    Sorry to sound like I'm interviewing you for a job, but I'm genuinely curious as it seems you're fairly ignorant (I mean that in the least offensive way possible) to the sport of MMA. Sound.

    I can handle myself in a self defence manner naturally without training. I have pummelled a number of lads wii deserved it with ease on a more than 1 on 1 situation where I was te one outnumbered


  • #14
    pablohoney87
    Registered Users Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭pablohoney87


    Bulky Boy wrote: »
    I can handle myself in a self defence manner naturally without training. I have pummelled a number of lads wii deserved it with ease on a more than 1 on 1 situation where I was te one outnumbered

    And on that note I'm out


  • #15
    _oveless_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 135 ✭✭_oveless_


    Just to go off track slightly but I always find it ironic that most mma fans always say they hate the term "cage fighting", and yet nearly every promotion uses the word "cage" in the title.


  • #16
    Clive
    Registered Users Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭Clive


    _oveless_ wrote: »
    Just to go off track slightly but I always find it ironic that most mma fans always say they hate the term "cage fighting", and yet nearly every promotion uses the word "cage" in the title.

    Enclosed Fighting Area Heroes doesn't have quite the same ring to it though.


  • #17
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    Two Competitors Fighting in an Enclosed Matted Mesh Fenced Arena or TCFEMMFA for short...


  • #18
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users Posts: 12,427 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    RoboRat wrote: »
    Two Competitors Fighting in an Enclosed Matted Mesh Fenced Arena or TCFEMMFA for short...

    Perfect.
    I like the way it rolls off the tongue.


  • #19
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    That's what she said last night... badooom tish

    Im here all week...


  • #20
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users Posts: 12,427 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    RoboRat wrote: »
    That's what she said last night... badooom tish

    Im here all week...

    I'll get your coat......


  • #21
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,118 ✭✭✭✭Jimmy Bottlehead


    Bulky Boy wrote: »
    I can handle myself in a self defence manner naturally without training. I have pummelled a number of lads wii deserved it with ease on a more than 1 on 1 situation where I was te one outnumbered

    One thing MMA teaches you is humbleness - you quickly learn that no matter how big or strong or hard or capable you think you are, there's always someone else who could knock seven bells out of you without breaking a sweat.


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  • #22
    cowzerp
    Registered Users Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    _oveless_ wrote: »
    Just to go off track slightly but I always find it ironic that most mma fans always say they hate the term "cage fighting", and yet nearly every promotion uses the word "cage" in the title.


    Cages can't fight, It's a stupid term-It is done in a cage so mentioning cage to get people to have a clue what it is we do is sometimes needed, I'm off to do some ring Boxing-Laters!

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • #23
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    Cages can't fight, It's a stupid term-It is done in a cage so mentioning cage to get people to have a clue what it is we do is sometimes needed, I'm off to do some ring Boxing-Laters!

    Meet the next womens boxing champ....











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  • #24
    Bulky Boy
    Site Banned Posts: 79 ✭✭Bulky Boy


    Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »
    One thing MMA teaches you is humbleness - you quickly learn that no matter how big or strong or hard or capable you think you are, there's always someone else who could knock seven bells out of you without breaking a sweat.

    You need confidence I succeed when engaging in combat with anyone


  • #25
    Bulky Boy
    Site Banned Posts: 79 ✭✭Bulky Boy


    Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »
    One thing MMA teaches you is humbleness - you quickly learn that no matter how big or strong or hard or capable you think you are, there's always someone else who could knock seven bells out of you without breaking a sweat.

    You need confidence to succeed when engaging in combat with anyone


  • #26
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,118 ✭✭✭✭Jimmy Bottlehead


    Bulky Boy wrote: »
    You need confidence to succeed when engaging in combat with anyone

    True, but confidence isn't worth a damn without ability.

    You might be confident, but go for a roll / spar with Conor McGregor, Norman Parke, Cathal Pendred, Chris Fields or any amount of high-level guys and you find out that it's a different ball-game.

    I'm not slating you, all I'm saying is that claiming to have beaten up a few arseholes on the street means absolutely nothing in an MMA gym.


  • #27
    Bulky Boy
    Site Banned Posts: 79 ✭✭Bulky Boy


    Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »
    True, but confidence isn't worth a damn without ability.

    You might be confident, but go for a roll / spar with Conor McGregor, Norman Parke, Cathal Pendred, Chris Fields or any amount of high-level guys and you find out that it's a different ball-game.

    I'm not slating you, all I'm saying is that claiming to have beaten up a few arseholes on the street means absolutely nothing in an MMA gym.

    That's why I am getting started on training diet and getting inked


  • #28
    Dave 101
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭Dave 101


    Bulky Boy wrote: »
    That's why I am getting started on training diet and getting inked

    Getting inked increases your game by 50% instantly....

    Your having a laugh really so I don't think anybody woll respond to anymore if ur posts


  • #29
    Bulky Boy
    Site Banned Posts: 79 ✭✭Bulky Boy


    Taking tattoo pain means you can taking fighting pain when required


  • #30
    rain on
    Registered Users Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    Get your missus to beat you around the place with a two by four for a bit instead, it's cheaper and you won't have to take time off traning while it heals like you do with tattoos. All the pain, all the gain


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  • #31
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    Nobody mentioned the mandatory Mohawk? Seriously, since I got mine, my game has increased ten fold.

    Plus DO NOT forget to wear Tapout T-shirts everywhere, people WILL BE SCARED. I recently wore mine out clubbing and I went up to a 6 foot 5 Polish lad who was with his hottie missus and I just got dug into her. He knew straight away that I was NOT to be messed with, he even bought me a drink and offered to drive us home and promised to wait in the car until I was done.

    Best of luck with the training, in no time you will be the man that men fear and women lust after.


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