I am tring to find a type of martial arts.?

Question

PLease help I need to find a type of martial arts legal in the UFC and a good website that shows me how to do it.

Answer 1

you cant learn martial arts from a book or a website you definetally need an instructor especially if your planning on becoming a professional fighter, unless you enjoy getting your face pounded in

Answer 2

Learn how to box and start wrestling around with your friends. You also need to learn some Muay Thai kickboxing and Brazilian Jui Jitsu. If you can find a Mixed Martial Arts class around you they will teach you all of this.

Answer 3

TKD is the easiest, you do realize the people in those competitions have been training since they were little kids, you cant become a great martial artist on a whim, it takes blood sweat and tears

im serious about that XD in martial arts i have bled, i have sweated and ive cried from a serious brake :P

Answer 4

The UFC doesn't do 'real' martial arts.  They do street brawling with minimal martial art instruction.  A few effective martial art techniques are prohibited from being used in a UFC match.  The UFC mma stuff is really a 'work'.

Answer 5

Okay, first off, MMA is all bullshit. Those idiots get into the ring, throw a few punches and kicks, then they go to the groud and throw knees and elbows at eachother the entire match. IT DOESNT TAKE ANY SKILL. The only thing that those meat heads practice is how to take a hit.

About 99% of all the mma fighters in the world practice very little of ANY real martial art. And, MMA is very basic. So dont give me any of this bull c**p about how great the MMA fighters are, because i could see the very same kind of fighting a local bar between two drunken guys.

There is very little of any real martial art in any ufc match, it is little bits and pieces of various martial arts.

Answer 6

The UFC cage is not a good place for an inexperienced, fantasizing fighter. MMA fighters don't play, they fight for real. You either play their game or suffer the consequences.

Your better off trying your type of martial arts on the street or in a dojo that teaches fake fighting.

Answer 7

try kung fu

Answer 8

Try Kyokushin Karate.  It is a Japanese Karate.  I took it for 12 years and am a MMA fighter.  It is the Karate that George St. Piere practices.  It translates well to MMA because it is an extremely physical Karate that focuses more on what really works in a fight and we constantly train very physical full contact sparring sessions.  Kyokushin Karate trains a lot in close fighting with grabbing, punches, elbows, and knees.  Check it out.

Additonal info--

For those of you out there that obviously dont fight MMA, Karate translate extremely well to MMA fighting for a number of reasons.  The majority of the best MMA fighters have a backround in some type of Karate and thats where they started.  Take GSP or Chuck for instance, Kyokushin and Kempo respectively.  The reason is that you acquire metal stability and confidence, flexability, correct punching and kicking form and skills, and many other things from Karate.  Thats why almost all of the best MMA fighters got there start in a form of Karate and added to that with BJJ, Kickboxing, and Wrestling.  Also, you will not be able to learn anything from reading it in a book or on a computer screen.  You need real life experiance with an instructor.

Its pretty obvious that Revan is the kid in high school that was the whipping boy for everyone else.  There was a lot of jealousy in his statements.  MMA takes a lot of skill which anyone who has actually competed in the sport knows.  99% of normal people dont even know how to throw a punch.  Those bar fights are perfect examples of this, the fighting you see from those fights are absolute jokes.  Their fights are so pathetic they are funny to watch, they break their hands 1/2 the time because they have no idea how to punch.  We wont even start on defense and the other 100 things that go into professional MMA fighting.  Like I said, there are a lot of people out there that were the floor mat of their high school and now they are very jealous that the people that made them a floor mat are now popular and on T.V.

jswentwo,

Good to see someone else with some knowlege in MMA, I agree with your comments.

Answer 9

Anyone who thinks that the UFC is a "Work" is welcome to step into any of the Amateur MMA events around the country and try it out. It's not hard to get an MMA fight.

However, if you don't have several years in a good standup art like Muy Thai or Boxing, and a good ground art like Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, and preferably some Judo or Wrestling as well you will get smashed.

Kung Fu people, TKD people, most types of Karate people, all get smashed when they step into the MMA ring. Eye gouges, groin shots, and throat strikes won't change that.

Go find an MMA gym and get some real training.

Edit: In reference to Mike below me there, Kyokushin is the only Karate style I would recommend for an MMA stand up base. And far more of the top guys have Muy Thai or Wrestling backgrounds than Karate backgrounds. But if you look at it that way almost every MMA fighter has a TKD blackbelt, not because they are effective but because they are easy to get. I have one as well. It is much harder to find a good Kenpo school that trains with good contact sparring than to find a Muy Thai school that trains with good contact sparring. Not saying there are none out there, but they are rare. Just like a TKD school that practices with good contact, realistic sparring is rare.