If you wanted to do mma and you had to choose one fighting style you had to choose from would it be kickboxing

Question

or jjj?

Answer 1

mma :)***

Answer 2

If I HAD to choose, it would be kickboxing. That way, I'd have striking down.

Japanese Jujutsu isn't usually going to be what you're looking for to compete in MMA. It's usually more 'self-defense oriented,' incorporating things like small-joint manipulation, groin strikes, eye-gouges, and stuff like that. Furthermore, there's no guarantee that the JJJ dojo you find will do sparring, which is required to compete in MMA. Too many risks on that route.

The problem with kickboxing, however, is that you'll have no ground game. Without a ground game, you've got absolutely NO chance of surviving in mid-high level MMA competition. So if you want to compete in that sport, honestly, your best bet would be to find an MMA gym.

Answer 3

When the UFC started, no one was a mixed martial artist.  Many different styles came together to see what style was the best. It was a tournament with no weight classes, and little to no rules.  The smallest man in the tournament was Royce Gracie and he weighed only 170 lbs.  Most of the other fighters weighed over 200.  Gracie is a BJJ technician, and spent a total of about 3 minutes for 4 fights. His martial art style won out over strength, speed, and other styles.  Gracie went on to win two of the next three UFC tournaments. If not for an injury, he would most definitely been 4 for 4.  That should be proof enough that if you were to use only one style, BJJ is the most dominant individual martial art.

Answer 4

Here's what 100% of fans don't under stand.....

A kick trown using the shin shortens your kick length by about a foot to a foot and a half.  Don't believe me?  have some one hold your leg straight out in front of you and then hold your arm out in front of you while making a fist and you'll  notice that your fist and the area of your shin you're landing during a shin kick is exactly same.

Now think about "traditional american Kickboxing" where a kick is thrown using the heel of you foot, the top of your foot and the balls of the toes of your foot.  Now you extended your reach by at least a good 12 inches or more in length.  

You could argue, as many do, that the bones in the foot are too little to strike with, but you're missing the fact that your hand has small bones in it as well and you strike with it don't you? Not to mention that scientifically your feet hold your entire body's weight on them.

Muay thai and Jujtisu ( other than the thrust or side kicks ) eliminates a lot of valuable reach when it comes to throwing kicks all for the sake of landing the shin bone while throwing a kick.

The entire reason "Kickboxing" even used "traditional kicks" utilizing the heel, top and balls of the toes of the foot was to extend "reach".

I'd take "Kickboxing" any day over Brazilian Jujitsu based on this scientific aspect alone.

As a matter of fact I've been discussing leaving MMA altogether for "traditional american kickboxing" with one of my most loyal students.

"traditional american kickboxing" under the old rules in its sport such as:

All strikes must land at or above the opponent's waist

No strikes to kidney area of opponent

No sweeps of any kind

No shin contact ( rule strictly enforced "immediate disqualification" - anything beyond accidental )

No knee strikes ( rule strictly enforced "immedate disqualification" )

No elbow strikes ( rule strictly enforced "immediate disqualification" )

No clinching ( repeated violations will result in a one point deduction for fighter instigating clinch )

No grabbing a thrown kick in any manner

Is the way to go for any seeking contact sports, in my own opinion.  Many may disagree, but You can't argue with the scientific differences between BJJ and kickboxing.  Kickboxing's kicks and punches are way more accurate, effective and focused any day no matter who disagrees with this fact.  Not to mention that TAK makes all fighters land at least 6 power kicks per round in the ammy's and 8 power kicks per round in the pros unlike MMA where there is no "must land effectively" rule. Kickboxing is a art unrivaled in the modern day era as to where Jujisu of any kind foresakes the art of an effective atemiwaza in the aspect of kicks and punches.  Bring a MMA fighter to a "traditional american kickboxing" sport with TAK rules and he's done for!!

The next arguement could be that these TAK rules take away from the "realism" of fighting, but that old arguement is getting old quick.  Actually the rules of TAK make for a almost dealy fighter with a 100% accuracy rate as to where MMA you can be as sloppy as you wish in the aspect of striking.  Kickboxing practitioners are deadly accurate and their power is waaaayyy more focused than that of a MMA practitioner and that's a indisputable fact.  They don't even count thrown/landed in MMA as to where Kickboxing your accuracy rate is everything.  This is another reason why Tom, d**k and Harry all want to fight in MMA cage events it's too easy to do so everyone wants to try it out.

Here's how I see it - Jujitsu if you like saturday morning cartoons and coa-coa puffs for breakfast.

Kickboxing if you like being deadly accurate and focused and sports cars, naked women and machine guns.

Answer 5

neather go with mixed marshal arts