Advice from anyone taing a martial arts or mma

[brad1989]

I made a post before about starting to train in bjj or mma while i was recovering from surgery. I have been to all five places around my area Gracie JJ, Lloyd irvin mma, Yamaskai bjj, leo dalla bjj. The Yamasaki BJJ has two black belt instructors and seems like a great place to train bjj and can train for an hour and a half mon-sat. The Lloyd Irvin MMA place where they offer 2 no gi class a week j, one judo class a week, BJJ by Ryan hall a purple belt under Lloyd Irvin 2 times a week, wrestlign with ukranina olympic wrestler one time a week, and as many MT classes as i want so just doing a mixture of all that stuff whenever i want. I want to compete eventually in MMA so it would seem like the Lloyd Irvin place would be the palce to go to but what do you guys think about getting a base first(yamasaki bjj) or just going to differant classes throught the week and picking up technqieus from each for future MMA competition? To go with the first question if anyone had a MMA school like i described is it hard to remember techniques you learn from other classes throughout the week? Thanks in advance for any advice, I have to make up my mind by thursday if its MMA because they will waive the 150$ registration fee. Thanks again.

 

[Marvin Covar]

it's better to have a base, it ort of becomes your fallback when the other things you trained fail.

 

[fullerene]

Wrestling, judo and BJJ will all be useful when you grapple. Even a straight BJJ school will teach you takedowns and reversals. So "no" I don't think learning all three will harm your game, particularly since wrestling taught at a Lloyd Irvin school is probably different than wrestling taught on a high-school wrestling team and I'm sure they are conscious of not teaching bad habits like planting a wide wrestler's base and keeping the head up on the ground.

Ryan Hall has an excellent reputation and I've seen him compete before. He's young which might hurt his ability to teach, but his technique is very good--as good as you'll get from most black belts.

Actually it sounds like you like in an area with a lot of great schools and I didn't hear you complain about the cost so you'll probably be getting a fast-track grappling education whichever route you go.

 

[spicytunaroll]

All the instructors at Master Lloyd's School in Northern Virginia are awesome. Master Dalla is the Brazilian BJJ BB who trained Master Lloyd, so you can't beat that type of instruction either (obviously, his school is one of our affiliates).

I am assuming that you are looking in the NoVa area. If that is the case, you know that our NoVa school has 4 days of no Gi Grappling classes/ground sparring and 4 days of BJJ (and Judo) training. There are 7 days of Muay Thai training (with at least two classes each day if you include the Fight Team sparring classes, and more with Boxing).

There are several people who study both striking and grappling. It may be harder to excel at both in the same amount of time, just b/c everything is new and there aren't enough hours in the week to take as much training as you would like. But in the end, you will be getting a very well-rounded base of knowledge (most people gravitate toward one discipline as their favorite).

If you want to eventually compete in MMA, Jeff Ruth and the instructors at our school will help teach you their system for training and preparing for fights. We have the opportunity to spar in-house (MT), spar in matches with other schools (MT), fight amateur boxing and MT fights and participate in the grappling competitions in our area.

I'm obviously biased, but really enjoy training at Lloyd Irvin School in NoVa.

I hope this helps and good luck with your training.

 

[Spoonman7]

Go with what appeals to you most, LLoyd irvins sounds like a great place to train.

 

[oak99]

I made a post before about starting to train in bjj or mma while i was recovering from surgery. I have been to all five places around my area Gracie JJ, Lloyd irvin mma, Yamaskai bjj, leo dalla bjj. The Yamasaki BJJ has two black belt instructors and seems like a great place to train bjj and can train for an hour and a half mon-sat. The Lloyd Irvin MMA place where they offer 2 no gi class a week j, one judo class a week, BJJ by Ryan hall a purple belt under Lloyd Irvin 2 times a week, wrestlign with ukranina olympic wrestler one time a week, and as many MT classes as i want so just doing a mixture of all that stuff whenever i want. I want to compete eventually in MMA so it would seem like the Lloyd Irvin place would be the palce to go to but what do you guys think about getting a base first(yamasaki bjj) or just going to differant classes throught the week and picking up technqieus from each for future MMA competition? To go with the first question if anyone had a MMA school like i described is it hard to remember techniques you learn from other classes throughout the week? Thanks in advance for any advice, I have to make up my mind by thursday if its MMA because they will waive the 150$ registration fee. Thanks again.

Yamasaki and Leo are recommended if you want to focus on groundwork and establish your base. If you are interested in MMA, then it is a no-brainer to train with Ruth and company at the Lloyd Irvin affiliate. Keep in mind that although the gi-bjj classes are taught by a purple belt, you've got no-gi classes far more often.

I'm planning on switching over there from my current places later this year (currently I'm doing western boxing and gi-BJJ at two separate places)... so all I've done is talked to some folks and sat in on some classes, but I was very impressed.

 

[brad1989]

thanks alot for the advice guys

 

[brad1989]

Just signed up for the grappling plan at Lloyd irvin everything excpet muay thai can't wait got first ever class in judo this sunday, thanks again for all the advice