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I made a thread not so long ago about me wanting to train MMA. I've been training Muay Thai for like 8 months but I wanted to try MMA and I had my first class today.
It was with a professional MMA fighter (He fights in One FC)
Here is what happened.
He told me to change my Muay Thai stance. I always stand in a traditional Muay Thai stance, I like to distribute my weight like 20% on my left lead leg and 80% on my right leg. He told me to make it 50% 50%.
He also told me to work on my Jab. My jab isn't powerful because my lead leg is always bouncing up and down, I like to mix it with the teep but he told me forget that.
What I really thought was interesting was how he was using angles. I never did that.
Anyway, I don't know if I should go for MMA or focus on Muay Thai and try to master just one style. I knew that the striking is different in MMA but I never imagined it would be that much different.
Almost all of the techniques I like to use he's telling me not to use. (But I did find the angle thing quite interesting)
It was with a professional MMA fighter (He fights in One FC)
Here is what happened.
He told me to change my Muay Thai stance. I always stand in a traditional Muay Thai stance, I like to distribute my weight like 20% on my left lead leg and 80% on my right leg. He told me to make it 50% 50%.
He also told me to work on my Jab. My jab isn't powerful because my lead leg is always bouncing up and down, I like to mix it with the teep but he told me forget that.
What I really thought was interesting was how he was using angles. I never did that.
Anyway, I don't know if I should go for MMA or focus on Muay Thai and try to master just one style. I knew that the striking is different in MMA but I never imagined it would be that much different.
Almost all of the techniques I like to use he's telling me not to use. (But I did find the angle thing quite interesting)