Intro and a Few Questions

[Albo]

Hello,

Ive been searching the forum for a while now and got a lot of questions answered and decided to make an account now. Im 16, 5'10", 170lbs, currently live in LA, originally from Eastern Europe. Im into bikes and cars and have a Big Turbo sr20det 240sx, and a gixxer 750.

Im pretty much independent (I pay my own bills, buy my own stuff..etc) so I decided to take this year off and not play sports or anything to work so that my senior year of highschool Ill have plenty of money/time to do whatever I want. With that said, I used to go to a local gym and managed to only go for 3 weeks because I was almost broke and needed to start working again. Next school year I plan on going back to the gym and training though since I wont have to work.

During the course of these 3 weeks I never learned anything that had to do with stand up. Everything that I know about stand up is what ive taught myself through watching fights and videos. Ill post a video of my stand up against a BOB dummy once my wrist heals (Sprained it) to ask and see if im doing anything wrong so I lose the habit of it and train right until I can get back to the gym. With all of this said here are my questions:

1)Since I dont have time to go to a gym would it be a good idea to buy a double ended back and work on my accuracy and timing?

2) How do you fight against a really aggressive fighter that sprints at you at the start of the fight and overwhelms you with punches?

3)Whats the most popular form of defense from punches in MMA?

4)Ive currently got a BOB dummy, and of course simple stuff like mouthgaurd, cup, handwraps, gloves..etc, Should I get anything else that would help me train by myself for now? (I started to spar a few times a month too)

5) Whats the best way to strengthen abs/sides to take punches? (Ive got decent abs but I got the shit knocked out of me when I got punched in the solar plexus last week)

Thanks for reading.

 

[Dani3Lson]

i just answered all of these questions and it took a longggggg time to type them but the computer got messed up and somehow they got erased and i cant get them back up. this sucks and im pissed i typed all of that for nothin. im not about to type it all again...

sorry bro... just join your gym after school

 

[chrstrm]

1)Since I dont have time to go to a gym would it be a good idea to buy a double ended back and work on my accuracy and timing?

not sure if serious...

2) How do you fight against a really aggressive fighter that sprints at you at the start of the fight and overwhelms you with punches?

thats some stuff you see in a street fight.. i dont think any real fighter in MMA would
go balls out and just charge forward, if they do use footwork and angles and counter

3)Whats the m

straight jolt works well. granted, a straight jolt differs from a regular straight punch.

 

[Dani3Lson]

straight jolt works well. granted, a straight jolt differs from a regular straight punch.

glad u quoted some of what i had... i did all 5 questions like that but the answer's to the last 3 were long as shit. F'n computer "unexpectedly quit" while i was editing . . . that was some bull

 

[ambertch]

2) How do you fight against a really aggressive fighter that sprints at you at the start of the fight and overwhelms you with punches?

Depends what ruleset. People are going to tell you "stiff jab" or something but in reality guys who like to charge at you, if they are skilled they are going to be doing it with head movement and it's really not that easy to just jab them off (check out how Korean Zombie or Dan Henderson wade in side to side while they throw punches).

Easiest is just duck under and double leg them, lol. That takes the least amount of skill.

Or in kickboxing/Muay Thai develop a great teep. Teeps can be predictable though - depends on the skillset of your opponent.

In boxing, it's really pretty hard from a pure standup striking standpoint to defend because you need to cut a sharp angle to spin around them or else it's easy for them to just adjust slightly and keep fucking you up. And to cut a sharp angle you basically need to time an attack and angle out, which is haaaaaaard. So the easier thing in boxing is to clinch - clinching will teach you good timing too since you have to time when to reach out and grab them or else you are letting your guard down and getting blasted.

If the guy isn't TOO aggressive then taking a couple steps back and circling out is effective - but if a guy is SUPER aggressive that won't really help you unless you can time a strike in there to stop them, which won't always be easy

Check out Manny Pacquiao if you want an example. Watch how whenever Cotto/Margarito tried to trap him in a corner or against the ropes, he timed an attack perfectly, ducked around and escaped.

 

[thirteen]

Depends what ruleset. People are going to tell you "stiff jab" or something but in reality guys who like to charge at you, if they are skilled they are going to be doing it with head movement and it's really not that easy to just jab them off

Yeah depends on the skill level involved.

If the dude is coming in with good movement and behind punches you need footwork, parry and jabs etc. If he's just sorta rushing in haphazardly then throwing down - put your jab out and tee-off on the fucker. Show him what it's like to run into punches.

Either way you got to learn to jab and move.

(I learned the hard way)

 

[Albo]

Easiest is just duck under and double leg them, lol. That takes the least amount of skill.

Or in kickboxing/Muay Thai develop a great teep. Teeps can be predictable though - depends on the skillset of your opponent.

I do pretty well with takedowns and groundwork not mainly because of my technique but I get really into the fight and I have some explosive power. Last fight I was In as soon as it started I grabbed the guy buy his neck and threw him down lmao.

The reason I asked about how to fight against them is because possibly in that first rush you could get caught with a hard hit and that would change the fight.

Id rather not take them down at that point though, even though that would be the smarter thing to do. I like to teach people a lesson lol. Exchange a few punches to show him that he should try stuff like that.



Dani3lson: I was being serious about the double end bag; I was assuming that it might help with my punching coordination until I could get back in the gym. Being only like $50 I dont mind getting one. I only have an hour in between school and work, the gym is 20 minutes away so it would take me over a half hour just to get there and back.

Any more answered for 1, 4, and 5?

 

[SpineBreaker]

I'll answer what I can:

2. At low skill levels, a fighter who charges you and just attacks and attacks is probably a sloppy one. Learn to protect yourself and find an opening. Technique is everything, so when you see your chance, get it in there and make him stop attacking you.

Fighting at the highest level, a guy who is attacking you like that found an opening themselves and it's up to you to react.

You can't really answer that question very well. Every situation is different.

3. From what I've seen, just letting your arms take the hit. Blocks like you'd see in boxing. Or head movement.

5. Good breathing and just tensing up the muscles can help it hurt less. But it would be better to not ever have to take punches, wouldn't you say?

 

[Albo]

3. From what I've seen, just letting your arms take the hit. Blocks like you'd see in boxing. Or head movement.

Well in boxing of course you have larger gloves so that would help, im assumming that it would be better to slip the punch instead of try to block it with, lets say your forearm, and then the punch deflecting off of your arm into the face?

5. Good breathing and just tensing up the muscles can help it hurt less. But it would be better to not ever have to take punches, wouldn't you say?

Of course, but is there anything as far as long term goes? Like any way to make the area able to taker harder shots than I currently can?