One martial art at a time rather then MMA? And how do I keep up my motivation?

[Cerntain]

Hello.

I've been training MMA with additional SW on the side now for a couple of months, I've missed a couple of trainings though to work, illness and just pure lazyness.

As to martials arts, I'm completely new. I used to go to the gym, but I hated it, so I ended up staying home, making music or playing games instead. I realize now though what a benefit it would've been to me if I spent atleast 2 - 3 days per week at the gym, but I just didn't had the motivation for it.

MMA:
It was really fun at the start, I felt like this is what I want to do every day. But as the time went on (well, two months or so) I kept wondering if I've made the right choice. It became a bit confusing to me that one month we were doing grappling, then stand up fighting out of no where. Instead of focusing on one, or maybe doing scheduling - Monday: Grappling and Wednesday: Standup.
I don't know how gym's usually do, as I said, I'm new to this.

So. Was chosing to train MMA really the right choice? Which would benefit me the most in the long run? Focusing on one, then add the other one later on in a couple of years, months or I dont know, or ... Do both now but just half as much?

Also, how the f)%" do I keep my motivation up?

Best regards, C

PS: If I've made any mistakes in my writing, or If this is the wrong forum section to post this in or what not, let me know.

 

[wordspeaker]

What do you want from it? What do you enjoy? It's a complicated sport. Wrestling bjj and kickboxing is 3 sports in one. I'm not an expert, but I'd do extra classes of kickboxing, bjj or wrestling as well as your mma. Whichever you enjoy. That way you can develop a strength in your game, and use your other skills to defend and get you to those positions. It might help bring some order to chaos and give you more achievable goals. E.g My striking sux vs my striking is week, so I'll use it to try and set up a takedown.

 

[the heed]

Most of the MMA place I know won't even let you join the class unless you have prior striking and grappling experience or currently doing them at their school.

A lot of the MMA class formats are set expecting their students to be in strike and grapple specific classes. It's too hard to teach all of it in one class. Rather the MMA class is used to teach how to put them together... not to teach each.

 

[BrainBar]

Learn each style separate first.

Too many McDojo MMA schools opening up that throw inexperienced people off the street into MMA fighting.

Just my 2 cents....but NO ONE should be allowed to do an MMA fight unless they are a purple belt in BJJ or wrestled in college and have at least 3 amateur boxing matches under their belt.

 

[Kincaid]

Yeah, I trained in dedicated grappling and muay thai classes before I ever took an MMA class. Couldn't imagine going into MMA classes before I did. You can't tweak the fundamentals until you know them.