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Muay-thai/karate/Taekwondo=MMA

  • 18-09-2007 10:05PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭


    Im gonna start a martial art,
    with the intention of moving on to MMA,
    Im gonna start judo anyway,
    but I also have a choice of Muay-thai/karate/Taekwondo,

    They all have attractive facets,
    They all involve a lot of striking and competition I figure,

    so Which one would be most beneficial,


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭Roper


    If you're moving on to MMA, Muay Thai has the most in common with MMA striking. If you're doing it for a bit of craic, the right club in any one of the above will do the trick!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Simple answer= muay thai.

    It's almost become the consistent standard MMA striking delivery system and is the system used by most MMA fighters.

    Karate unless it's proper full contact (Kyokushinkai) isn't great for MMA. TKD similarily. There standards are very variable while MT is consistently top notch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭Roper


    columok wrote:
    Karate unless it's proper full contact (Kyokushinkai) isn't great for MMA. TKD similarily. There standards are very variable while MT is consistently top notch.
    Even at that, you don't see too many guys turning to Kyokoshin coaches to improve their stand-up. The Kyokoshin strikers in MMA tend to have done it from an early age.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭mmaireland.com


    If you're based in Galway then you're laughing. Pop in to www.pointblankgym.com

    Mark (Coach) has a TKD background, MMA title holders, focuses on Muay Thai for standup AND has a Kyokushin guy training with him (I think?). So, you could find the answer to all your questions in one gym.... ...sorted! :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭lmtduffy


    I know about them,
    but im in nuig,
    and I dont have time really to go out that far,
    its just easier to do whats in college,

    but eventually thats where id like to go,


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Nothingcompares


    If you want to train in mma but can't train in a mma club I recommend you take one component system (either judo or muay thai) and train that exclusively until you're able to start training in mma properly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    lmtduffy wrote:
    so Which one would be most beneficial,

    For what you want: Muay Thai. No question IMO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    M.T. will be much easier to learn and become proficient at than Judo.

    When your finished your college course and thinking of moving into MMA your still going to be a very novice Judo fighter, but a much more proficient M.T. fighter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭RedRaven


    lmtduffy wrote:
    I know about them,
    but im in nuig,
    and I dont have time really to go out that far,
    its just easier to do whats in college,

    but eventually thats where id like to go,
    Contact Dave Joyce in Galway in regards to Muay Thai, he has contacts in NUIG, I think they run classes there also.

    Ive P.M.d you his number.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    Forget Taekwon-Do as a spring board for MMA.

    In Taekwon-Do we don't practice low kicks. Our sparring positions would be different also to a full contact boxing/thai style position - we adopt a 'side facing' position where in Thai or boxing you use what we called 'half facing'.
    We also don't need to condition shins for non-padded contact, it's really a different sport all together. Unless you find a Taekwon-Do coach with good boxing skills - they are hard to find but they do exist :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Jon wrote:
    We also don't need to condition shins for non-padded contact

    I thought shin conditioning / hardening was basically a myth.

    My shins are solid enough now from bag and pad work along with the occasional accidental bone on bone (I've a welt like paddy's face on my right shin this morning).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭RedRaven


    Khannie wrote:
    I thought shin conditioning / hardening was basically a myth.

    My shins are solid enough now from bag and pad work along with the occasional accidental bone on bone (I've a welt like paddy's face on my right shin this morning).
    Why is the welt showing alcoholic tendancies already??!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    Khannie wrote:
    I thought shin conditioning / hardening was basically a myth.

    My shins are solid enough now from bag and pad work along with the occasional accidental bone on bone (I've a welt like paddy's face on my right shin this morning).

    To me, kicking them 'fcuk me hard bags' with your shins is shin conditioning. I didn't mean kicking bamboo trees or knocking coconuts off tree's :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Here's a video of me workin' my shins a bit.....



    As you can see....Bridgestone Man's a bit harsh on me at first, but really he gets the best out of me in the end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    hahaha brings back memories that does!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭mark.leonard


    lmtduffy wrote:
    I know about them,
    but im in nuig,
    and I dont have time really to go out that far,
    its just easier to do whats in college,

    but eventually thats where id like to go,
    I actually teach the TKD club in the NUI as well, so feel free to drop by and have a chat, there are regular buses out to the Gym each evening so training in Point Blank wouldn't be impossible for you. Either way, best of luck with your training.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    speaking of judo does anyone know william power in limerick hear he is starting up a new club would be interested?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭Roper


    I knew a Will Power who taught taekwondo in Limerick alright. Don't know if it's the same guy or if he did/does judo though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    Wasn't Will Power based in Wexford?

    What a name!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    TRAIN JUDO

    Benefits I've found from judo.
    • Gorilla like strength (awaits SBG lawsuit)
    • My judo skills attract babes
    • Lots of competitions
    • Fun, fun, fun!


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