What style of Legit fighting do you train and where? (only real arts like Muay Thai and BJJ no Kung Fu lol)?

Right now i'm at Pacific Coast Martial arts training BJJ and improving my Western Boxing although I train a lot of Thai Boxing, but the hand emphasis isn't the same so i'm taking a short break from it.

What style of Legit fighting do you train and where? (only real arts like Muay Thai and BJJ no Kung Fu lol)?
My training is similar to yours. I train BJJ, Muay Thai, and Boxing. I also have a strong background in wrestling, having done it for over 6 years and having coached it for a short time. Right now I'm not near any schools, as I work on a Navy base in Italy. There are a couple of guys here with different backgrounds and we spar together, teaching each other what we can. When I get back to the states I'm going back to my BJJ school, and looking for a muay thai gym if I can find one.





I think you're training now is ideal for MMA. Boxing and muay thai have awesome footwork and striking techniques. Combine that with the comfort muay thai fighters have in the clinch and the ground fighting prowess of BJJ and you have a very well rounded fighter. All that's missing is the takedown ablility of wrestling or judo. I've trained with many higher ranked (in belt)BJJ practitioners, and I've always had them off the takedown. They eventually improve their position and get me with a submission, but that will change in time.





I don't completely agree with your view on Kung Fu, though. It's true that there aren't many MMA champions with Kung Fu backgrounds, but I don't think that is because of the stye. I think it's more because of the training.





Kung Fu, traditionally, was a mixed martial art form. The chinese brought together various famous fighters to study their styles and techniques and to develop strong fighters for battle. It's techniques are effective and it has potential for MMA Presently, though, I don't think Kung Fu is practiced in a way that builds great fighters. Especially in the US. It has become more of a forms based martial art and the practitioners don't spar enough, if at all. It's possible for a Kung Fu fighter to study for years and have less ring time than a Muay Thai boxer would get in his first few months at a gym.
Reply:aikido


actually, i don't kno any form of martial arts.


but that is the form that steven seagal does
Reply:Could you please explain why Kung Fu, which has been used in warfare since ancient times, is inferior to thai boxing, BJJ, and Western Boxing? I should post this question.
Reply:As with anything else, where you train and how you train effect more of the outcome as opposed to what you train in. I have seen fantastic Tae Kwon Do martial artists who train more as a martial art than a sport. I have seen BJJ martial artists who go to the ground right away while trying to take down somebody else and fail miserably. For someone to make such a generalized statement does a real disservice to people who practice their martial arts with the intended philosophies.


TKD is taught mainly as a sport nowadays. That doesn't mean you can't find a good teacher that teaches it as a fighting system. Muay Thai is, in fact, the sport version of a less popularized Thai martial art. I bet you would agree that it is still effective.


Finally, if you train in a complete system, one that encompasses projectile weapons (arrows, darts, even guns), long range weapons (spears, staffs), mid range weapons (swords, clubs), short range weapons (knives, daggers), foot and hand strikes, elbow and knee strikes, grappling, and ground fighting, you wouldn't need to take other styles because you would already be a well-rounded fighter. Strange how most Chinese martial arts do this and yet you discount them...
Reply:I train muay thai under Kru Bunkerd Faphimai and Kru Neungsiam at Fight and Fitness in San Francisco, CA. Both are former thai national champions. If you do not know what that is, it is the best thia boxer in Thailand for that year. Bunkered won it in '86 and Neungsiam won it in '96 I think. Both of these guys are awesome and like my brothers.





http://www.fightandfitness.com
Reply:I just started training at Jorge Gurgel's school in Muy Thai. I'm looking to have my first ama. fight in November.