What's your training background?

[Prometheus]

I am curious to see what everyones background is. Mine is wrestling/BJJ with a little Muay Thai thrown in.

[VictorCharlie]

BJJ/Boxing

[Von Milash]

pipe and knife.

seriously, just been working the heavy bag on my own for a long time. Hit pretty hard but no true training other than shaddow and mirror, emulating what I see on tape and in books. Whenever I see something new I do it over and over in slow motion to develop coordination until it feels natural. (Example, my left hook was shit for a long time. Very weak. Then I slowed it down to almost nothing, rep after rep, concentrating on form, now it feels as natural as my right.) Then I pick up the pace little by little and then I've developed natural power. Good technique first, power follows naturally.

That's why I asked the question "if you had to pick one..." Would love to take something formally but can't decide what. So many great disciplines to choose from...

[VictorCharlie]

I'd like to take some freestyle wrestling and muay thai but there isn't much offered on the post where I'm at. I take an Army combatives course weekly and they mix it up with lots of different stuff.

[raleights]

Rex Kwon Do

[X]

Network SouthEast ('train -ing ..... geddit)

Amateur boxing and 7 years TaeKwonDo

[raleights]

psh X and his Tae Kwon Do

I repeat, Rex Kwon Do

[Heavy D]

Haha...some guys I know competed in a JiuJitsu tournament under team name "Team Rex Kwan Do"...good stuff.

I've been training myself in boxing the best that I can on the heavybags at my gym, and other similar ways to the poster a couple above. As soon as I can lose some weight, I plan on entering the local Toughman Competitions. I feel I could easily beat the majority of the guys in the competition, but I weigh about 205 right now, and I'm only 5'10" (theres some fat...I could probably lose about 10-15 lbs easily from my gut and legs, but overall, I'm not really huge, I just have a stocky build). If its enough to get me down a weightclass, that is, otherwise, I'ma just getmy cardio up and not worry about the weight, cuz I'm pretty nimble for my weight, and I THINK I have good handspeed (only done "backyard boxing"[In a ring, but against friends with either just combat training from marines or no real training], and I seem to hit harder and faster than any of them by far).

I also plan on taking some classes from my boss, who learned BJJ from Royce Gracie, plus was a professional kickboxer for a few years.

[Billy_TNT_Carnes]

MMA is mine, I train a lil of every thing. Boxing,Kick Boxing,Muay Thai,BJJ,Tang Soo Do,ect....

[X]

psh X and his Tae Kwon Do

I repeat, Rex Kwon Do

What is Rex Kwon Do?

[X]

psh X and his Tae Kwon Do

I repeat, Rex Kwon Do

[Munkymagic]

Boxed at school and for a short while in the Navy. Judo, World War 2 combatives.

[Canvasback]

Chinese Kenpo for about 8 yrs., boxing, Muay Thai, some grappling and Kali. I mostly train in boxing now, usually on my own. I recently went to a boxing class at a local health club. It wasn't bad, but they didn't stress technique too much. It was mostly for cardio, 3 minute rounds with 30 second rest. I made it through the class, but at age 55, was the oldest person in the class. It almost seemed to be too much for me.

[raleights]

psh X and his Tae Kwon Do

I repeat, Rex Kwon Do

What is Rex Kwon Do?

Watch Napolean Dynamite and you'll know the wrath of Rex Kwon Do

[1magine]

boxing at 55 you a crazy man
boxing still kills me every class and im only 24