A little worried bout my MMA instructors knowledge of striking/boxing...

[WayneFlint]

So whats wrong with the instructor then? sounds like youve found a good quality gym.. lol. Dont worry plenty of those around here aswell, not just in the amature either lol.

Just keep searching if you want the best training you can get it'll be worth it all in the end, i made a lot of effort myself to seek out quality training when i started out and would advise anyone else to do the same, no matter how long it takes, there are too many idiots nowadays claiming they can teach people somthing about fighting.

[mattboxingfan]

Find a new gym mate when i started MMA they thought i was the dogs bollocks because i was a good boxer and had heart. I still got beat up but thats how you learn. Everyone shows each other new things now i dip into muay thai classes too everyone is pretty cool were i go. If he is using rocky movies to teach boxing then he is a moron. I would have burst out laughing!

[jn13.4o8]

yes. you should not be receiving all of your training from one gym. go to a boxing gym to work on your hands, jiu-jitsu for ground work, wrestling for takedown o/d, muay thai for kickboxing, etc.. rather than seeing one man who knows a little bit about everything, go to multiple people who know everything about one thing. nothing wrong with training mma but only time you should be solely at an mma gym is close to fights.

[Snakey]

Problem is i live in a small town so there really isnt any options, its the only place that teaches this stuff. The nearest city that would have gym options is Sydney and thats 3.5 hours away.

[TheCobra]

Might as well start your own boxing gym lol

you seem to know more about it them those other people

[mattboxingfan]

Problem is i live in a small town so there really isnt any options, its the only place that teaches this stuff. The nearest city that would have gym options is Sydney and thats 3.5 hours away.

What about a Muay Thai gym? If you are just looking for striking it pretty much sums up all the striking you can do in MMA. Kicks, knees, elbows, punches, clinch.

[Gray Lion]

Our boxing gym shares a large building where MMA is in the back. We are staffed by professional former boxers, some hold former titles.

The MMA instructors are smart enough to send their students over to us to learn boxing skills. The problem with most other MMA, Karate and martial arts instructors are they teach the old forms of holding the hands and striking out. --which might work in a formal match, or if your breaking boards, or your opponent is giving you time to get your form, line up and deliver.... but will get your ass kicked on the street. They also do not fight for real...I mean get hit hard enough to draw blood or rattle your brain (which serves to motivate you to learn your defensive tactics and moves).

Run..don't walk and find a MMA instructor who truly understands that a real MMA match is a slug fest..and watching so many of these matches, I see the main weakness of most fighters is in the boxing...they box like they are on the school ground or at a tough man contest. It doesn't take much skill to get a man under you and pound his head into the mat. The real skill is putting him down with combinations, and watching him back away because he knows you can hurt him with punches. "cant take a person out with body punches??....I would love to get him in the ring and prove that one."

PS: One of our fighters demonstrated how he could smother those leg kicks quickly and deliver some devistating blows....and he was holding back.

[RockyMarciano89]

Not to bad mouth your instructor or your dojo but it seems he's pretty clueless and that you might very well be in a McDojo