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

[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

[Gray Lion]

Ned Beaumont in his book Championship Street Fighting..Boxing as a martial art, and a man with a wide experience of all martial arts stated "I maintain that the power punches of a boxer (straight, lefts and rights, hooks, and uppercuts, are the most effective hand to hand blows of any system of unarmed combat."
"To my mind", continued Beaumont in his book, "the best illustration of the adaption of boxing to Asian fighting arts is Bruce Lee's jeet kune do. Lee took many techniques from many systems of unarmed combat, his only qualification being that the techniques must work in a real fight. Study carefully the punching methods taught in jeet kune do and you'll see that they are precisely the power punches of modern boxing as Lee himself admitted."

I have watched many MMA fights and witnessed what some MMA instructor taught his fighter as boxing. I have seen better boxing on school grounds and between drunks. You can tell the training emphasis was in kicking, and taking down.

Bottom line, learn boxing from a real boxing instructor, then move into the other MMA forms with instructors qualified in those specific area. Boxers don't teach Jiu-Jitsu, and Jiu-Jitsu instructors should not be teaching boxing.

[Snakey]

Ive basically decided to only attend occasionally for a fitness session. After speaking to a couple of other guys who previously attended the MMA classes and some who still do we all agreed that we dont think the teacher has any idea about what hes teaching.