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

[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.