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Dijita
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Joined: 23 Feb 2004
Posts: 429
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Styles: Kyokushin

PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2004 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drunkenninja,

If you want to get there, take baby steps. Don't let people discourage you and tell you that you will never get there. You can get there if you dedicate yourself, but it will take a lot of time before it happens.

Like people have already said, start doing as many tournements as you can.

My advice as well, is if you like the styles you do now, great... but try and cross train in a style that actually trains for full contact and has full contact rules in their tournements. Getting your body conditioned to take the hits is important as well as practicing in realistic contact so that you get used to the feeling of hitting someone properly.
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aefibird
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Joined: 26 Oct 2003
Posts: 4416
Location: UK
Styles: Past and present: 2 styles of Karate, TKD, Aikido, Wing Chun, some Tai Chi

PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2004 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DrunkenNinja, if you really want to fight in the UFC, then go for it! Everyone has to start as a beginner and if you really want to compete in MMA then try to do everything possible to realize your dream.

Train as often as possible and start to cross train as soon as you can. Also, entering plenty of competitions to build up experience is important, as is a good training regime.

Talk to your instructor about what you want to do - he may be able to help you out more than you think, or may be able to put you in touch with a good grappling/MMA school.

Good luck!
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G Money Slick
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Joined: 05 Apr 2004
Posts: 182

Styles: Shotokan

PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2004 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heavy set, Little Experience......yeah i'm sure you'd kick Tank Abbott's *.
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Fenris-wolf
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Joined: 08 Jun 2003
Posts: 381
Location: New Zealand
Styles: Muay Thai

PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2004 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I actually know someone (a ninjitsu sensei, 4th dan, used to be in Australian SAS... ) who is trying for UFC. He went over to Japan or wherever it was at the end of last year and had a fight. If they like him, he gets to enter the comp. and go on TV this year.

I say good luck, but you're going to need a lot more experience (and a lot of work) before you're ready!

And yeah, talk to your sensei, but you should really look into training at a MMA gym as well

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Guy_Mendiola
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Joined: 04 Nov 2003
Posts: 269
Location: Waimanalo, Hawaii
Styles: Boxing and Tae Kwon Do.

PostPosted: Sat May 15, 2004 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a very interesting topic, If you're a good martial artist than go join the UFC, I think they have some amatuer fights first but it's all up to you.
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Mart
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Joined: 22 Apr 2004
Posts: 373

Styles: Thai Boxing 6 years

PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cung lee is bad *..lol he sucks.
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Xerxes
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Joined: 09 Jun 2004
Posts: 26
Location: Chicago
Styles: Shotokan Karate

PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey buddy I have a great link for you...are you ready? Its www.google.com.
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SevenStar
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Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Posts: 2631
Location: TN
Styles: bjj, judo, shuai chiao, muay thai

PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

there may not be an mma gym near him...


where do you live?

step one is to get some ground training... do NOT try to step into an mma match before getting some. tell me where you live, and I'll let you know if there's a school (that I may know of) near you. If not, you can find a judo club, and attend as many bjj seminars as you can. you're going to want more stand up experience too... isshin alone likely won't do it - find some boxers or kickboxers to cross train with - once again, if there are none near you, start attending seminars.

Give yourself at least a year to train - longer if you have to rely on seminars - and do some small local or regional mma or thai boxing type of event. build your experience there.

Next, move up to bigger venues, like kage kombat, ffc, iron heart, etc. you can get good visibility there.
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anewmmafan
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Joined: 05 Jul 2004
Posts: 6
Location: california
Styles: muay thai, boxing

PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

man you gotta remember that when you step in the cage/ring, you're fighting against people who have been crossed trained and most likely are capable of taking inmense damage. If you live in cali, there are tons of places to train, and many amateur mma shows here. In training to be more specific, you'd have to mainly crosstrain in jiu jitsu, wrestling, kickboxing, and boxing. Crosstraining is very good because you will get used to how to take a punch, will be able to trade, defend yourself when youre on guard, get excellent cardio, etc. If you've watched some Pride Fights(For example, Final Conflict. Minotauro vs CroCop) CroCop would have to wait for the referee to stand up Minotauro because he had no ground experience, and got in deep trouble once he got taken down.
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Luckykboxer
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Joined: 05 Jun 2004
Posts: 638

Styles: Kenpo Karate, Muay Thai, Jiu Jitsu, Boxing

PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok bud, With experience i can tell you this.
You will never be given a shot in the UFC with no ring experience.
Thats a fact, not becaus eyou may nto be good, but they are nto going ot be able to get that approved, andthey really dont want to take the chance of having a bad fight. With the amount of fighters applying for it they dont need to.

Now the key is to get in begining level events to start.

My advice is to start with full contact karate events first.
Then move to full contact kickboxing.
Then you might be able to find some mid level ho holds barred events at local indian casinos.

I can tell you now, if you dont have ground experience you will want to train it, or you will want to avoid ho holds barred for a while, the current atmosphere is alot of grappling. And I dont care how hard you can punch of kick, if you go to the ground and have no experience it will be quick.

I enjoy the sport as well, and luckily i live near mexico and Los Angelos and Las Vegas, so I literally have have hundreds of choices to compete.

I do not know where you live but start small and move as quickly as you feel comfortable.
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