i wanna do mma but i am 12 and there is body weights and building so my conclusion is to start doing brazilian juJITSU and muay thai in combo .the price is 200$ should i give the trainer some tips like another 100$ dollars or just train with him or should i just start a karate class !|||wow that is a lot of money. Sure go ahead and start. I say start just with one or the other and make sure there are some people at least close to your size, if you are skinny like I was.|||Karate is useless when it come%26#039;s to REAL LIFE fighting.
all it is, is fancy unrealistic kicks and techniques that arent possible in a real street fight or mma bout.
Brazilian jujitsu, is the most effective martial art for real life situations and MMA bouts.
Muay thai is also good, but not as effective as BJJ.
90 percent of all fights end up on the ground, so having experience in grappling is a most. (wrestling,BJJ,SAMBO is what you should study)
Boxing, muay thai,sambo is good for stand up.
Good Luck.|||by the time you get to legal age to do mma you will most likely lost interest you have 6 years before you can sign a liability waver in case you get hurt this gives you time to work on a longer training time system like karate personally I would work on a defense aspect art for now as opposed to working on a sport style like muai tai or bjj|||Karate is suit for a 12 year old,MMA is harsh,although I doubt they will push you to any limits,I suggest Karate because at least you will have a lighter fighting experience,wait till you are 14,then train in MMA. I am saving your neck kid. also The realest Guy. You cant be a MMA/BJJ fan boy on Yahoo Answers Fighting boards. I am but,I cant show it :p.|||Lol @ The Realest Guy at is failure. He says karate is fake, and then suggested boxing. What a load.
Anyway, I would go for BJJ if you really want to get into MMA later on in life. The %26quot;MMA Gyms%26quot; are going to teach you a little of everything, but they won%26#039;t give you the experience of taking years of different kinds of martial arts. So I would suggest either finding a Muay Thai or BJJ gym and start there and see how you feel about it.
If you%26#039;re not ready for MMA yet, you can also try a form of Karate. But make sure it%26#039;s a kind that has regular sparring, and teaches legit traditional stuff too.|||Look, who ever says that karate is not useful in real life is dead wrong. And I mean DEAD wrong. Even if you know BJJ, and some guy that%26#039;s bigger than you, and stronger than you, and maybe has a knife takes you down, there%26#039;s no way you%26#039;re reversing, or getting him into the guard, because if he%26#039;s attacking you, he%26#039;s not gonna follow any rules what so ever, he%26#039;s not going to stay in the guard or mount, and do some moves, he%26#039;s gonna wanna kick your ***, punch your face, and stab you.
I say 100% go for karate, so you can AVOID getting to the ground and have to use any skill. It%26#039;s not like the guy attacking you is gonna have any mercy, like if he gets on top of you and you%26#039;re at the ground, he%26#039;s not going to get you tap out, he%26#039;s gonna be giving you blows to the head. What if he has other people, it%26#039;s a 3 on 1, or a 4 on 1, how%26#039;s jiu jitsu gonna save you know?
So my best advice is learn Karate, preferably kyoko-shin, that%26#039;s what I do, it%26#039;s really intense, but it%26#039;s up to you. Now the most important thing is to learn to use your legs, get very strong legs, very fast kicks, and very fast punches, I work more on my flexibility, than my strength, because if the guy is smaller than me, the kicks would just knock him out, and if he%26#039;s bigger, my strength wouldn%26#039;t do much to his. Learn to kick fast, spin fast, work on your side kick, you%26#039;ll get more confidence, you%26#039;ll be faster, you%26#039;ll kick *** harder.
If the attacker is rushing towards you, knock him out with a kick, kick his groin, kick the inside of his leg, kick his ribs, knock out his face. So I personally recommend you go for Karate.|||Karate is useless try the Muay thai its a good fighting style.|||BJJ would be the best but it is very hard and only for the ground. Do it with Muay Thai, if he is every in a street fight and knew Muay Thai, he wouldn%26#039;t have a problem handling anyone but if it goes on the ground, he would be killed unless he knew BJJ.|||I would have to agree with Fair there. Tweens like yourself usually do better later if they have a good foundation in something from earlier. BJJ or karate will give that to you as well as make you more coach-able and give you a better appreciation for good technique. You will then more easily learn other aspects of martial arts and fighting. It is ten times easier for me to teach a person like that when they are in their later teens or early twenties. They learn and pick up things easier and generally will do them better than someone that does not have a good foundation in some kind of fundamental martial art.
Any martial art if it is taught properly and done at a high level can be effective while at the same time each has its weaknesses. That is the reason why many cross-train and dabble in other arts. Start with just BJJ or karate, get a good foundation to build and learn from and by the time you are twenty and cross-training and dabbling in other arts like Maui Thai you will have an awesome repertoire of skills and probably better technique than you would have otherwise.|||Some forms of Karate are NOT useless and have allot of sparing like kyokushin. Karate does get a bad rep here in the states because of all the Mcdojos and crappy teachers who care more about money, than seeing their students excel in competition.
MMA gyms are better because the coaches like to see their students excel in compotetion and bring more fame and name recognition to the gym, thats why I would suggest MMA gyms they want to raise good fighters. Most Karate Dojos in the states now days don%26#039;t give a crap about sparring, tradition, or anything just cash.|||Those that say Karate is useless definitely need to have their brain checked.
Each Martial Art in their pure form has their own advantages.
Not to mention those idiot that call Karate useless then go on about BJJ and MuayThai because it%26#039;s useful in real life and MMA, when two of the most dominant fighters in UFC have their base in Karate (GSP and Lyoto Machida)
Now go on with the question.
Go with Brazilian Jujitsu, since you%26#039;re very young, I always say that the fact that you%26#039;re young and naturally still flexible is an advantage to train in BJJ, later on, maintaining flexibility is much easier than attaining it when you%26#039;re older.
You can leave Karate or Muay Thai for much later, but it sounds that the trainer will be the same guy for MuayThai and Jujitsu, so you can ask him to teach you how to throw punch properly.
The reason being, in BJJ, real sparring is to roll. Grappling might leave burn marks on skins, but that%26#039;s about it, you train well without bad damage, easy to explain to your parents when you%26#039;re still 12yrs old.
By the time you reach 18, your BJJ should be at pretty high level if you start from 12. Then you can train either in Muay Thai or Karate. A standup martial art like Muay Thai or Karate, if it%26#039;s a credible school, will have proper sparring sessions after 6 months training.
If there%26#039;s no proper sparring session, then run away from that dojo since big chance it will be a McDojo that will just get your money and teach you crap. Sparring is one of the most important aspect of martial art as you can only learn how to fight by fighting.
A proper sparring session in a standup martial art could easily lead to bruises, something that you don%26#039;t want to have to explain to your parents until you%26#039;re older (you don%26#039;t want to be banned from practice by protective parents----been there done that)
If you have good solid base in Martial art and the training discipline by then, a study of standup martial art for 2 years will be enough if you want to join an MMA tournament.
If your goal is pure self defense, do take classes in escrima or kali silat as they will teach you the weapon side of fighting. That will complete you as a fighter with knowledge of ground fighting, standup and weapon (stick/knife).
So, there you go, Good Luck
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