Does anybody here practice multiple martial arts?

Question

You know what I mean, like an MMA fighter? How do yall go about training like that? Do you go to different instructors? Find one single instructor? I really want to try multiple arts and incorporating them so does anyone know how you go about this?

Answer 1

WOW!!!! 5 or 6 different styles 7 days a week. Man you guys must train everyday from morning to night.
Can you say Bullshido....
No most don't go to different dojos. At $500 - $1000 a year how does anyone let alone a 16 yo afford it. Typically it would entale a dojo that teaches more than one style either incorperatuig them all in one class which really still becomes one style. Or Monday is boxing, Tuesday is JuJitsu, Wednesday is Karate, Thursday etc... Usually you will have a Sensei who is a black belt in one style trying to teach others or 2-3 people will open a dojo and teach their respective styles. Not that this is a bad thing but you never know the level of training your sensei has in the style they are teaching and if you train in 3 different styles 3 days a week it only hurts you from really learning one well.
No if you trained in JuJitsu 2-3 days a week then went to a local boxing club to learn how to punch a bit. Ok but other than that or similar examples it's either bs or they are wasting their time and money.

Answer 2

Many of your legitimate schools have been forced to adopt some of the same business practices in order to remain open. The presence of contracts and testing fees and some of the other things do not in themselves mean they are McDojos. I suggest you look up the schools of Larry Tankson, Harold "scorpion" Baragge, or John Sharkey in Chicago. At those first two especially you will get a wealth of sparring. Harold's school had the El Rukins headquarters next to it during its early days and they would have actual fights about parking and use of the alley with those gang members all the time. I know all three of these people and competed against the first two numerous times as well as some of their students at times. You will get some good, tough sparring with them.

Answer 3

i go every day except sunday i do mauy thai ,yoga, jujitsu ,monkey,kick boxing, karate,kung fu,tai chi,tae kwon do and some acrobats and i will soon be doing gymnastics over the summer....i learn it by one master... if you get a true master that lives breaths sleeps and rather spend more time practicing the arts and spend time with his or her family then they will know diffrent styles .... but a lot of diffrent martial art style they learn the same basics is just how they use thim makes the style....yeah but my school is lie 100 dollers a month for unlimited classes....

Answer 4

I practice Krav Maga, Boxing, Tai Chi, and Muy Thai. I went about it by going to different instructors, telling them I wanted to "blend" all of these together, and had them go from there. Pretty much it only matters as you get into the more "advanced" levels.

Answer 5

definitely,

I started out studying only one discipline, but decided that by learning another discipline would help fill in the gaps or strengthen my own fighting ability.

some instructors will offer teaching more than one discipline, but it's usually good to start out with one and progress as much as possible then consider a second discipline.

the best way to do it is to study a standing game discipline first (one that you'll fight while on your feet) and then a ground game (a discipline that can be used in a ground fighting situation to be a more well rounded fighter.

Answer 6

I started my Martial Art training back in the early 1970s, it was informal at my friends house, his father taught me Shotokan after I showed up with a black eye.
Mid-'70s, over too Jackson's house to learn Tang Soo Do. Quit after I made it to green belt. I then went over to Rev. Warner home to learn Chan Shou Do Kung-fu (weapons).
In 1978 I enrolled at J.C. Kim's Chung Moo Kwan.
About 1980 I went back to Jackson's and earned my red belt in TSD. Once again I left and it was 1983.

In 1985 I became a student at the U.S. TSD Fed. and in the summer of 1988 I was going 6 days a week. 3 days per week at the TSD school and 2 days per week at a Tae Kwon Do school. In the summer of '88 I went from white belt in TKD to brown, all I need to do was learn the TKD forms as my TSD history got em through the Kicks, blocks and hand-strikes, etc.

I passed my 2nd dan in USTSD, bought my first house back in 1991.
Son born in 1992 and in 1997 looked for a school to get my boy in. Needless to say I stayed at the Kenpo school and by 1999 I was running the Lake St. location.

10 years later I am still into Kenpo Karate, learning & teaching.

Well would you call it Mixed Martial Arts or, would you call it "Mixed-up Martial Arts".

Answer 7

Tae Kwon Do(I know I'll get flamed for that by the 'experts' but its the only kicking art where I'm from)
Boxing
Roman Greco Wrestling
Judo

Answer 8

it's important to cross train in other styles.there are good insructers around that have trained in multiple styles and teach this.but sometimes you still need to do the style to perfect the technique.

Answer 9

I practice eagle claw kung fu, drunken kung fu, monkey kung fu, tiger claw kung fu, tai chi, muy thai, and jujitsu , I have also dabbled in a couple arts such as capoeira