When to start mma training
The Best Way to Start Training MMA!
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it's going on guys for the route back
again with another video today I'm gonna
go over some QA questions that I got on
my Instagram today we're gonna be
talking about how to get started in
mixed martial arts alright guys so again
we're gonna be talking about the best
way to start training MMA now to give
you guys kind of a rundown in a
background of myself you know I started
training MMA just simply because I
wanted to compete more right I started
playing football at a young age I did
Kempo karate as a young kid and then I
also did some amateur boxing on the
offseason in my college career so after
college I needed something to do right
so I started to get into MMA and lo and
behold I'd had Dean Thomas right there
in my my back yard so I ran up to him
asked him if I could start training and
there went so the best thing to do to
start is to actually start get a hold of
a gym get a hold of a coach and make
sure they're qualified to teach you what
you need to know alright so again step
one find a qualified gym and a coach I
found American Top Team and then the
rest is history right so step two we
want to find out what you do best
now I would say most people say what do
you want to do the most right some
people will say okay find something that
you like to do the most for me I would
say what you do the best will actually
turn into what you like to do the most
because if you're efficient and you're
actually good at it you're gonna want to
do that thing right that's when you
develop your true passions is when you
actually understand that you actually
can do these things adequately okay so
again find out what you do best
whether that be MMA based drills of you
know grappling wrestling jujitsu
kickboxing Muay Thai boxing whatever you
like to do there and what you feel is
best for your specific style and let's
say say whatever you're good at go ahead
and try that first and get really really
good at that okay so going on to step
three be consistent when I started
training MMA I went every day two times
even three times
day to train and this was also as I was
still training other clients doing my
own thing as far as working out and
getting things in order from my own self
as far as getting my career started and
also being a pro fighter was a pretty
hectic schedule for myself but I still
made it possible to be consistent each
and every day okay
step four right you want to ask constant
questions all right you're never gonna
get good you're never gonna know new
things or learn new things if you don't
ask questions so make sure that you get
with the coach and you constantly pick
their brain you constantly ask them what
you need to do to get better and also
finding out new moves and new techniques
to get your game up there so that you
can be where you want to be going
forward okay step five you want to
develop a style I've been I develop
styles throughout my entire career
sometimes they work sometimes they
didn't but when I found that true style
of mine where it actually worked with my
entire game that's when I stuck with it
and it was successful but again you're
gonna go through these different types
of styles whether that be trying to
imitate John Jones or whether that be
you know trying to imitate you know GSP
right the game will ever change but you
need to find something that's going to
really match your personality and the
way you like to fight okay step six you
have to be patient right a lot of times
guys want to jump in and as soon as they
sign up and get it all the time at
American Top Team they want to fight in
the UFC automatically that's not how a
thing goes all right these guys have
been fighting for years and decades
almost and never make it to the UFC so
you have to be patient you have to be
consistent and you have to make sure
that you're always consistently growing
and learning okay so step seven we want
to keep an open mind now you want to
develop that white belt mentality you
want to keep ever growing so again you
want to stay open-minded to new things
and new ideas and new training
modalities because you're gonna have to
evolve and the only way you do that is
to keep an open mind the best fighters
and the best best athletes that I coach
like the likes of Dustin Poirier he
keeps an open mind he always wants to
evolve and get and try new things
all right so again
keep that open mind so step eight goes
right into it you want to constantly
evolve so keeping that open mind will
help you engage in evolving your overall
game again if you don't evolve with the
times if you don't get better if you
don't strive to progress in your overall
game and in the sport itself then you're
probably going to be left in the dust
and you're not going to develop your
true potential that you could have done
you know if you kept that open mind and
you kept evolving all right so I hope
that answers your question
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