I have a thread on this on Martial talk, but I wanted to find a new forum to get some other thoughts. I know that I need to ask the instructor but I cant do that right now.
FYI im 5'8 330, 32yrs old.
I spent the last 1.5 years in mma to loose weight. Its working. I have lost 100lbs but I have 100 more to go. Problem is I have been to more then 2 mma gyms. MMA gyms are not stable here, they keep going out of business. That and im tired of the egos and need for dominance.
Well I took a BBT class, and as stated in my mt thread I enjoyed it and I felt I got something out of it.
Now my mates on sherdog are playing to my MMA training and trying to talk me out of it. Using convincing arguments, with videos. The one thing I take away from them is that the techniques are not realistic.
I watched there videos and I have no problems with the actual defenses vs various strikes, its what happens after words. Its the complicated repeat armlocking and movem this way and then back that way then back this way then lets throw them and kill them. I guess ill boil it down. It seams that they are using to much time from the end of the deflections of the incoming strikes, to the actual take down and defeat. TO much time spent moving various body parts. Now it may have been that video, and others I have seen.
Can you guys expand on this and help me understand the over complicated moves and why you feel there is enough time in a real altercation to do them?
Like I said, I enjoyed the class, Its a stable school been here for more then a decade. I just want to make sure that im getting quality MA instruction not Hippie BS that wont work.
Here is the video they posted as there example of why its bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6poI...layer_embedded It just seams that at certain points, things take to long.
Help me out guys. I just want to make sure that Im getting into a qualified and real ma that will work. I expect real punch's real kicks to deal with, not taps..