I would just like to compete. I am new to mma and would like to know how long i should wait before i take a amateur fight.

You don't need to train. You just have to beat up a few fat guys in a parking lot and you'll be good to go. It worked for Kimbo.

You don't need to train. You just have to beat up a few fat guys in a parking lot and you'll be good to go. It worked for Kimbo.
I want to do more serious things than kimbo.

Talk. To. Your. Coach.

whom do you pay for training?

Ask them.

Talk to your coach, it depends on how atheletic you are when you come in, how much martial arts experience did you have, how well have you picked up what they have been teaching you. I took me 6-7 months to get in shape and up to speed to live through my first fight and it took some others 3 or 4 because they were already athletes.
If you want to speed it up when your coach gives a technique drill it until he tells you to move on. Like if you thought you got it keep doing it because after 1000 times it'll become muscle memory.... I doubt you will get 1000 reps in before he tells you something else. Push hard on cardio circuits to if yall do those.

I'm sure the answer is: longer. Much longer.

Don't you know how to properly train yourself already? Cause if not; you shouldn't be training at all. But thats not the point. Keep going to the gym, lift weights, run, and stretch. Ask one of your friends to spar with you twice a week. Once you feel you are in a dominant point of training. Watch some Pride Fighting highlights. If you fell intimated, continue training.

I'm waiting till blue.

i am decently athletic im gonna try amateur fighting out when i graduate high school in 2011. I guessing by these posts i should be ready to fight by then unless i suck that badly.Right now i am doing Pankration(teen mma) 2 hours,MMA another 2 hours, and muay thai 3 hours every week. I plan on having it be the same during wrestling season which is 2 hours mon-fri. Right now i do weight training at my school mon/wed/fri for about one and a half hours except on mondays it is like 40 min. i get bored running so im gonna try more sports.right now i am only doing wrestling during wrestling season. i planned on doing bjj but the place was to far alway so i saw a mma/mt gym on my way back from there.

If you can wait until blue belt (if you;re a BJJ guy)...but...make absolutely sure you are sparring MMA well before then. You will need striking and wrestling if you don't want to cop an ass kicking.

First time in the ring or cage is a huge shock to your system and you will need to be 100x more prepared physically and mentally than you think.

Good luck!

i dont train bjj i train straight mma/muay thai/wrestling

If you don't train bjj, you'll tap out to someone who does.

If you don't train bjj, you'll tap out to someone who does.Or you know....his superior wrestling ability, and muay thai ability will prevent them from being able to get him to the ground.

And then once on the ground, he'll probably use some of the techniques he got taught while learning "straight MMA" (no homo?) to defend against submission attempts?

But putting aside the fact that you overlooked that taking MMA classes would include the learning of ground techniques, don't you think it's perhaps slightly unfair to declare someone who trains BJJ will necessarily win, when you know so very few of the variables?

Right now i am doing Pankration(teen mma) 2 hours,MMA another 2 hours, and muay thai 3 hours every week.Also, to call pankration "teen MMA" seems an incredible oversimplification....to the point of being just incorrect.

But hopefully someone else better versed can tell you more.

(unless i'm just crazy here?)

Or you know....his superior wrestling ability, and muay thai ability will prevent them from being able to get him to the ground.

And then once on the ground, he'll probably use some of the techniques he got taught while learning "straight MMA" (no homo?) to defend against submission attempts?

But putting aside the fact that you overlooked that taking MMA classes would include the learning of ground techniques, don't you think it's perhaps slightly unfair to declare someone who trains BJJ will necessarily win, when you know so very few of the variables?


Uh, dude, a bjj player can always just pull guard.

Straight MMA? Uh, dude. You've got to train bjj to know how to correctly defend submissions. Its the best groundfighting system out there.

Don't be a douchebag.