Iv been training off and on for a year and a half only in a gym for three months mainly with buddies in my garage. This is my first tournament what level should I enter
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Iv been training off and on for a year and a half only in a gym for three months mainly with buddies in my garage. This is my first tournament what level should I enter
Ever wrestle before?
No wrestling
novice
Mat time is mat time it the most important so if you been training almost 2 years total just enter begginers..
Really less than two years with a month or two off here and there? Plus no real teacher just books YouTube and this website
it all up too u in the end..in the end it all pracrtice till advance divison...lol
It's your first competition, go novice. Experience what the first time is like. Begginer is where you should be based on the amount of time training though. The rules don't specify the quality of training. Just the time you have. If you train your entire life from books and videos it doesn't mean you are a perpetual novice.
For your first competition you can sneak in with the novice guys. Experience it, have fun and don't worry to much about winning. My first competition was 3 months after I first started training. I started in the begginer division and placed 3rd. Challenging yourself is a good thing.
Thanks for the advice all! I'll probably do beginner so I don't think of my self as a sandbagger.
Do novice, bro. I trained from DVDs and the internet for about 2 yrs. That's all fine and dandy, but when I took that and rolled in a real gym, I got crushed. I competed at novice, and mt record is 3-3. Plus, You really should experience it from novice, as Matthew said. Oh, and NAGA and Europa don't consider dvd and internet training to be real training. Now, if you place first, second, or third, then you might have to move up to beginner. Just give it a shot, bro.
Either way you'll learn a lot. I would suggest at least getting a medal at novice before moving up to beginner. You gain a lot of experience from your first tournament.
In the only NAGA i've competed in so far, there were purple belts in the novice division, and black belt level dudes in the intermediate.
If you feel like spending a little, you should do both novice and intermediate to get more experience. That way, if you get a sand bagger against you in the first round at least you have one more match.
You can't go backwards once you start. Pace yourself.
Very nice, Thanks for all the advice! Very helpful