POLL: Should you stop training BJJ if.....

[Greg W]

You are focused and dedicated to upcoming Muay Thai only fight?

For you guys that do both..

ZOG?

[AlexBranom]

Yes. Put the Jitz training on the back burner until your Muay Thai fight is done. A few weeks off won't hurt your technique much. It might be extra amount of work you need in your Muay Thai to save your face from being punched tho.

[Chris Herzog]

Depends on your goals. My guys continue to do both, up until a week before, last week of a camp is recovery week so they only focus on technique, strategy, and weight maintainence. . A 6-8 week camp can be very monotonous, rigourous training. Mixing it up with a little jits (lets say 2x a week) with very light rolling can help ease some of the normal pre-fight stressors and help weight cuts. However I do isolate who is fighting and who is not fighting during class (partner fighters up with each other), so they know to go easy and "play" so it limits injuries. Now obviously in this case its guys fighting Muay Thai, but they continue with training a bit of Jiu Jitsu. Its the same when we have Jiu Jitsu tournies coming up and they witll cut back on their MT, but maybe still jump in a thai pad class or bag circuit class to mix it up as well.

[Josh Passini]

Depends on your goals. My guys continue to do both, up until a week before, last week of a camp is recovery week so they only focus on technique, strategy, and weight maintainence. . A 6-8 week camp can be very monotonous, rigourous training. Mixing it up with a little jits (lets say 2x a week) with very light rolling can help ease some of the normal pre-fight stressors and help weight cuts. However I do isolate who is fighting and who is not fighting during class (partner fighters up with each other), so they know to go easy and "play" so it limits injuries. Now obviously in this case its guys fighting Muay Thai, but they continue with training a bit of Jiu Jitsu. Its the same when we have Jiu Jitsu tournies coming up and they witll cut back on their MT, but maybe still jump in a thai pad class or bag circuit class to mix it up as well.

+1

[Greg W]

Thanks, we had some issues with some MMA fights lately, and I feel it is partly because some very good training partners for the MMA fighters stopped coming to BJJ class two months before MT nationals this July,because they are focused on those. The MMA fighters suffered some because of this, mostly because our gym is on the small side, we need every guy rolling we can get. Went from 15+ on the mats to 4-6. This is a very hard core dedicated MT gym. Interesting gym/team dynamic that is all new to me. Since I don't do MT and just love the BJJ, I wanted to get an opinion from a MT perspective.

[Chris Garry]

I still box in preparation for my grappling comps.

Now I'm not gonna try and say that boxing improves your grappling as that would be too broad a statement, but for me personally it really does.

And not the techniques themselves, obviously, but whether its just a case of getting in a good workout that doesnt involve more grappling and at the same time developing reflexes, core strength, balance and fighting under pressure or just purely a mental thing I feel like its something that supplements my grappling as well as the obvious benefits it gives me for MMA.

[Keith Jennings]

It'll help keep you loose, and can only supplement your clinch / takedown training. Focus should be on Thai but I wouldn't cut it away all together.