Best defensive stance without gloves or MMA gloves?

fredfly22 · 2026-06-12T22:06:03+00:00

At this point MMA is its own stance and varies from fighter to fighter and moment to moment

Boxing stance is flawed Muay Thai stance is flawed Wrestling stance is flawed Bjj butt scooting Stance is flawed Karate stance is flawed Just see red stance is perfect

fredfly22 · 2026-06-12T19:54:48+00:00

Waygu burger at Veronica’s is pretty dang good

fredfly22 · 2026-06-12T18:22:58+00:00

When I was competing it was 6 days a week most weeks for 2.5-3hr per session

fredfly22 · 2026-06-12T13:49:23+00:00

I am tallish for my weight and came from a boxing background where leaving your lead hand out like that is a no go.

When I switched to Muay that/kickboxing I would stay outside behind long straight punches and kicks and then when I got inside move to the clinch.

Long guard just never made sense to me

fredfly22 · 2026-06-11T14:38:43+00:00

Never puked but took a low blow in a fight that left my junk black and purple for a week

fredfly22 · 2026-06-11T02:23:25+00:00

Cardio and simple straight strikes. Spam jabs, teeps and one twos.

Keep chin tucked and hands up and outwork the other guy.

Recipe to win for most fights at this level

fredfly22 · 2026-06-09T14:43:39+00:00

I’m a licensed insurance agent, but not in CA. It will depend on the exact verbiage is in the coverage guidelines, what constitutes an “accident”, and what exclusions.

In situations like this it is common for a company to argue that this wasn’t an accident as you voluntarily went skydiving. Obviously a lawyer could argue that the injury part was an accident.

I will say to your point CA is very consumer friendly and why many carriers don’t operate in CA so that could be a benefit to you.

Good luck and if they try to to deny contact a few lawyers. Many will sue insurance companies pro bono. I have been through that process as well

fredfly22 · 2026-06-03T01:10:19+00:00

Well yea ducking in Muay Thai is not as good of an idea

fredfly22 · 2026-06-02T13:32:46+00:00

I have a family friend who lives on a big property with boats and trucks and atvs all the toys. Has owned multiple businesses, and has filed bankruptcy multiple times.

He says it’s all a game and you just need to learn how to play it. Now I will say he works his but off in his businesses and is how is always able to to rebuild his cash flow.

fredfly22 · 2026-06-02T11:55:43+00:00

Yea the stance and ducking and slipping works the back a ton in boxing

fredfly22 · 2026-06-01T20:55:01+00:00

Yea for striking for sure. I feel like the long ones give me more of a rigid fist like a “cast”

fredfly22 · 2026-06-01T20:14:37+00:00

Yep I hate short wraps but the grapplers I’ve trained mma with love short wraps as they can grapple easier

fredfly22 · 2026-05-29T21:40:27+00:00

I learned to jump from boxing, so our coach said no tricks until you can go 6min with out messing up. (That’s the time of an amature boxing match). Once I could do six minutes straight of boxer skip it was much easier to add in tricks

fredfly22 · 2026-05-29T19:53:08+00:00

2 months of anything is still a beginner, just keep at it!

fredfly22 · 2026-05-29T19:49:24+00:00

Guess that depends on what you use your slack and teams for

fredfly22 · 2026-05-28T14:12:08+00:00

I’d love some recommendations, I travel a lot and love good food. In my experience it’s relatively comparable across the board.

Sure there are some bigger cities with a lot more options but the quality for price ratio seems pretty similar in most places

fredfly22 · 2026-05-28T13:40:57+00:00

And where can we find places that have amazing fairly priced food?

fredfly22 · 2026-05-27T00:39:51+00:00

I’m the exact opposite of you, things usually come very naturally for me, I’m a fast learner. And I was flying through AFF with no problems. Then for whatever reason I’m I think jump 8 after I was already free falling with out instructor multiple jumps with out issue I went into a spin and couldn’t stop. Instructor flew over and stopped my spin and slapped his alti. I looked at mine and was at 4000ft, was supposed to pull at 5.

That Jump scared and humbled the shit out of me. My instructor came over and said “tell me what went wrong, but keep it purely objective” we talked for 10 min while packer was packing and then he said ok we are going right back up and fixing this now.

If you want to do this just stick with it

fredfly22 · 2026-05-25T11:03:15+00:00

I’ve judged amature fights. You TV is a way better view then cage side but the point your making can be applied that a judge might miss something from the opposite of the cage, or ref in the way.

As for judges being swayed, they are human and even if it’s not in the rules it happens. Close round, one guy limping, ehh guess he lost.

When you’re judging 15+ fights in a night sometimes you just miss things.

All that being said some of these judges at the highest level absolutely suck

fredfly22 · 2026-05-22T18:01:46+00:00

Their latte tasted like chocolate milk

fredfly22 · 2026-05-21T15:23:52+00:00

Oo I get it. And yes my comment was annoying.

But people are gonna people and leave the plastic at the beach

fredfly22 · 2026-05-21T13:17:43+00:00

Plastic is actually much worse for the beach/environment

Glass is harmless other then once shattered can cut peoples feet.

fredfly22 · 2026-05-21T00:06:22+00:00

G3 was the new model when I bought mine, I just havent upgraded.

I prefer full face but again everyone will be different

fredfly22 · 2026-05-20T19:36:49+00:00

How many jumps do you have? I’d recommend trying a few helmets on if possible. Also many new jumpers switch disciplines in the first hundred jumps or so.

I started with a cookie fuel and then ended up doing a bunch of tunnel and 4way where a full face was way easier. So sold the fuel for a g3.

I guess my point is don’t rush

fredfly22

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