Martial arts for sport MMA.?

Hello everybody. I have a choice right now to pick from either Kyokushin karate or Chito-Ryu karate. I am looking for a karate to help me in sport MMA. I plan to train in Judo and wrestling(high school) as well as karate. When I have a stronger knowledge in grappling and Standup which im sure Karate, Judo and wrestling will teach me, I plan on joining a kickboxing or muay thai club, and continue with wrestling and instead of Judo take BJJ. I think that if you are good in the muay thai they offer you the choice if you want to be a cage fighter so i plan to get good at muay thai and fight in the cage.





im not trying to be pro or nothing I would just like to enjoy the sport for afew years and have a great deal of fun training with my friends and such. Im planning to try and get good but not neccisarily turn pro. Im 15 and in Grade 9 at the moment.





so my questions are"


1. What karate would you chose?


2. Is this a good plan?

Martial arts for sport MMA.?
I think that sounds like a good plan. Judo is a great way to start learning ground fighting. Karate is good baby step toward full contact.





I think at your age, you want to do things with people your age. The Muay Thai places I've seen has a lot of adults in it. Join Karate, make somre friends, and compete in some tournaments with ppl your age. You can always switch to Muay Thai and full contact when you are an adult.





This is the same with Wrestling and Judo. You're at a good age, when you can train high school wrestling, which is a great base for MMA. Have fun. In addition, Judo will help out your high school wrestling. During all your wrestling matches, you'll have all the high school girls there to support you. How cool is that?





I would recommend any type of Karate. The most important thing is the instructor. Try to find one that doesn't seem like he's after your money, and is doing it for the love of the art. Those are the best types of instructors. I'm attaching the name of my karate organization, in case you are interested, and there is a dojo in your area. Good luck.
Reply:Honestly, I would recommend that you find a good Muay Thai place to train (combined with high school wrestling) and if possible substitute the Judo training with some form of submission grappling (jiu jitsu, Hayastan, Sambo). . IMO - the most well rounded fighters are grapplers with strong Muay Thai skills. Hope this helps
Reply:Kyokushin and Judo together should both help you with your goals. Kyokushin is known for it's hard sparring and fighters trained in it have usually done well in MMA. However it would ultimately depend on who is teaching you regardless of style.





With Judo, it will also depend on your instructor. Hopefully, your instructor will also cover a good deal of groundwork. However, it is not uncommon for a Judoka to take BJJ to supplement their groundwork. If you get lucky, they also may help you with modifying for making things work without a gi.





It really depends on the instructors regardless of style.





I think it would be interesting to see someone go into MMA specializing in Kyokushin and Judo. However you would have to take the time getting comfortable with training without a gi because Kyokushin and Judo both train in gi most of the time.
Reply:1- Kyokushin is by far the better choice. Chito Ryu is a lot of kata and usually does not have any sparring. If you can I would just jump straight into Muay Thai, time and again it's proven it's self to be the premiere MMA standup style. Why spend time learning to do things one way only to re-learn and change things later when you do start Muay Thai? I'd even suggest considering boxing.





2- Actually it's a pretty good plan. (again I would suggest you just go straight into Muay Thai though) Both wrestlers and judo practitioners start BJJ at a whole different skill level than most people and advance fairly quickly. Wrestling is a very very important skill in MMA. Wrestlers are crazy dangerous in MMA classes when they get ahold of anyone and they are experts at controlling an opponent on the ground. Mix that with a few years of BJJ and they are sick on the ground.