Can you learn martial arts without sparring?

Now don't get me wrong I do want to spar but recently I had a surgery I have to have bars inside my body for three years and the doctors say that contact sports are absolutely out of disucssion...

Can I actually learn martial arts without doing sparring or is it completely pointless?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Forgot to say I can spar after they remove the bars in three years

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Then just wait 3 years then?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I will be fricking 26-27 then at least maybe I can get some skills in those three years

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can you hit a punching bag?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can learn the techniques but if you actually got into a fight you would panic and forget everything you learned because you don't have adrenaline control.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Can I actually learn martial arts without doing sparring or is it completely pointless?
    pretty pointless I'd say, which martial art do you mean? There are a lot of them

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Completely pointless.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No, you need sparring to learn things like timing, judgement, how long your arms are. Being stronger and fitter helps too, you can win fights against someone weaker than you just by grabbing them and punching them. Or if you are taller than them you can stiff arm them and avoid wrestling.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >if you are taller than them you can stiff arm them and avoid wrestling
      do you really think this works against people who know how to fight?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It does, and if you were actually into martial arts, you will see fighters do it all the time.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Of course it does. You see taller heavyweights do it all of the time. Klitchko was infamous for doing it. Roy jones jr did it too.

          Hearns would do it as well

          ?t=9

          Its a pretty good technique for controlling a shorter pressure fighter.

          that's boxing, not grappling or mma. you're not going to be able to use a stiff arm to "avoid wrestling"

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Conor Mcgregor did it all of the time lol

            ?t=149

            you have no idea what you're talking about. Also there are many reasons you do it. You can do it to control opponent's distance, set up shots, block your opponents view.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The examples you're posting have nothing to do with what we were talking about. You're just high on your own farts.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >conor literally using stiff arming to control distance and set up shots
                >nothing to do with what im talking about
                righttt

                Also jon jones doing it

                ?t=303

                funny how its all of these TALLER and RANGIER fighters doing it like the original anon mentioned as a technique for distance control.

                >b-but distance control has nothing to do with whether someone can take you down
                lmao!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The examples you're posting have nothing to do with what we were talking about. You're just high on your own farts.

                Also at 5:16 you literally see jones use stiff-arming to defend a takedown lol.

                Just admit defeat anon

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                Also at 5:16 you literally see jones use stiff-arming to defend a takedown lol.

                Just admit defeat anon

                The point is, dear autist, that yes it works when jon jones does it, it's not going to work when OP's crippled untrained ass tries it against someone that knows how to fight

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >this techinque works for x
                >"n-no it doesnt!"
                >look here is jon jones doing it
                >y-yeah thats just because its jon jones though

                How many concessions are you going to have to make here. It is a technique that is used to control distance, nothing more. Sometimes it is used to help stop takedowns, sometimes it is used for other reasons. Jesus what is so hard to understand here? I have provided multiple videos proving that it works. I have done the techique myself in sparring. Why are you getting your ego involved in such a trivial point lol?

                >Conor Mcgregor did it all of the time lol
                The first time conor faced a good wrestler he got fricked up, and he trained for years preparing for that fight
                >you have no idea what you're talking about
                You are the one who dont
                >You can do it to control opponent's distance, set up shots, block your opponents view.
                Not to avoid takedowns, if you think keeping your arm away like that has a big impact you should try going to a martial arts gym

                You mean Diaz or Khabib? Because neither are just 'good wrestlers' they are also top tier strikers and all round great fighters. Khabib was beating conor standing up. He didnt even need to wrestle to win the fight. I posted a video where Jones literally stiff arms his opponent and uses the distance created to avoid being taken down.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I should have said
                >Do you really think that will work [when OP tries it] against people that know how to fight?
                and that would have prevented this little meltdown you seem to be having. (because it won't)

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe it will, maybe it wont, how the frick am i supposed to know if a random anon will be able to use it effectively or not. All i know is that it is a viable technique to create distance. You seem to understand that but your brain doesnt seem to be able to connect that creating distance is a good technique to avoid getting taken down.

                >You mean Diaz or Khabib? Because neither are just 'good wrestlers' they are also top tier strikers and all round great fighters. Khabib was beating conor standing up.
                I will stop arguing with you because you clearly don't know what you are talking about
                Go to the conor khabib fight right now and look at the first shot khabib takes at his legs and tell me
                How tf does a straight arm stop that you moron
                Anti wrestling is wrestling, and i say that as a brazilian who hates wrestlers more than anything else

                heres the problem. I never said that the techique can stop any takedown at all times and is 100% effective. Especially against someone who is literally one of the best wrestlers in the ufc ever. You seem to presume that i did though. Its like me showing you a video of a guy getting knocked out with an overhand right and saying
                >yeah bro how would him checking a kick stop that LMAO
                its all situational you understand? Are you really so moronic and lacking in nuance that yuo dont understand that?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Maybe it will, maybe it wont,
                It won't.
                >I never said that the techique can stop any takedown at all times and is 100% effective
                homosexual

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                the reply of a beaten man

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >You mean Diaz or Khabib? Because neither are just 'good wrestlers' they are also top tier strikers and all round great fighters. Khabib was beating conor standing up.
                I will stop arguing with you because you clearly don't know what you are talking about
                Go to the conor khabib fight right now and look at the first shot khabib takes at his legs and tell me
                How tf does a straight arm stop that you moron
                Anti wrestling is wrestling, and i say that as a brazilian who hates wrestlers more than anything else

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Conor Mcgregor did it all of the time lol
              The first time conor faced a good wrestler he got fricked up, and he trained for years preparing for that fight
              >you have no idea what you're talking about
              You are the one who dont
              >You can do it to control opponent's distance, set up shots, block your opponents view.
              Not to avoid takedowns, if you think keeping your arm away like that has a big impact you should try going to a martial arts gym

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Of course it does. You see taller heavyweights do it all of the time. Klitchko was infamous for doing it. Roy jones jr did it too.

        Hearns would do it as well

        ?t=9

        Its a pretty good technique for controlling a shorter pressure fighter.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          These are boxing examples, not fighting
          Its wrong specially when you say "and avoid wrestling" how are you going to avoid wrestling when it depends on your opponent? Have you ever trained or fought? When someone shoots a double leg you have to adress it and its not that arm that will do it

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            see

            Conor Mcgregor did it all of the time lol

            ?t=149

            you have no idea what you're talking about. Also there are many reasons you do it. You can do it to control opponent's distance, set up shots, block your opponents view.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >offers arm for seoi nage
      Thank you, lanklet-san

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yeah yeah, give your judo buddies some boxing gloves and see if you can seoi nagi these nuts

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    In terms of boxing,
    You can punch a bag, shadow box and improve your punching form as well as learn certain basics such as blocking/countering etc. This will of course give you a way better base than someone who has zero training when you get the bars removed.

    But you will never be able to tie them together without ring time and there are certain skills that you can only learn via sparring. You cant drill positioning, cutting off the ring, inside fighting, pressure, distance, pace, learning to release your scapula and loosen up as well a lot of the mental side od things without sparring. Ring time is king.

    IMO you're better off focusing on something else. Knowing how to fight really is a near-useless skill. Also cant you do a non-impact martial art like BJJ until you get your bars out? If not then i'd say focus on weightlifting and looking better or some form of cardio/conditioning instead.

    Maybe go to classes and do the above stuff still but it shouldnt be your focus if you cant spar.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Also cant you do a non-impact martial art like BJJ until you get your bars out?
      Anon, try a bjj class where they actually spar and come back here

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >try a bjj class
        lmao no im not a homosexual.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Fair, but don't claim that bjj is low impact and a mangled cyborg should train it
          Dude will end up on a wheelchair

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It depends on the martial art.
    Some forms (such as Karate) use katas as part of training. It's almost closer to a dance than an actual fight, but you will learn the fundamental movements that way.
    Plus they can be meditative if you're into that

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, just get into gay frolic spors like wrestling or BJJ. 90% of sparring is dudes smelling each other's nutsacks while gently caressing

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The people here that give you advice probably don't even train.
    Yes you can beat up most guys that don't train without sparring, the average dude will crumble after 2 leg kicks since their legs arent conditioned

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    kinda but not as efficient

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