Thursday Night MMA Class at DKMMA

What is the key to becoming a successful fighter? Many people will tell you that you should just train hard, enjoy the journey, dont worry about the destination and then the results will come. I dont agree. I think you need to have a clear direction about where youre going and what are the important landmarks along the way or else you will end up wasting your time.

The ‘Just keep turning up and the results will come’ philosophy is just an excuse for bad coaching. Something is obviously wrong if someone has trained with me for several months and still hasn't developed any fighting skills

My goal as a coach is to help people improve and develop their skills in as short amount of time as possible.

One of the biggest keys to success is to avoid wasting training time. 5 - 10 mins adds up to months of wasted training time over the course of years

If you’re just training as a recreational activity or for fun or making friends, getting fit then making progress or achieving results may not be important to you. However, I see too many ambitious fighters waste their time and miss out on opportunities.

I have found that the people who have the most success usually make a lot of noticeable progress within a short time. They are winning matches & perfecting techniques in the first six months of training. It is hard to tell whether this early success is a result of talent or good coaching, but this early success usually means they will keep training and improving.

Without success or improvement, it's difficult for fighters to maintain the discipline and motivation they'll need to achieve good long-term results.

There are many essential attributes for a fighter but Time is the most valuable attribute. Becoming a successful fighter takes time but more importantly, it requires you to use your time in the smartest way possible.

The vast majority of aspiring fighters will drop out and give up in less than three years. A big reason for this high drop-out rate is that they don't feel like they have made any progress towards achieving their goals. Life can get in the way and they can no longer feel they can justify the effort of training especially since they have already sacrificed several years of their life and gotten no further to achieving their goal.

Everyone wants to be the next Conor McGregor, but are you actually putting in the work that will get you those results in the short amount of time available?

Mc Gregor had his first fight in 2007, his first fight in the UFC in 2013, he won his first UFC Title in 2015. 8 years from first fight until becoming the UFC Champion.

Alex Volkanovski had his first fight in 2012, his first UFC fight in 2016, he won his Title in 2019 - 7 years from first fight until becoming the UFC Champion

Israel Adesanya had his first Kickboxing fight in 2010, his first MMA fight in 2012, his first UFC Fight in 2018, He won the UFC title in 2019 - 9 years from first fight until becoming the UFC Champion

Robert Whittaker - Had his first MMA fight in 2009, had his first UFC fight in 2012, won the UFC title in 2017 - 8 years from first fight until becoming the UFC Champion

Khabib Nurmagomedov - Had his first MMA Fight in 2008, his first UFC appearance in 2012, he won the UFC title 2018 - 10 years from first fight until becoming the UFC Champion

Therefore average of 9 years from the first fight to winning the title.

Get in Ufc in 5 years - Average time to get in ufc = 4.5 years
How many sessions per week. How many do you have l do
48 wks per yr. 5 per week, 240 sessions per year
720 in 3 yrs
1200 in 5 yrs

So you have 1,200 training sessions until you're ready to step into the octagon. Here's the bad news, you have already been training for 3 years so you just have 480 sessions left.

The Key to success is that you Need to make each week and each training session count.