suqoria

I've been doing martial arts for most of my life (I'm 19 and started when I was 4 but there has been a break and I haven't been able to give it my best during practice for a while due to back problems), but I've hopped between a few martial arts only staying in judo for 1 year and then doing it again when I started doing mma. We had an aikido "master" come in and try sparring with us to show his students that it would work. Even when it was only throws, almost everyone won over him. Even the people who had just been there for a month or so. He wanted to have us include punches and so and even though everyone was going easy on him he stood absolutely no chance against anyone who was there.

Do you have any tips for people who have just started doing mma or will start recently?

Thanks for the tips :) I also have something that you as someone who has worked with a lot of people within mma will have a lot more knowledge about that I'd like to ask.

Do you think that people who practice mma (or even combat sports in general) might be stupider on average than other people? Where I practice I'm the only one of the people who regularly train there who have even graduated high school (of the people who're old enough to have done it) and the only one who has even thought about going to school past it (I'm currently going to school and will finish my bachelors this year and start getting my masters next year). I stand out because I'm able to do mental math which involves decimals.

Follow up on that question; do you think that people who train mma might have had harder lives than the average person? I'm thinking mostly of childhoods. Of the people I train with regularly only one person didn't get beaten as a child. Most of us grew up rather poor and generally didn't have great childhoods. Come to think of it there might be some correlation between that and the things in the first question.