Honest review: MMA is brilliant but finding a gym with quality striking and grappling coaches is real

MMA has been one of the best decisions I've made for my fitness and mental health. The double-leg takedown and the deeper scrambles keep training mentally engaging in a way the gym never did.

But I want to be honest: finding a gym with quality striking and grappling coaches. Nobody told me about that before I started and it caught me off guard. Invest in proper MMA gloves early — again, something I wished I'd done sooner. first amateur fight came later than I expected but when it arrived it was worth the wait. Four stars rather than five because of that one persistent issue.