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Anonymous at Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:39:17 UTC No. 226966
What's the lowest bar to entry combat sport I can hop in and spar as a complete beginner? I want to have a taste for it without having to go through months of work.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:51:43 UTC No. 226968
some bjj gyms will let you spar at the end of your first lesson.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Mar 2025 04:19:01 UTC No. 226989
>>226966
Sounds like you want boxing, Muay Thai, or Dutch Kickboxing
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:06:59 UTC No. 227166
>>226966
have you never been out at night for drinks? You can get into a fight in any bar, the lower class the better.
Just wear a Tesla t-shirt and maga hat and walk around any place that serves alcohol
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:26:10 UTC No. 227258
>>226966
I'd guess boxing. It has probably the shortest timeline between "completely clueless" and "decently competent", so it follows that you'd be able to start sparring pretty soon
>>226968
Keyword "some". A competent coach would probably strongly discourage that
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:44:54 UTC No. 227373
>>227258
They've let me do it at all the tryout classes I went to. They'd just put me with some black belt I'm incapable of hurting and who knows how to moderate his own output.
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Apr 2025 18:02:49 UTC No. 227558
>>227373
Yeah, that's fair. The main concern would be that complete newcomers 1) don't really know what to even do in sparring and 2) tend to spaz out. Letting a more experienced practitioner play-spar you for a bit avoids both
Anonymous at Sat, 5 Apr 2025 19:59:31 UTC No. 227802
>>227558
Worried about my moves, Sensei? I always knew you were a fraud.
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:18:27 UTC No. 227961
>>227558
in high trust societies we dont really fear letting newbies spar. maybe its different in litigation happy third world countries like the united states
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Apr 2025 00:01:53 UTC No. 228103
>>226966
Battle games and full-contact LARPs will often have you sparring on the first day.
Games like Dagorhir, Darkon, and Belegarth have grappling (no submissions, no throws--think high school wrestling) and use padded weapons with no armor so you can just show up, borrow a sword, get a quick rundown of the rules, and go out and try it. Amtgard doesn't have grappling and they tend to hit each other with a slightly lighter hit calibration (but still not comically light taps like in games like NERO) but the skill level at some parks can be very high.
SCA has no grappling and you have to wear armor (different localities will have different loaner gear situations so you may need to make arrangements before showing up to spar) but you get to smash 1.25" diameter sticks into people's heads hard enough to dent their steel helmets.
Any of the buhurt type games tend to require more and more expensive equipment since the armor has to protect against relatively heavy steel weapons, but if you can get the gear (bought or borrowed) you can start sparring right away there, too.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:53:56 UTC No. 228453
>>226966
Just kickboxing would be perfect or you could try boxing