My first amateur Muay Thai fight is gonna be in 2 days. Wish me luck guys!

I trained for 7 months in mma before my first fight two weeks ago and won 41 seconds into the first round by arm bar

answer starts at 1:24

You've gotta study, challenge yourself in training sessions, and take care of your body (diets, no substances, etc.) Also, be confident as hell. Trust yourself.

3 years, everyday, 100 SIT-UPS, 100 SQUATS, 100 PUSH-UPS, 10 KILOMETER RUN and never use heater or air-conditioner.

Bro straight up.. Its all based on the individual and how fast they improve in there skills

I had my first "smoker" 7-8 months in without any background ,but it really depends on the person , and how much you train . traning 3 times a week for 8 months and traning 6 times a week for 8 months is not the same thing

CM Punk clearly doesn't have a coach he can trust.

i just fought my first amateur mma fight last night. lost, took a lot of punches, but overall it was a fun experience and ill be doing it again in november. i just need to show up next time without being soo relaxed. if you watch the fight, NEF 35, i was the first fight and i was just too relaxed. as soon as i got hit good everything ive ever learned just went out the window. the cage is a completely different experience

I trained for about 5 months (boxing) before my first fight. I didn’t think I was ready but my coach did and all I needed was a little push. I ended up winning but it was damn close. The biggest thing I learned is I need to run my 5k more lmao

I will be the future of UFC, Hopefully successful if anything!!

As a baseline median, you should take 4 months to 7 months before you are prepared to have full blown cage fights for 20 minutes or so. This is assuming you train atleast 1 hour a day and have a good coach/training partner. It took me 3 months to compete in amateur boxing and 5 month for amateur MMA, kickboxing, Muay Thai, wrestling, and BJJ. I currently have a record of 10-0-0 and I'm 16.

Shane, you're the best!! In all your videos, you're a big source of help! Thanks

Didn't know you had a podcast, awesome stuff dude!

Currently doing Wimp2Warrior in Canberra. First fight is after 20 weeks, your advice is worrying :') love the videos, keep them up!

Lost my first fight, but survived till the last round. I'm just an underdog, my enemy was a good athlete, still proud of myself, gonna comeback stronger

Perfect timing 👏🏻👌🏻

Similar to Shane, I have a black belt in Shotokan Karate and have done a fair amount of point sparring in competitions. I've been training Muay Thai now for about 5 months and I still have a lot to learn before I would feel ready to fight. It's a whole different game to step into and it takes time.

Dude, thanks for asking the coach these things that do not interest you but us, who actually go into the line of fire every day in the gym to learn how to box and eager to have our first sparring.

I did judo throughout elementary. Starting in middle school I got into wrestling and especially boxing. I have great skill in boxing (I won state many times), I wrestled for three seasons in middle school and high school and thus know the basics of wrestling, and I’ve done jiujitsu for a little under a year. I’m continuing with jiujtsu and I’m training in Muay Thai instead of pure boxing now.

Been watching a bunch of these videos. BLESS THIS CHANNEL. This is what I wanted lol

Had my first Muay Thai fight after 4 months of training but I trained in Thailand, thats also where i had my first fight. I trained 1-2 times a day and worked really hard tho. I was pretty fit before as well but my fight skills was shit. I had a great experience and won my first fight by KO in the third round. If anyone else is thinking about having their first fight id recommend to get some really tough sparring before and if you're worried about your shins hurting and all that cause thats what was on my mind id say dont worry to much about it, it didnt hurt at all and i took allot of leg and rib kicks. I didnt check much kicks, the adrenaline took away all the pain.

If you're young don't be in a rush to have your first fight because if you lose you cannot take that back expressly if you perform badly

I am a 3rd degree brown belt in shorin ryu seibukan karate and have been training for 3 years 4 times a week but I started going 2 times a week 8 months ago , I have competed in a fair amount of in house tournaments, I personally trained for a year before competing in my first tournament

Dude I was just researching this and couldnt find an answer Thanks!

My coach says only I will know when I'm ready

I trained for almost 2 years before my first kickboxing match. however I probably could have completed after about a year with the frequency I was training at. had I been training more often and harder maybe 6 months or less. There's a lot of variables at play and everyone progresses differently. i was in average shape when I started but I also wasn't training that hard to get into fighting shape, just trained to learn the moves. I didn't start actually conditioning myself until about 6 months ago. the guy I fought had only been training seriously for 3-4 months or so and he did pretty well but there significant skills he had not mastered or developed yet so I won pretty easily. like Shane said, if you've got a good coach and you trust them, they will know best.

In the book Hagakuri (im not going to spell check that) otherwise known as, " The way of the Samurai", a very old Japanese book of compiled wisdom/thought s and general guide to how to live your life. Or in a modern take, the way to apply it, its basically, "how to be a gangster...with honor" lol. Seriously. Its the book featured in the movie "Ghost Dog" with Forrest Whitaker. it has a passage, (this is not word for word ok) but it basically says that a Samurai should recklessly throw themselves into situations and that decisions shouldn't take more than seven breaths. So like In Fight Club, get in to a fight once (be smart and dnt fight a gang or whatever) but once you break the ice, its truly life changing. You find out so much about yourself and so much more that i wont get into. Its my advice.or at least get hit a few times to kill the fear of the over hyped consicuences of getting hit in your head (again dont be dumb weighing 120lb starting a fight with a 6ft 6 bouncer or something) and don't get arrested (if u lose u probably wont be) i know i may sound crazy lol but it's liberating. I highly recommend the book though. The philosophy will be much better understood. An amazing read!

Im at 6 months strictly Muay Thai and I put my name in for my first smoker. It's really up to my coach and finding an opponent in the other gym. It probably wont happen, I know it's still pretty early, but I'm training like it will. I'd say 10 months is a good general timeline.

I’m sixteen and I started 4 months ago. Been doing a 30 min heavy bag workout and 100 pushups and an ab workout everyday and still doing it. Been studying all the combos and The rhythm of punches, but I’ve never been actually punched in the face hard and I need to know how it feels or else when the time comes in a fight I won’t be ready at all. Decided to spar with a friend of mine who has done martial arts

do you fight yourself. you seem to have a great depth of knowledge with regards to different martial arts. i was an Amateur boxer with a relatively successful career. i trained from 8 to 10 before i had my first fight, and went onto have a record of 68-8-1. I won three national titles, a European gold, a silver and bronze, and world bronze i beat the Darren Barker, James degale and a few other well known names as well as lost to maxim golovkin ( the best boxer i ever fought imo) Andy Lee and Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov ( another phenomenal boxer). i would say have your first amateur fight when you feel ready, but only if you have a great relationship with your coach and pay heed to his opinion and suggestion. it's also totally ok to lose a few starting off. don't give up. i remember paddy Barnes lost his first 5 amateur fights and he went on to become one of the best Amateur fighters out there.

how do you fight a women that got a hold of your nuts

I am 19 years old 3 wins no losses inshaallah I will be ufc champion

I trained for a year before having my first kyokushin karate bout ! And abt 3-4 months before my first amateur Kickboxing bout!

Hey man where is the thumb nail from. I kinda want to see that fight. Tho the kids look so young, it seems that you are allowed to hit a grounded opponent🤔

I had my first "smoker" after 3 months of training without any background. I trained for 5-4 days a week for 2 hours each, focussing in particular on grappling. Didn't know how to boxe for shit, but i won by guillotine in the second round. I have made other fights in the same year, 3 won by submission, 1 lost for points Now I have almost 2 years of experience and hard work, doing BJJ and striking classes for MMA

I have a boxing background, but i stopped for 4 years. Now i'm training mma for 3 months now and next month is gonna be my first mma fight. But i can say i know a things about mma, the mechanics, the philosophies of it, doing stupid sparring with friends, wrestling in the sand. All those stuff, but never really had an actual mma fight and I'm so excited. Wish me luck, guys.

I agree with what he said with all fights are counted for even if it's not on record. We train hard for just the sparing !

Shane can you please make a video about how often and how long we should train in camp ?

There's a lot of variables with that question

omg Shane will you be my coach that would be the greatest blessing EVER!!!!!

I had my first amateur fight only after a few sessions, my coaches were happy even though I was barely there. some people just know how to fight regardless of the style

Nice video Shane

Honestly, I have trained BJJ fir 4 and a half years, nearly a purple belt, and if I did not take periods off due to dedicating time to university, I would be a purple. I have done a little bit of thai boxing and wrestle a bit. I feel if I have a few months to readjust and recondition myself to high speed grappling, then I will be decent enough on the ground to at least have a game to work off training for a fight. Not saying I would be fighting any time soon, I would need to get at least good enough striking to be able to defend strikes and be somewhat of a threat. Personally, I will never be a pro fighter, I don't want to be, I want to be a 3d animator. But I love martial arts and I really want to test myself in a fight and an MMA fight is the best way to simulate a fight, I want to be able to know that I can really defend myself if the situation comes.

I'm curious about the timeline if you had experience long ago. I trained muay thai and bjj from 5-21. I'm 28 now and thinking about getting into it. Hopefully some of my muscle memory will still be there. Lol

Nice beer choice Shane!

It depends on the individual. I train from home!! I need to get my cardio/conditioning up first...then I will dive right in!! You gotta start somewhere

Looking to do my first amateur kickboxing fight while I fill the whole in my grappling before I step over to mma.

Like Shane says, ask your coach. Firstly, your coach knows if you're ready. He needs to know you have been training, he needs to know you'll put everything into the camp, he needs to know how skillful you are and how ready you are mentally. That being said, you need to know when you're ready too. Watch your sparring footage against people who are better than you, are you training your max? Do you really want this? Are you ready mentally? Have you accepted that there's a good chance you're going to be completely mugged off in front of your friends, family, coaches, training partners and random people? Do you even really want to fight, or are you just doing it to please your coach? I'd say 80% falls down to the coach and what they say, but there's a self assessment side where you NEED to know when you're ready. Be honest, be real, I know it probably hurts to look and think "I'm not ready yet", but it feels a lot lot better than the humiliation of losing. Take your time, fighting is here forever, you have a lot of fucking time to get better, like... a lot. And if you're not ready, train hard, keep working, stay humble, stay learning and smoke some weed lolz

You have a podcast? Watching all of them right now!

You can think about bouts when your doing good in sparring and turning up to all the sessions! there's alot to take into account. ex boxer talking and training young kids working on my bages.

shane think you so much for your training videos I've trained for 2 years and i have my first fight in 155lb mma this june

Great topic "and mental question"?!

7 months i had my first fight i lost by points but know I know i am ready I know it the adrenaline that you put through you is wery good it helps you prepere for your 2 match witch is your real first match becuse trust me in the first match 95% of people dont know what they are doing.

hellow shane i love your videos and i havent found the information or drills that you share, and i would like to ask you if you will be ok if i translate your videos in spanish ?

First muay Thai fight in a few weeks need the tips

I had my second fight in kick boxing after training for 4 months i almost won via knock out but he managed to stay up and comeback i was decent because i ve trained taekwondo for 7 years but my hands were below decent but apart from that i enjoyed it

I have alot of on and off months. Now iam almost on 4 months on without break. I think iam 70% ready for a local tournament. Maybe another 3 or 4 months is best. I am 24 now and afraid of time catching on. So gonna think about my 1st fight soon

Hey Shane, any chance you can upload these to soundcloud aswell?

Hi Shane great info, you speak about roadwork, how much and how often does one do roadwork.

Interesting. Been training Muay Thai for 2 years or so with the last 7 months rather dedicated 5 times per week. My Thai coaches want me to fight and I do feel rather confident when sparring with other guys in the gym but my Thai gym tries to make me take on fights on 5 days notice like 'hey, next weekend, wanna fight?'. Coaches say that's no problem but as I have a normal job and don't always train twice per day I'm a bit skeptical about taking fights on short notice. Also I think I should adjust my sleeping / eating habits when getting closer to my fight while Thai coaches say 'mai pen rai' - just go for it. What's your take on that? Thanks! :)

Today is the first day in my journey and dedication to getting in the cage for my first MMA fight. I’ll try to remember to come back to this video and update you all on how it went!

Thoughts on a top amatuer mma fighter competing in amatuer striking fights like boxing and muay thai to get their striking level to the next level? Since once you're pro in one combat sport, you're pro in all, would it be something that might help, or just seriously risk shortening your career over? Cause once I get back into training when my house situation is figured out, I'm looking at maybe giving boxing and kickboxing/muay thai a shot if I'm good in mma.

Even the most talented dedicated person will not be ready from never having done a martial art in less than 3 years. In my experience, the majority of people doing trheir first MMA fight alread y have years as karate, tae kwondo, wrestler, judo or some other art. Even though point sparring might not be a real fight, it certainly gives you massive ring craft advantage and awareness.

Hey Shane, You said 10 months, but how many days per week were you training for that 10 months? How many days of Muay Thai, how many days of weight training, how many days of cardio, etc. etc.

Im hyped and a little nervous for my first amateur boxing fights. Im 21 5'7" I have a 73in reach and i will fight at 132lbs but am extremely nervous to see what will happen.

I go to striking101 and I’m currently a white belt with 3 stripes and will be getting promoted to blue around June. I usually spar with blue, yellow and green belts. I can do good with the blue belts but struggle with the yellow and green belts

I have my first smoker in 2 weeks after 7 weeks of boxing. It will be fun!

good tips guys

6 months between first MMA training and my first ammy fight (had background in Ju Jitsu for 3 years). Have my third in June, won all so far.

I'll say this when you have really good sparring partners it makes your first fight a breeze as long as you can take some pressure.

I’m strongly thinking about starting my amateur mma career very soon, possibly towards the end of 2019

it depends on your natural skills you could be training since you were 5 but a guy Whit 4 months could whoop you.if your made for it your made for it.sad but true.

you should do a Q&A with the subscribers just a thought

Shane I'm into bodybuilding at the moment and have been for a couple years but I also love fighting and mma, i struggle coping with them both as my training at the gym makes me sore for my mma training, I don't want to give up either, any advice ?

tl;dr 10 months

3months training under my coach.. I fought 2times in boxong fight. my first fight I won sliver, my second fight I won gold medal 🎖.. Am getting ready to fight in my muay Thai tournament December 28th wish myself best of luck

The problem comes when you don't have a coach that pays much attention at you. You can ask him many times, but he still won't give you a serious answer, and focus on his other fighters. If that's the case, I might recommend switching gyms and coaches , even after you trained like hell and still no acknowledgement from them

I recently got the urge to start competing in athletics again and feel the need to check off my athletic goals list before my time on this Earth comes to an end: 1) Amateur bodybuilding comp 2024, 2) Amateur powerlifting comp 2025, and 3) Amateur MMA fight 2026. I’m going to dedicate a year of training for each event starting this year August 1 so watching this video and reading the comments definitely gave me more confidence towards the MMA fight. I’ve always been a disciplined weight lifter/runner when it comes to my fitness since the age of 13 so I feel like I have a head start so to speak but I haven’t competed in a sport since 2013 (ex college baseball player) so I want to put my athleticism to some real tests for once! I’m excited about this journey and just the opportunity to take care of some demons in my brain that will haunt me forever if I don’t at least TRY to accomplish these goals. Wish me luck!

In BJJ my record is 7-2, technically it should be 6-3 but they didn’t put it in right. First lost was in a tournament two months into my training, I lost horribly via arm bar. Can’t remember aside from that cause I was scared. Second tournament I lost to the same kid from the first one twice, but this time by points and only barely. Third tournament I feel like I got robbed tho, I mean it was a year later (a year and 4 months into training) so the og kid wasn’t there (bet I could’ve beat him now tho 😤) and I only got two matches cause one of my opponents quit after I beat them ending the gi bracket (really small tournament, would’ve had a best two out of three one v one)

Ive practiced traditional martial arts for a few years, (subakdo, its similar to taekwondo or karate) became national champion once, then because of health issues plus other stuff stopped practicing, i got in a fightckub where we fight with whatever rules we decide before the fight but didnt train in anything for a while, now after about 8 years since i was a champion (i was 17, so i competed with adults already at the time) i am prwcticing boxing... Because of my previous experience my techniques in "outside boxing" are kinda good, i wanne get better wt inside fighting tho... Do you think one year might be enough training to compete in boxing?

Get in the cage or ring and spar with a new opponent every new round for the maximum amount of rounds in ur sport. If you hold your own, you're ready. If you die in the first round train more.

Damn i feel like a quick lesebrett now😂😂 i trained deuch kickboxing for like 4-5 months then stopped martial arts. And about 3 months ago i started muai thai and i am having my first JR. Fight here in norway👌

I’m scared and excited for a Muay Thai amateur match. I’d like to wait at least a year tho I be only been training for 7 months cutting out the quarantine time.

Shane do you have anymore of your fight stories? Everyone would love to here some more stories.

Gonna have my first fight tomorrow. May post the video on my channel.

Got my first in a month 💯❤️

I just wish my mom had enough money so I could start goin to mma classes I wanted to get started early but I just watch all these yt videos to help me

You said you have a black belt in Tae Kwon doe, and now you do muay thai. How well would you say those two arts go together? I ask because I have a black belt in karate, and I plan on starting muay thai and Bjj soon, and I'm concerned with if those two striking arts will complement each other.

Hey Shane I was wondering if you could help me with my stance. I've been told that if your right handed then your left should be befire your right. But I'm more comfortable doing the opposite. What should I do? I know it's unrelated.

I trained 5 mounths before my first fight and got a silver medal

I'm a Dutch kickboxer and my coach wants me to fight after 3 or 4 months of training already. I would but not having shin guards on is a scary idea to me. I haven't started conditioning myself really yet, so.. Any thoughts on that Shane?

This "ghost in the shell "trailer has been kicking my ass.

Hey Shane could you start posting these to iTunes or SoundCloud?

I just got you your 3,000th like my guy

I’ve been training for 3 months Muay Thai & my coach asked me if I want to do a smoker, a little nervous lol

Shane, how many times were you training Muay Thai a week in the 10 months leading up to your first fight? Also, do you treat a smoker like as if it was a fight or do you treat it like it's sparring?

I love you Shane Fazan your my hero

Ready

Is that Sierra Nevada that Shane is drinking? The greatest drink to ever grace earth.