Would you train and spar light in kickboxing? Is it worth the possible brain issues?

Would you train and spar light in kickboxing? Is it worth the possible brain issues?

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no, i do judo

if you are not sparring lightly your gym is full of mental niggers.

I wish I could do judo, it’s like an hour away though

>spar light
>brain issues

Doesn't add up to me. Brain issues come after years of actual abuse or after a serious beating. If you're doing it and you feel like you're getting hit in the head too much then stop. If you start trying to compete then you're risking it. Just get good and don't get hit.

Id like to give striking a shot, I’ve been on the fence about it a long time because I’m obsessed with keeping my brain safe, but I think knowing how to box would be a useful skill

Same

You'll be fine, brah. You're worrying too much about nothing. Nothing's gonna happen. Go out there and fulfill your desires without letting fear control you, okay, champ? ;) I love you, and good luck.

Luv u 2 bby

Taking a hard punch once or twice is good for your mental health. The pro boxers that you see becoming potatoes late in life do so after decades of full time sparring and fighting.

Does your instructor teach double and single leg takedowns or do they only teach watered down Olympic-legal shit?
How often do you work on ne-waza?

>Taking a hard punch once or twice is good for your mental health.
i second this, i have no one to punch me so i just punch myself, it has done wonders for my mental health

Controlled training of techniques and light sparring is completely safe. It's one of the best sports you can pick up.

Very based

As it was said a million other times in every misplaced /xs/ thread posted here, the risk of CTE is widely exaggerated unless you're competing.
If you're just training without sparring, which you can most certainly do, there is no risk of CTE.
If you're training while regularly light sparring, there is still no risk of CTE.
If you're training while occasionally hard sparring, still, there is no risk of CTE.
If you're doing exhibition fights every once in a while, you still will not get CTE.
Unless you're a competing amateur or pro boxer, you will NOT get CTE and even as an amateur or pro boxer there is a chance you won't get it.
What's important is that you get some good 8 hours sleep and don't drink after workout, just go to the boxing gym and have fun.

im just a yellow belt doing judo for about 4 months now, so far we've never done ground technics except one lesson of a basic pin
i haven't been taught any double leg takedowns and noone has used any during randori against me yet

2VGGV2

Also, there is evidence that suggests cannabis reduces overall inflammation (which also includes brain swelling from trauma), which would further help reduce the risks of CTE but this board is full of prude faggots so I'm saying it in a different post.

Damn that's sadly the case with most Judo gyms now days. Still a cool art but not learning ground techniques or the meta takedowns is a bummer.

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being repeatedly struck in the head has made you retarded, if your brain gets knocked around in your skull it will be damaged.

Yes, but unless you’re competing or training like an idiot the damage will never be enough to effect you in any meaningful way.

You must be Gerald McClellan then because you don't know how to read. Despite what your monkey-like intuition leads you to think, it turns out you (unsurprisingly) have no idea how an organ as complex as the brain works, let alone martial arts which I assume is the reason why you fearmonger about CTE on Any Forums: to keep others down at your level.