At any rate, you can train MMA without having a high risk of getting a concussion. Your greatest chance of picking one up in training would be hard sparring, but honestly, you shouldn't be sparring hard every session, or even most sessions. That just produces brawlers with no technique. You can still do grappling (drills, sparring) as well as pad work, bag work, and partner striking drills, and while it doesn't completely eliminate the possibility of a concussion (accidents happen, after all), it does greatly reduce them. Even sparring doesn't have to be balls-out all the time; most of the sparring I've done has been about 70%, and while, again, it doesn't eliminate the possibility of a concussion, it definitely reduces it compared to going 100%, which you should never really be doing in the gym.
So unless your concussions have had some great effect on your ability to function (mine left me with dizzy spells for a few months, for example), there should be no reason for you NOT to train, if you do it smartly, in a safe environment, with partners you trust.
As far as "tournaments", MMA competitions don't really use a tournament format these days. You'd have a pre-fight physical that, depending on the athletic commission, might include a CT scan, but would definitely include enough of an examination to determine if you're OK to fight or not. You'd likely have a month or more to prepare, and it wouldn't be until you've been training for a few years, anyway.
You should really be talking to your doctor about this. Three concussions in a year is not good and you don't say how you got them or the circumstances surrounding them. There are indeed some people that have a higher chance of concussion or a predisposition for getting them and then those types of people need to usually re-frame from contact sports. I have had people who trained before who were not allowed to spare for this reason who still wanted to train. I just was not willing to allow them to spar, putting me at risk for a potential lawsuit down the road.
Now I am sure you will find places out there that won't care about this so much but when you consider the neurological devastates that you could suffer like losing your vision or some other such problem it just is not worth it.
You can learn some elements of it. You certainly can do grappling, Brazilian jiu jitsu, and wrestling. You can even practice Muay Thai or kickboxing with your legs.
Listen to your doctor about when (if ever) it'll be safe to take strikes to the head. Concussions are tricky and dangerous and even medical science doesn't fully understand them. But you definitely need to fully recover and give your brain a chance to heal before risking head strikes.
Hope that helps.
first you need to get the ok from your doctor, multiple concussions in a short time is not good people have died from this. it can take months just to recover from one let alone multiple ones.
you shouldnt be doing anything that is physical until your doctor clears you
Unique situation, I'm 16 I have had 3 concussions this year. Could I partake in mma? ik I can't do sparring and such right now but could I do it later like in a year or so? And also do tournaments and such
