Mens Fitness magazine seems to have an entire section dedicated to interval training circuits employed by UFC fighters. Interestingly, one of these is an abridged clip of one Thiago Alves has used. Designed by Carlos Santana, famous trainer to the stars from the IHP (Institute of Human Performance). The circuit does look tough and comprises of a variety of exercises to be performed for a minute with 15 seconds gap between each. The idea...
Lyoto Machida has taken the MMA world by storm. He has brought something a bit different to the table, his fighting style incorporates his Shotokan and specifically sport karate background, which along with his other martial arts training has helped him fight his way to the UFC Light Heavyweight Title. He has had the karate forums buzzing due to the success of one of their own. For non-karate background MMA fighters he has proved...
After the rather unexciting fight card of UFC 110 this weekend’s event features a Welterweight title fight between Canadian George St.Pierre and Dan Hardy from Nottingham. On the surface it seems as though Hardy will simply be just another victim for GSP, as he is relatively untested in the UFC. But Hardy is dangerous, he’s an athletic busy fighter, very strong standing up with plenty KO power. He has spent time training with Freddie...
UFC 121: Velasquez Lesnar main event The main event of the evening at UFC 121 was the Velasquez Lesnar fight for the heavyweight Championship. Scheduled for five rounds the fight failed to get through the first. Unsurprisingly, Lesnar came out of the blocks fast and rushed Velasquez going for takedowns which failed or were negated immediately. When trading punches Lesnar missed but Velasquez hit, which was the real difference. Velasquez managed to get Lesnar...
Jon Fitch vs Johny Hendricks With the UFC being increasingly strict, getting videos that last of Friday nights UFC 141 show is not straightforawrd, certainly ones you can embed. So I’m almost overjoyed to have this link of Jon Fitch against Johny Hendricks from UFC 141, the last of 2011. With GSP out for some time I was expecting Jon Fitch to dominate the welterweight division. But as is often the case with MMA there...
I’ve just come across an excellent article which could serve as a great reference for self defence classes but the post reputes that MMA shares principles with self defence. On the whole, it is very good, but it suffers from a bias against MMA rampant in the self defence fraternity and it’s one that bugs me. Put simply self defence classes and MMA share more than people would like to give credit. Many think...
We’ve been working on distance and timing recently and this post will attempt to define and illustrate some of that work with video of exceptional boxing defense. I learnt very little about this subject before training at Primal where it was given great importance. It seems that this area of training is often neglected in many forms of martial arts, although it should not be. I am not the only person with this opinion,...
A critical quality of a true champion is the ability to keep fighting when the going gets tough. This never say die attitude will get the champion out of seemingly impossible situations to claim the win. There’s nothing more exciting to watch than a dramatic comeback from the (apparently) dead. If a comeback happens quickly then it is all the more dramatic and all the more exciting. On the other hand a comeback at...
Cool, calm and destructive, Fedor Emelianenko is considered by most to be the greatest fighter in MMA. I love how the calm approach explodes into destructive violence as he mashes opponent after opponent. Dana White (UFC boss) offered Fedor an ‘unsignable’ contract when UFC took over Pride Championships, which effectively removed any chance of Fedor fighting Couture, which was THE fight everyone wanted to see. This was and remains a big shame. Since then...
Attended the BAMMA show at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham last night. I’ve been to a BAMMA show before and it is some way below the level of the UFC but the organisation are having a good go and seem to want to create the best MMA shows in Europe, which could make it a feeder for the UFC one day. Tonight we had Paul Daley and Twinkle Trigg but with Nate Marquardt...
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