Archive for January, 2010
A few videos for you…
Posted by: | CommentsCame across 2 videos I had to share…
Don’t mess with politicians that know judo!
and a top MMA Prospect
Enjoy!
A Reality Show's Final Cut
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Training with Rubens "Charles" Cobrinha
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Over the last few days I’ve had the pleasure of training with Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles. A four time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champ, Cobrinha is has some awesome skills on the mat. On top of that he’s a great teacher, able to pass on his techniques with great detail.
Last night, over thirty of my students were immersed in a guard passing/side control workshop at Joslin’s MMA that consisted of 2 hours of technical practice and close to an hour of rolling afterward.
Much thanks to Cobrinha for teaching an awesome workshop, Dan Hale for setting it up and thanks to all who participated in the event. Hope we can do it again soon!
At the very end Cobrinha took a moment to share a technique for the blog. Enjoy!
BJ Penn MMA Guard Pass #2 of 5
Posted by: | CommentsVideo #2 of my MMA passing the guard series is now up. This pass is great because you move right into the mount position putting your opponent is a lot of trouble.
BJ pulls it off nicely! The highlight video I found doesn’t show him getting into that position so I show how to apply it from the within butterfly guard.
This is one of my most effective passes from that position. I like it because it gives me a chance to put a lot of pressure down on my opponent. It also great to use in a few other situations.
2010 Workshop Schedule Now Online!
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I just finished setting up the 2010 schedule for my focused martial arts workshops. I’ll be teaching 2 per month, one focusing on ground technique the other on striking. Sign up early and get a great discount!
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Top 10 Ways to Become a Great Fighter!
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I get asked a lot by people what does it take to make it to the UFC? That’s a tough question.
Throughout my career I never thought solely about the end goal of competing at the highest level of mixed martial arts competition. Instead I looked to improve my skills a daily basis; To get stronger in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, become a more dangerous striker, grow more talented in wrestling. My drive was to become the greatest fighter I could be knowing that if I continued to improve with each passing day, good things would come of it.
Along my journey I realized a few things that may help you along your own MMA path. Here they are:
1) Be humble – Realize you have a lot to learn and search it out
2) Don’t take your losses too seriously – Getting tapped in training, losing a tournament match or not coming out a winner during an MMA fight are all unavoidable occurrences on your way to becoming a great fighter.
3) Train with skilled partners – Try to wrestle with those that can wrestle, box with those that can box and so on…
4) Find a knowledgeable strength and conditioning coach and get yourself in the best shape possible. Your training sessions will be more productive and you’ll make greater gains with less effort.
5) Read books. Books about Martial arts technique, strategies and training; autobiographies about mixed martial artists and other athletes who have achieved the type of success you are looking to achieve; and books that focus on positive thinking, meditation and mental preparation for sports competition.
6) Compete as often as you can in a variety of martial arts and combat disciplines such as boxing, kickboxing, wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
7) Train in group classes, participate in seminars, take private lessons, watch instructional videos and videos of fights. And when you’re not training, visualize your training; reviewing in your mind what you have worked on lately and the things you plan to focus on in the future.
8 ) Keep a log of your training activities. Set a schedule as to what practice sessions you will attend for any given week and stick to it. Don’t allow yourself to miss class by making some random excuse.
9) When you go on vacation or are in the midst of travelling try to find places to train wherever you are go. It’s a lot of fun and very beneficial to roll, spar, practice and share ideas with new people so make sure you do it whenever you get the chance.
10) Believe in yourself. Know deep down inside that you will become a great fighter and achieve all of your dreams.
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Breaking down some of BJ Penn's Guard Passes
Posted by: | CommentsI recently came across a video on the internet, created by a fan, showing BJ Penn passing the guard of several opponents during a his fights.
He does some really cool guard passing techniques in the video, but the technical details of those movements are very difficult to pick up simply by watching the footage. It gave me a great idea!
I hit the gym and created my own video to help you learn each movement BJ does to pass guard in that video.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll post a new video that breaks down one of five different guard passes, providing detailed instructions on how to pull them off in action.
Randy Couture – Divorce Attorney
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MMA Training Tip – Mindset #2
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The Rough Guy
Often a student new to mixed martial arts training will attempt to make up for lack of technique with brute strength and intensity, especially during groundwork training. This is a mistake in many ways.
First off if the student is stronger and heavier than the other students in class, they may achieve some success when using strength, and will most likely not realize the importance of acquiring the technical precision that will be necessary when they are facing an opponent who is physically stronger than them.
As an instructor, I’ll deal with the roughly aggressive type of student the moment I recognize them as such. My reasoning is simple. That type of student will more times than not, injure another student by being aggressive in a non-technical way. I’ve watched classes where new, smaller statured students have been twisted, squeezed, crunched and slammed by their larger partners to the point where they would scream in pain.
Don’t become known as the rough guy in your martial arts school. Nobody likes that guy!
Train in an intelligent and safe way allowing the techniques to do the work for you. When learning and applying submission holds, apply pressure gradually and be on the lookout for some form of tapping out by your partner as they new students often forget to do so in an obvious enough way. A good rule to follow is that “in training it’s better to have an opponent escape your submission attempt because your applied pressure gradually than to have them become injured because you cranked it on too fast.”
BJ Penn Passing Guard Video
Posted by: | CommentsSurfing the internet I came across this cool video that someone put together showing some of BJ Penn’s guard passing skills.
He does some really great stuff on the ground that is rarely seen outside of BJJ tournaments.
Check it out!
