Closing the distance in an MMA or street fight is a vital skill for a grappling martial artist. If you are dealing with a good striker in a mixed martial arts fight, and you need to bring them into your world, you need to train to close the distance. If you are a bouncer or fight yourself in a street fight scenario, training to closing the distance is necessary to keep from getting hit and quickly ending the fight. These concepts and training methods will teach you how to close the distance in MMA or any street fight scenario. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun
16
MMA Training to Close the Distance
posted by: mbryers in Combat Martial Arts, Grappling and Ju-Jitsu, Mixed Martial Arts Training on 06 16th, 2008 | | 1 Comment »
Apr
22
I’ve been training a lot lately and have gotten a lot of videos for posting and review. Here is what I have ready to go soon:
- Attacking with overhooks in guard
- Guard scarecrow drills
- Knee on stomach positioning and transitioning.
- TONS of live rolling footage and good techniques matches.
Be back soon!
Mar
31
Strikeforce middleweight champion Frank Shamrock fought San Shou star Cung Lee in an amazing MMA Fight on Saturday.
Frank promised to stand with Cung Lee and beat him on his feet. Shamrock remained true to part of his promise. He stood with Cung Lee for 3 rounds, but was unable to continue after the 3rd round because Cung Lee broke his arm from a kick! After the fight Frank Shamrock was humble and said the following: “Cung Le broke my right arm, I could feel the bones clicking together. Anyone who says Cung Le doesn’t know submissions … he put one on my arm.”
After a great first round, the tides slowly start changing in favor of Cung Lee. He continued to punish Shamrock with kicks, especially side kicks, and even caught him with a kick, spinning back fist combo. Cung Lee also nailed a freaking cool leg sweep that wipe the smile off of Frank’s face.
The third round actually showed the possibility of Shamrock coming back to him. He rallied late in the round and almost looked he could finish Cung Lee. But somewhere in the round, Cung Lee kicked Frank Shamrock in the wrist and broke it. At the end of the round Frank went down in his corner and called the fight.
Here are the videos of the fight, get them now before they’re taken down!
Mar
7
Real Kicking for a Real Street fight
Summary from Geoff Thompson’s Book: Real Kicking
To be a complete fighting martial artist you must know all combat ranges. Many martial artists think kicks should only be used for long range attacks. But in reality kicking can be used in any range, and used for setting up for other fight ending techniques or initiating grappling techniques. If you only ever use kicking technique once in your lifetime in a real street fight and it works for you, then all the years of martial arts kick training was worth it.
Feb
28
Probably one of the best episodes of The Human Weapon. Jason and Bill travel to Japan to train Judo, while receiving a lesson on the history or Judo, Jujutsu and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. They also train a "style" of judo called kosen judo, which focuses more on ne-waza and grappling techniques. The best part about this episode is that the Japanese Judo fighters don't take an easy on them. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
Feb
28
As stated in my last post: Staying on your feet in a real fight, the double leg and some wrestling takedowns are inherently dangerous. You typically fall to the ground, if you are untrained in takedowns, they are easily defended against, and they can take a longer time to execute. That being said, it is still one of the best takedowns for MMA and grappling. This post is going to be about the ranges in a street fight, what range is the optimum range and how to achieve it.
Feb
27
One of my favorite new shows is Fight Quest on the discovery channel. I think they are doing an excellent job of exploring all combat martial arts and gaining respect for the people studying them along the way. It is a great show that gives a great insight to a variety of martial arts.
Last week’s episode was on Krav Maga, and it was one of my favorites yet. I think one of the best scenes in the show was when Doug (rookie fighter, and Iraq Vet) was running through the wood and being attacked has he progressed. Along the way, the attackers would go after him one at a time, and if he wasn’t able to get by them of finish them, they ganged up on him. They REALLY went after him too, which is why I really like this show and episode. There was nooooo holding back. So during Doug’s run he kept trying to take the person down with a double leg, and then falling to the ground. This is a far too common response for people who are amateur or wanna-be MMA fighters, or BJJ grapplers. Everyone is taught the double-leg, but “few” really know the variations and correct times to use it….especially in a real fight scenario.
Obviously the double-leg is an effective technique in a one on one situation if you are fighting someone who has no experience with wrestling or has weak power in their hips and legs. The difference when executing the double-leg in the street or real combat scenario is that you should NOT EVER take a knee or do a low-shot. Once you do that, consider the fight over. And I’m not talking about a little high school fight. I’m talking full-on, save your life type fight - someone’s robbing you, attacking you, attacking your girl, whatever. Not someone stole my lunch money fight.
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Feb
26
These tactics of defence and counter attack combine the essential elements of Jiu Jitsu, Savate, American wrestling and plain rough and tumble fighting. But first, let us examine some of the basic fundamentals.
Feb
26
I found this post on MartialViews.blogspot.com. Its Bas Rutten attacking a girl and the girl doing what we call in Ju-Jitsu a Sukui-Nage. We do it from a full-nelson, choke, and rear hug. This picture is deceiving and the way it is done will never work. She will never be able to pick up a 210 lb Bas Rutten. The way it is effective is by grabbing low at the ankle level and pulling the person out, not trying to pick them up.
The technique can be effective if taught and executed properly. But you also have to be realistic. If you got a big ass dude behind you choking you, pulling off a technique such as this, is near impossible
Image courtesy of USA Weekend
Feb
25
Are you a MMA tool? 10 ways to find out if you are!
posted by: mbryers in Combat Martial Arts, Philosophy and Thoughts on 02 25th, 2008 | | 2 Comments »
I have been training martial arts seriously for a little over 10 years, and off and on for about 15. I do not consider myself a Mixed Martial Arts Fighter. I consider myself a martial artist and a ju-jitsu “artist”. You can read a little bit about me here: http://www.kobukaijujitsu.com/resume.html (I’m Matt). I do have a great deal of experience with MMA though. I have worked with a lot of MMA fighters. I have helped prepare them for fights, and have even cornered for them. One of the things I am starting to despise, as MMA gets more popular, are people pretending they are MMA fighters. I understand with every main stream sport this happens and I think it’s actually great that MMA is getting this popular. The thing about it is, MMA has “Martial Arts” in it’s name. I don’t think these wannabe tools fully understand the meaning of that. Martial arts is just not about beating up other up. Its a unique experience that can only be had by actually taking the journey. When I see or hear these things (this is a list of actual things I have experienced in my years of training), it frustrates me a little. But the reason it frustrates me is because of the way I experienced martial arts and that these people just don’t “get” what its really like to train and be a martial artist.
So, here is my list of 10 ways to know if you are an MMA Tool, enjoy!
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