Mixed Martial Arts Training »

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 »

Ground-and-pound is a ground fighting tactic consisting of taking an opponent to the ground using a takedown or throw, obtaining a top position, and then striking the opponent. Ground-and-pound is also used as a precursor to attempting submission holds.

This style is used by wrestlers or other fighters well-versed in defending submission
holds and skilled at takedowns. They take the fight to the ground, maintain a grappling position, and strike until their opponent submits, is knocked out or is cut so badly that the fight cannot continue. Although not traditionally considered a conventional method of striking, the effectiveness and reliability (as well as recently-developing science) of this style is proven. Originally, most fighters who relied on striking on the ground were wrestlers, but considering how many fights end up on the ground and how increasingly competitive today’s MMA is, strikes on the ground are becoming more essential to a fighter’s training. Ground and Pound first came into the spotlight by 2000 Pride GP winner Mark Coleman.

Skills needed for Ground and Pound are…

• strong wrestling and takedown skills
• Good ground control and base
• Powerful ability from ground position
• Endurance to keep striking hard and fast
• Good jiu-jitsu submission defense

Tips for effective Ground and Pound

The Takedown

• Wrestling takedowns and throws are necessary.
• Work on high percentage takedowns
• Leg Trips, Double-leg, Single-leg takedowns:
• Drill MMA takedowns with partner throwing punches at you
• Your partner just throws punches while you work for the takedown
• Just wrestle – only go for takedowns when you spar.  Once someone goes down, start again

Positioning on the ground

• Next most important aspect of ground and pound training is gaining and controlling top position
• Work on just controlling the person in knee on stomach, side mount and mount.  Have your opponent try to escape while you just try to keep him down
• In guard, work on keeping your posture up and high.  Don’t let your opponent control your arms or head.  Work on creating distance to strike.

Striking on the ground

• Once you are comfortable controlling your opponent, work on striking and transitioning from different positions.  If you are in side control, work on transitioning from side control to mount and striking in all positions.
• Work on trapping opponents arms in side control and mount so you are able to strike without them blocking.  Matt Hughes does this to effectively.
• When striking from guard, work combinations to the body and head.  Don’t just be a head hunter.  Striking the body can cause a lot of damage.

Here are some training and sparring videos related to MMA ground and pound training

Tags: arts, association, boxing, brazilian, cage, champion, fighting, grappling, how, jujitsu, jujutsu, kickboxing, learn, martial, mixed, muay, shoot, shootfighting, stick, stickfighting, thai, to, ufc, wrestling Author:expertvillage View count: 9034 Rating: 4.47
	Mixed Martial Arts & Cage Fighting Basics : How to Ground & Pound in Mixed Martial Arts Description: How to ground and pound in mixed martial arts in this free mixed martial arts video from Brazilian Martial Arts master Ed Wedding….

Ground & Pound Training Description: Our ground & pound class using introduction, isolation and integration as the training method… Tags: Arts, Barred, Fighting, Ground, Holds, Martial, Mixed, MMA, No, Pound, Rules

Author:RobMcIntyre View count: 4783 Rating: 3.86

Ground & Pound Drills - H2O Martial Arts Description: This video technique series features H2O Martial Arts Instructor, Richard Ho, demonstrating a series of “BJJ Positioning Drills” & “MMA Ground & Pound Drills” using the floor bag…. Tags: &, arts, bjj, ground, h2o, ho, martial, mixed, mma, pound, richard, school

Author:filmricky View count: 14929 Rating: 4.38

Josh Schockman Ground and Pound class Description: UFC 65 Josh ‘The War Hammer” Schockman teaches the effective way to ground and pound your opponent at Nashville MMA…. Tags: ‘The, Hammer”, Josh, MMA, Nashville, Schockman, UFC, War

Author:spydergracie View count: 1616 Rating: 3.75

totalperformancesports-Ground and Pound Abs variation Description: CJ Murphy of TPS demonstrates a full arm extension of Ground and Pound bs using the Blast Straps from EliteFTS. This is a superior exercise for improving your punching power in the “Mount” position for MMA…. Tags: ab, and, fights, functional, ground, mma, performance, pound, sports, total, tps, training, ufc, ultimate

Author:Totalperformance1 View count: 1352 Rating: 5.00

Gina Carano vs. Laticia Persova - Girl Ground n Pound Description: World Extreme Fighting Gina Carano vs. Laticia Persova Summer 2006 - New Orleans… Tags: and, Carano, chicks, Extreme, Fight, Fighting, Gina, Girl, Girls, Ground, hot, Laticia, MMA, Persova, Pound, WEF, World

Author:toshtego View count: 290118 Rating: 4.59

beginning ground & pound Description: nick(on top)during his first day of MMA sparring and Tom during his third day!… Tags: &, fng’s, ground, jitsu, jiu, mma, pound

Author:jmtii77 View count: 1280 Rating:

Dan Severn Teaches Ground & Pound for NAPMA Description: Dan Severn Teaches Ground & Pound for NAPMA… Tags: Arts, Business, coaching, Edge, fighting, Fu, Karate, kickboxing, kung, Marketing, Martial, MMA, Muay, NAPMA, School, Thai

Author:NAPMAvideo View count: 5771 Rating: 5.00

Dan Severn Teaches Ground & Pound for NAPMA 2 Description: Dan Severn Teaches Ground & Pound for NAPMA… Tags: Arts, Business, coaching, Edge, fighting, Fu, Karate, kickboxing, kung, Marketing, Martial, MMA, Muay, NAPMA, School, Thai

Author:NAPMAvideo View count: 2848 Rating: 5.00

MMA light spar- Ground n pound Description: Ground with strikes, PMA Highlands Ranch… Tags: MMA, PMA, PremierMixedMArtialArts

Author:rguerr10 View count: 1835 Rating: 2.00

How to ground and pound Description: Me doing my ground and pound routine on a defenseless heavy bag. This is an older video where pride was still an organisation so I was training delevering knees to the head which is now considered now as a foul. Always put your weight on top of the bag, and switch sides. Putting your knee on the stomach is a powerful position that to make you develop groud punching mecanics…. Tags: combat, grappling, groundandpound, mma, mmatraining, nhb, nogijiujitsu, submissiongrappling, ufc, ultimatefighting, ultime

Author:figthersdreams View count: 6265 Rating: 4.00

Frank Trigg’s Ground ‘n Pound Description: One of the world’s most well known mixed martial arts competitors breaks down the fighting strategy know as “ground ‘n pound.” Volume 1 features kneeling and wrist positions, plus foot control. Volume 2 demonstrates advanced ground ‘n pound strategies including the surfboard stand-up, heel hooks and knee bars, plus review of positions and posture. To order thisup-publications/ProductDetails.aspx?I… Tags: arts, frank, grappling, insidekungfu, martial, publications, trigg, unique

Author:insidekungfu View count: 1087 Rating: 5.00