Online MMA Training

Take a look at this article entitled ‘how to punch‘ published on hubpages. It focusses on the basic principles that are true for pretty much any techniques, and also has a couple of videos and links to other resouurces for punching techniques.

This is a great one for fitness as it is quite an intense exericise, paritularly if you are good at it. Basically you start with a one on one with each person aiming to get a takedown or throw on the other guy. it’s up to you whether you allow strikes, but to win you have to put the other guy on the mat. Then it’s just winner stays on with new fighters coming in as quickly as possible after each round so you don’t have time to recover. A variation on this is to play loser stays on instead, so that if you have people in the class who are weak on throws and takedowns they will get plenty of chance to practice them!

Learn how to perform the omoplata submission with this video tutorial:

Another great sparring exercise, similar to the first one I wrote about, is to have one person who can only kick, and the other person who can only use throws and takedowns. This is one of the most commonly used training exercises in San Shou (a kind of Chinese kickboxing which includes throws and takedowns). One of the best defenses against a kick is to try to catch hold of it, or to sweep or throw your opponont when they are standing on one leg. Using this kind of sparring exercise in your training can be a really good way to get some realistic practice of doing this, and on the other side you learn how to throw effective kicks without leaving yourself too open to the most common counter attack techniques that might be used against you.

The scarf hold is often amongst of the first ground fighting holds learned in an MMA class. It is a relatively easy hold to get into and to get right, it is an effective way to control an opponent on the ground, and can be a good set up for a submission hold. Here are two video demonstrating how to perform the scarf hold and how to escape from it:

The demonstration in this video isn’t actually done all that well, but the technique to set up a powerful elbow strike from the clinch position and then go into a controlling grab is a good technique:

The Kimura Drill is a great way to combine strength and conditioning training for your abs and other core muscles with practicing some of your basic ground fighting skills. The drill is actually based on repeating the same movment, which is a set up to a submission hold, over and over again so that it becomes automatic and you can perform it faster. This video demonstrates the drill and the submission hold that it is based on:

Most MMA fighters these days train in aspects of Muay Thai. Thai boxing uses knee strikes heavily, particularly to the midsection as a way to wear and opponent down. Right at the top of the list of Muay Thai techniques is the ‘clinch’ and how to use it to control an opponent and deliver knee strikes. Heres a couple of videos about learning and using the Muay Thai clinch:

Learning the clinch:

Knee Strike from Clinch:

Another MMA grappling video demonstrating what Judo has to offer for the cage fighter:

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Although the side mount is a good position if you can get it, and it is possible to get a submission and win a fight from here, the full mount is a much more dominant position if you can get it. So here is a short video showing you how you can push through from a side-mount into a full mount: