Online MMA Training

Judo often doesn’t get the attention that it deserves from MMA fighters and I’ve often thought that it has more to add to top level mixed martial arts than it currently does. I did study Judo myself for a couple of years but that was a while ago now and I’m a bit rusty on it, so I’ve been searching for good quality videos to highlight here. I’m sure I will add more later but I chose this one for know because it features a couple of really good counters to classic MMA takedown techniques, which I think is something else that is really under-utilised by almost all fighter – the sprawl really isn’t the only takedown defense as some people must think from the way that they fight. anyway, enough talk, here is the video:

Karo Parisyan – Judo For MMA Part 6 – The most amazing home videos are here

This is one of the most commonly used kicks in MMA, so its an important one to get right:

This video is a good introduction to learning basic striking for MMA, and demonstrates both the jab and cross punch:

Having looked at the basics of gaining a mount position, and using the guard to prevent your opponent from gaining a mount on you, the next step is to start looking at what you can do to escape from a mount. This video looks specifically at how to escape froma side mount:

This 3 strike elbow combination is brutally effective, and is particularly good when starting off at close range where most strikes aren’t going to be too powerful. There’s no spoken explanation to go with it, but the demonstration makes it pretty clear:

Although the ideal thing is obvious to avoid your opponent from getting the mount position on you, no fight ever goes completely to plan and you have to be ready to defends yourself, or even better to escape and get away from this difficult position. Here is one of the most basic mount escape techniques demonstrated in a short video:

It stands to reason that if the mount is the best position in MMA ground fighting, then you don’t only have to think about gaining the mount, but also about making sure that your opponent doesn’t gain the mount on you. The ‘guard’ is what you use to prevent this from happening, and just like with the mount there are actually a few different positions and techniques, each of which is a variation on the same theme. This video looks at the basics of what you need to know to use a guard in ground-fighting:

There are a small group of techniques which are absolutely fundamental to mixed martial arts and which any would be MMA fighter must know inside out and back to front. One of these techniques is the mount.

Anyone who has ever watched and MMA fight will know that most fights go down to the mat at some point, and that many fights are won and lost through grappling in this ‘ground game’. During this phase of a fight – when both fighters are grappling on the ground – there are two primary techniques (each of which has a number of different manifestations) which almost everything else is based on. These basic and fundamental techniques are the defensive ‘guard’ positions, and the offensive ‘mount’ positions. Basically the mount is when you have your opponent on their back and you assume the most dominant possible position for either moving into a submission hold or a ‘ground and pound’ knockout. The guard, which I will deal with in another post, is used to prevent the other person from gaining an mount position.

Here’s my pick of the two best online video tutorials demonstrating the basics of the MMA mount