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.

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 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:

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:

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:

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: