Online MMA Training

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!

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.

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