Last weeks fight, this is just the balcony footage, they will be realising the ringside footage in a couple weeks once the editing has been done.



My Thoughts;

- Overall I was happy with the fight, I won and it was quick but there was some things i need to work on.

- I couldnt stand with him, he was a thai boxer, whereas i train more BJJ/Sub Grappling so my stand up needs to improve.

- My wrestling takedowns need to get better. I struggled getting him down against the cage.

- Judo works.

- My G&P and BJJ is at a decent level for now.

- BRING ON THE NEXT ONE IN SEPT!!

well done pal , that judo roll take down turned me on!

Good stuff!

You totally dominate bigger guy and the judo roll is fucking sexy!!

Nice, roll was really nicely executed dude!

Re your wrestling, I would say you need to work on your pentration step & explosiveness. The top guys drop down incredibly fast then with that momentum they really drive through their opponent. I think you struggled because you didn't have that initial explosion & technique.

I agree cheers niknak, im working almost exclusivley on my wrestling for now, found an awesome club not too far from me. The coach is a world veterans silver medalist and his lad fought in the commonwealth games, so the pedigree there is high.

Wrestling is physically the most demanding sport i have ever trained in but also one of the most enjoyable too. Looking forward to training and improving in it.

Nice...lucky you have a club near you cos they are few and far between!

Many fighters at lower level in the UK don't have well developed wrestling skillsets, so get a decent base and I reckon you'll tear through people

Been up North for three weeks and done a few classes:

Brazillion Ju-jitsu

Been to a couple of these. Got to wear a gi and everything. It's like fighting a load of snakes this BJJ! So wriggly and if I'm not careful I get owned by guys much smaller then me.

I have found the key thing is to be staying in tight and be slow and methodical. I started off too aggressive and it ends up getting me tired quick.

My strength actually hinders my learning here I think, as whilst I seem to dominate in sparring sometimes it is down to me being stronger rather than my technique – which is still shite!

Boxing

Done a couple of classes in this and it is definitely my achilles heel. Keep on getting punched in the face which is a bit crap. I lack the co-ordination, speed and finesse to be good at this yet, but I am learning. Just little things like keeping my guard up and the constant moving, ducking and diving are already better.

I find this far more intimidating than kick boxing as you have to get up close to actually punch them. Kick boxing I relied on my legs too much and didn’t pay attention to my upper body.

Wrestling

Woohoo I fucking love wrestling! I'm good at this one. Been to 3 of these. Hardly anyone goes to this class. I think quite a few people are scarred because it so rough, which means I get to learn loads due to small class size.

Like with martial arts in general it all seems to be about the hips and core strength. We do all these mental neck exercises and other strange conditioning techniques. The instructor is this Romanian dude who is pretty small but strong as fuck.

Again my strength helps me a lot here and out of everything I find the techniques here easiest to pick up. However it is scary when a guy bigger than you picks you up and your just hoping he doesn’t dump you on your head!


MMA - 1 hour conditioning, 1 hour technique

Been to a couple of these too. Conditioning is tough! Start with a warm up and then some shadow boxing. Then we do loads of crazy exercises. Loads of press-ups, fucking loads of press ups as well as the usual million and one types of sit-ups too! We then do a bit more sparring just with boxing, which is useful for me.

In the second hour it is more like the BJJ class, although we tend to do quite a few throws and stuff too. More rolling, which is cool.

Overall

I really have enjoyed all of the above and am well into the grappling. Boxing, not so much, but appreciate it is important. This stuff does seem to make you really happy and like I said before does make a man out of you too! Would recommend it to all.

I am moving to the Caribbean tomorrow morning. I hope they have something like this over there. At the moment all I have seen is karate, which I want to avoid!

Huge MMA fan. Used to cover the sport as a journo for sports networks and web sites in the US/UK. Done alot less of that work in recent years (out of circumstance rather than choice) but still a huge fan of the sport.

Btw...How fucking good was Frankie Edgar? Best MMA comeback ever? It's up there for my money...

Second best. Did you see his first fight with Maynard? :-P

done a few diff MMA

BJJ
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im doin sambo at the mo VERY VERY good