MMA Stuff

The Plastercast

You can tell a lot about someone by their foot movement and positioning. Your feet directly correlates with your striking and punching power. Punching power starts from the feet and travels all the way through your body to the end of your fist. This was described in the video about the Anatomy of a Knockout. [...]

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Pyramid Kicks

Here is a great drill that we do in our Muay Thai classes. It really builds up endurance and helps you perfect your roundhouse kicks. We usually do these with thai pads and a partner where you just do a bunch of kicks in a pyramid count. Pryamid Count? WTF? It’s simple, start with either [...]

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Set It Up With a Kick

Here’s a short post about something to think about when striking. An excellent way to get your hits in is the usage of punch/kick combos. The only way I can think of putting the usage of kicks and punches is, redirection. If you give your opponent a barrage of punches, they were most likely not [...]

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Boxing and MMA

At my school, like many others teach Muay Thai as the choice of striking. There’s nothing more devastating then the Thai clinch with some well executed leg kicks. The one thing I’ve noticed about Thai boxers is that their hands need some work. I personally feel more attention is directed towards the usage of kicks, [...]

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