MMA Stuff

Combat Sports Hybrid Fight Gloves

These gloves have lasted me for two years of throwing combinations against sparring partners, dropping bombs during ground & pound and throwing thousands of punches during drills. These 70$ gloves are obviously from Combat Sports which are great for MMA sparring. There is a great amount of technology below the surface of the gloves that [...]

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Complete Conditioning for Martial Arts

I picked up this book from the Martial Arts section at Borders for about 20 bucks. It’s called Complete Conditioning for Martial Arts by Sean Cochran. Overall it’s a great book to have in your library. Though the name of the book can be deceiving because a lot of the content is Strength Training related. [...]

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Cryogel – “Iceyhot with Crack”

I picked up a few samples of this stuff called Cryogel from some merchandise table at the NAGA Championships. It’s basically a soothing agent for sore muscles like iceyhot or tiger balm. Cryogel is a “Natural coolant Gel with Arnica” (That’s what the sample says). Arnica is currently used in liniment and ointment preparations used [...]

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Ringside Heavy Hitters Review

The first pair of gloves I purchased when I started training were them cheap boxing gloves you’d find at your local sports store. The velcro loop broke within a few months. It was a big waste of money. Someone I trained with brought in a pair of Heavy Hitter gloves and I thought to myself, [...]

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