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MMA Combos & Ground-Guard Revision (diary entry)

January 28, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
double leg takedown shadow

26.01.2022 My junior client went back through the first two MMA combinations we trained last week before I introduced combination no. 3. Step back/right cross/double-jab/angle-off/switch to southpaw/right hook/double leg takedown All combinations were shadowed, drilled against partners and then put onto the focus mits. The lesson finished with 2 x 2 minute rounds of MMA sparring. My senior client went through closed guard, butterfly guard and long guard basics for sweeps and submissions. Then we sparred for 3 x 5 […]

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MMA Escapes and Submissions Begin (diary entry)

September 3, 2018 | Uncategorized [ssba]
armbar from guard5 (close up)

01.09.18   This morning was my client’s penultimate lesson is a scheduled 10 hour course on MMA Ground-Fighting. After some discussion, we have decided to extend the course due to the sophisticated nature of submission fighting. Today we focused on basic escapes and began guard-work.   The warm-up was entirely geared towards callisthenics from underneath – snaking, bridging and crab-crawls. We then did a partner warm-up using bridges (upas) from underneath side-control.   We looked at escapes from four major […]

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