Tag Archives | mma combinations

Finishing the Angle (diary entry)

March 18, 2023 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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14.03.2023 Tuesday morning saw the end of my client’s teacher consultancy series focus on teaching a footwork pad-work pattern. After a warm-up, we went through all the combinations  With the MMA combinations, the only new alteration we made was to have the fighter drop between high and low stances whilst striking. This into account that although stability has to be sacrificed when trying to move in with a punching or kicking combination, the stance drops low to accommodate a low […]

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Switch-Kick/Single Leg Takedown (diary entry)

March 8, 2023 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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                06.03.2023 Hour four of my couple client’s Mixed Martial Arts course continued with our work using kicks to set up takedowns. We also stayed with the inside calf-kick entry. Tonight’s combination was a setup for the single leg. Unlike the double-leg, this takedown requires more to get on the blindside of the opponent. In order to get this angle, we used a double-kick attack. The calf-kick is immediately followed up with a […]

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More from the Grappling Angle (diary entry)

March 1, 2023 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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28.02.2023 Tuesday morning’s session continued with the expansive grappling version on the angling/circling footwork pattern with Athena School of Karate. We looked at sit-up out variation should an opponent sprawl and then at striking tangents from the sprawl and circle line. In the former (a late branch off from the footwork pattern) I brought in the circle round to back mount and choke. This is a simple submission response and offers a good staple counter to sprawling. In the latter […]

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Chaining Ground-Fighting (diary entry)

February 7, 2023 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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06.02.2023 My couple client’s second hour of their Mixed Martial Arts course was a review of the previous lesson, delving deeper into better transitioning and drilling, as well as chaining on ground-fighting. After our warm-up, we looked at the nature of drilling. It is important that drills efficiently learnt and understood. They have set purposes to improve certain behaviours that should transfer to sparring. Once a technique or combination or tactic is understood, it is important for both partners to […]

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Punching Combinations into Double Leg Takedowns (diary entry)

October 18, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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14.10.2022 My new Friday client continued into hour three of basic MMA course. We tightened up his guard, discussing the adaptations that need to be made in MMA due to the smaller gloves, and also addressed bad behaviours such as dropping defending hands when punching. Then we revised the punch-kick combinations introduced in the previous lesson followed by set-ups for the double-leg. The idea is to be able to adapt from punching combinations to punch/kick combinations to punch/takedown combinations. Services

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More Mixed Martial Art Combinations (diary entry)

July 14, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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13.07.2022 I introduced my Wednesday client to the MMA combinations I taught to Thursday night’s client. We also brought in some extra moves to catch a further retreating opponent. The lesson began with dynamic stretches and some simple line-work techniques before we covered the set-ups for downward angled jabs and crosses followed by leg-shoot set-ups for the two shovel hooks. These were performed as compliant combinations and then as live sparring drills. Next we addressed the back-peddling opponent. Again, the fighter […]

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Setting up for the Double Leg Shoot (diary entry)

March 16, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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14.03.2022 Monday brought my couple clients’ to the fourth hour of their current course on MMA clinch. We returned to covering eight MMA combinations specifically designed to set up the double-leg takedown. This week we covered combinations two and three. These are described in my previous lesson report from last Thursday.  Today we broke down different ways strikes can be used to make an opponent vulnerable for the double-leg shoot. Two obvious ways is to make the opponent adopt a […]

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MMA Combination 8 & The Dead Orchid (diary entry)

March 10, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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09.03.2022 Wednesday’s fifth and sixth lessons were junior MMA and senior Submission Grappling. In the former we looked closely at technique and the final combination of this set. In Submission Grappling we covered the dead orchid submission from the rubber guard. Junior MMA’s combination – slip/cross/hook/jab/jab/overhand right/double leg shot This combination begins with a power punch off a slip. Typically slipping is best done when an opponent throws a big punch and this slip cross is tailor made for taking […]

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MMA Combinations 5 and 6 (diary entry)

February 17, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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15.02.2022 Tuesday night saw my junior and senior clients work together for their monthly 1.5 hour intensive session. Here they learn how to hold and feed focus mitts as well as more time to spar and drill. The senior student benefits more by committing to the material being caught in playing a coaching role whereas the junior student gets more of a test with his resistance based work. Combination 5 – Catch kick/hook/cross/hook/double leg shoot This combination is a counter-attack, […]

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MMA Combos & Ground-Guard Revision (diary entry)

January 28, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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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 Combinations 1 and 2 (diary entry)

January 20, 2022 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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18.01.2022 Tuesday night’s first session saw the merge of my Junior and Senior private lessons for some extra work on developing Mixed Martial Arts combinations. After a thorough warm-up of specific training exercises on all the rangs of MMA, we began the first of a series of eight combinations. I also used the opportunity to coach better pad-holding. The combinations were. 1. Jab/tap inside leg/rear overhand/double-leg takedown 2. Jab/cross to the lead leg/lead hook/double-leg takedown We then completed 6 x […]

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Principles through Combination Work (diary entry)

November 22, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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21.11.19 Thursday night’s second lesson brought my client up to the four hour point on his latest Mixed Martial Arts course. Tonight’s objective was to go over the three striking to grappling combinations covered in last Thursday’s lesson and to begin more work on fighting against the cage as well ground-fighting. We began with mirror footwork followed by one-for-one sparring. We then drilled the plumb position, bulling with the collar and elbow, pummelling under-hooks into takedown entries and then some […]

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Scarf-Hold to Arm Bar Escape & MMA Combinations (diary entry)

November 22, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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20.11.19   Wednesday night’s junior lesson looked more into escapes from scarf-hold and introduced the arm-bar. The senior lesson repeated the combination taught to my client last Thursday and also added in some ground conditioning exercises.   The junior lesson got straight into partner warm-ups. We began with the transitioning pin drill. Then from here we revised escapes from side control and scarf-hold. Returning to scarf-hold, we looked at snaking to a submission. My client was introduced to the arm-bar. […]

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Firing High, Shooting Low (diary entry)

October 23, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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21.10.19   Monday night began my client’s new course on MMA. Having just come off a few stand-up striking orientated courses and we will be looking towards a submission grappling/ground-fighting course in the near future, these lessons will serve as a type of link. I will work a lot on the clinch as this is really the connecting range between stand-up and ground. Tonight we covered using strikes to set up for shoots.   We began with a thorough warm-up […]

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Pin Transitions & MMA Combinations Continue (diary entry)

October 10, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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09.10.19 Junior Basic Submission Grappling and Senior Mixed Martial Arts were Wednesday’s second lessons.  Submission Grappling finished the pinning drill. Mixed Martial Arts revised three combinations from last week’s lesson and introduced a new one as well three rounds of pad-work followed by a round of MMA sparring.   Submission Grappling re-confirmed the pins already covered as well as strong transitioning. Then I introduced the knee-pin, reverse scarf-hold and the mounted position. We went over the importance of filling in […]

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Submissions & MMA Combinations (diary entry)

October 3, 2019 | Diary / Training Notes [ssba]
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02.10.19 Wednesday’s second lesson was my regular junior/senior double private class. The junior lesson began my client’s course on submission grappling/ground-training and my senior lesson focused on MMA combination work. I introduced my junior client to ground-fighting with a series of basic specific callisthenics – bear crawls, lizard crawls, seal crawls, monkey crawls and snaking. We then looked at side-control and scarf-hold along with transitioning from these two pins. I also introduced north-south. After a warm-up of focus mitts/belly pad […]

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