Archive for Combat Sports
Jérôme Le Banner at Fukushima charity event
Posted by: | CommentsAfter the tsunami hit, Fukushima, Japan was pretty much devastated. But the Japanese people are resilient, to say the very least. Their society is such that they don’t start looting but help each other out. Here’s an example of such a charity event from a week ago.
Not only the Japanese people were there but you can also spot Jérôme Le Banner handing out free food. If K1 is new to you, you should know that its a big deal over there and JLB is pretty much a demi-god. It’s nice to see him being active in such a charity event.
Here’s the clip:
If you don’t know who Jérôme Le Banner is, here’s a highlight video:
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Yodsanklai Fairtex vs Artur Kyshenko – Rumble of the Kings 2011
Posted by: | CommentsHere’s a fight I have been waiting for: Yodsanklai Fairtex vs Artur Kyshenko at the Rumble of the Kings 2011.
Kyshenko is one of the fighters I like best right now. He’s had an interesting career and did pretty well in K1 at first. Then he had a rough patch but since he’s been training at Mike’s Gym in The Netherlands, he’s started making progress again. So I was curious to see how well he would do against a guy of the caliber of Yodsanklai. Pretty well as it turns out…
Here’s the video of the fight:
Some thoughts:
- Kyshenko did amazingly well in the first round. He pretty much controlled the distance and launched his combinations at will. Yodsanklai tried to get in a couple shots, including his famous left kick but Artur just used it against him with perfect timing. I’m sure Yod didn’t expect to get so much resistance from Artur. Read More→
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BJ Penn Vs Nick Diaz
Posted by: | CommentsI watched the BJ Penn vs Nick Diaz fight this weekend and just wanted to point something out:
BJ Penn vs Nick Diaz, BJ right after the fight.
Take another look at the One Step Sparring Drill, Frankenstein post I just did. One of the goals in the drill is to put the defender under a lot of pressure, all the time. The format here uses traditional techniques but you’re not limited to that. You can do the exact same drill wearing gloves and shinguards with the MMA or muay Thai rules as parameters. Then you get to practice the things I mentioned in that post but in the context of competitive combat sports.
The drill prepares you for just what BJ Penn encountered against Nick Diaz: an opponent who kept on coming forward, who never eased up on him and regardless of how hard BJ tried; he couldn’t stop him. KJust like the Frankenstein monster in the movies…
I’ll see if I can make a video of what this looks like in my class so you get an idea of what it looks like. But I just wanted to point that out in the mean time.
BTW, props to BJ for sticking with it. He had a real tough fight on his hands and didn’t quit when he took a beating. All his skill aside, you gotta give the man credit for having heart like that.
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Michael Jai White teaches Kimbo Slice some technique
Posted by: | CommentsHere’s a cool video I just found of Michael Jai White teaching Kimbo Slice some technique. There’s a lot of stuff in there I like but most of all, it’s nice to see Michael just talking and doing his thing without any ego or showing off. Neither does he make Kimbo look bad when he could have. And Kimbo shows a lot of respect so this video is cool on that level as well.
Anyway, watch it first and then I’ll give some of my thoughts on it:
Some random thoughts on all this:
Michael is right. The way you throw a punch and avoid telegraphing it makes a huge difference in it landing or not. Look at how his entire body moves in the first two jabs but only his arm moves in the third one. Even though that third jab is way slower, Kimbo doesn’t react in time against it. It looks like a trick but it isn’t. Loren and I covered the reasons for this in detail in our book Timing in the Fighting Arts. In a nutshell, it’s all about how the brain and eyes process information. Read More→
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