MMA technique of the week: How to do a lead leg superman kick
Written By: ProMMA Staff
German Baltazar, a fight team member out of Big John McCarthy’s Ultimate Training Academy, teaches us how to do a lead leg Superman kick. This is a technique that has been used effectively by fighters such as Georges St. Pierre. It’s a little tricky to learn because of the technicality, but once you get it, you will have your opponent expecting one thing and being hit with something else. Good luck!
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Alabama: Sweet home for MMA
Written By: James Kimball (MMAmania.com)
Forty-six down, four to go.
The state of Alabama has finally legalized mixed martial arts action leaving only Connecticut, West Virginia, Vermont, and of course, New York as the only states who don’t want to make any money, err, I mean who refuse to sanction MMA.
Dana White tweeted the good news yesterday.
Fancy ‘pants?’ Sotiropoulos draws ire from MMA boards over UFC 110 wardrobe choice
Written By: Jesse Holland (MMAmania.com)
Props: MMA.tv (via Bloody Elbow)
Quoteworthy:
He just so happen to have injuries to both knees and both ankles? I have no issue with it at all – but between the giant knee and ankle braces and long tights under his shorts – the dude is essentially wearing pants in the octagon – less than 20% of his lower body is not covered in neoprene Pants are cool, they should be legal, Aoki pants or Gi pants – its juts funny that he just comically skirts the rule against ‘pants’. I can see an opponent questioning his attire if they wanted to.
Did the modified wardrobe give the Aussie an Outback advantage over Joe Stevenson? Or was “Daddy” in over his head regardless of traction?
UFC 109: The story of one man’s ‘Relentless’ conversion to MMA fandom
Written By: James Kimball (MMAmania.com)
I know, it’s hard for us to believe that there are twenty-something males out there who are die hard sports fans that don’t know a thing about our beloved sport of mixed martial arts — nor do they care to.
I’m sure that there are plenty of them that surround us daily, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not baffled as to why they couldn’t care less. I happen to work with a few gentlemen who fit this description “to a T” over at the SB Nation.
It’s not their fault.
They’re not ignoring our sport on purpose. They just haven’t been exposed to that one moment that each of us have experienced at some point in our lives that made us fall in love with the purest form of sport known to man.
That all changed for one person this weekend. Senior Editor at SB Nation, Andrew Sharp, was in attendance at UFC 109. It was the first time he had ever seen what the sport was all about. He had his preconceived notions going in, and they weren’t all favorable. But like many of us now know, it takes just one truly memorable experience with the sport to become hooked.
Mr. Sharp tells a great story of how it happened to him.
MMA critic says sport is bad for Wisconsin
Written By: ProMMA
There are still people out there who have a skewed view of what mixed martial arts is all about. Read how one critic of the new Wisconsin legislation to legalize MMA describes the sport:
Think for a moment about the sublime grace and dignity of baseball. Or the discipline and controlled force of football. Then think of the exact opposite and you’ve got MMA. It is barbaric pummeling of one individual by another. They snarl and kick and jump on damaged opponents. They pound heads into the ground. I don’t think they bite, but I can’t be sure. Blood doesn’t stop the show, in fact it just fuels the battle.
And the crowds that attend these events are as much of a show as they fighters. They hurl blood-curdling screams at the fighters. They roar for pain and damage. There is no admiration for pure skills. The praise is showered on the most brutal in the ring.
Normally, Pro MMA Now (www.prommanow.com) would not even waste space by giving an article like this any attention. However, once in awhile ignorance needs a kick in the ass.
Obviously, the author of this feeble diatribe is a fan of football, so let us compare football to what he says about MMA:
“Think for a moment about… the discipline and controlled force of football. Then think of the exact opposite and you’ve got MMA.”
This statement makes little sense. If he does not even understand the discipline it takes to be a mixed martial artist, or a martial artist of any kind, it is evident we are dealing with someone who is not interested in truth, but propaganda. And his reference to “the controlled force of football” could mean a few things, none of which he makes very clear. When a defensive player smashes a running back to the ground, do you really think he is trying to control how hard he hits the guy? It is not too clear what “controlled force” he is referring to, and more than likely, he is not sure what he really means either.
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Cris Cyborg: Leader of the Pack
Written By: TheGARV
Great quote from Cris Cyborg today at the Strikeforce conference call. She was asked: Cris, you beat Gina Carano, who was the face of women’s MMA fighting. I guess now you are the face of women’s MMA fighting. Do you like that role? Cyborg replied:
I wasn’t thinking about who is the face of MMA when I fought Gina. Gina was just another opponent like anyone else. With me being the face of women’s MMA or not, I’m just going over there and doing my job, making sure I’m training hard and leading up the pack for all women in MMA.
Aftershocks of Haiti’s earthquake shake MMA community
Written By: Jesse Holland (MMAmania.com)
A devastating 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti late Tuesday afternoon, bringing the city of Port-au-Prince to its knees and leaving what may amount to several hundred thousand dead and severely wounded.
As with any natural disaster, the farther away it is from home, the more difficult it is to understand and appreciate the horrors associated with the aftermath.
Unless you’re former UFC fighter David Loiseau.
“The Crow,” whose parents are Haitian, moved to Canada as a boy but still has family living in Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas, including his uncle and grandparents.
They have not been heard from since Tuesday.
From Loiseau, courtesy of Sherdog.com:
Dissection by Dallas: Diaz x Maynard
Written By: Dallas Winston (TheGarv.com)
It seems odd that Gray Maynard is technically undefeated and rightfully closer to a title shot than Nate Diaz.
Maynard has a total of 9 fights on his career MMA record, and starting with his win over Manny Gamburyan to win Season 5 of The Ultimate Fighter, Diaz has fought 8 times just in his post-TUF ventures. The young Stockton shit-talker has also faced a slightly higher level of adversity inside the octagon, squaring off with established top contenders Joe Stevenson, Clay Guida, and Kurt Pellegrino, along with dangerous mid-level opposition like slugger Melvin Guillard and the resilient Josh Neer.
Did I mention that Diaz also submitted Maynard with a guillotine to knock him out of the running on TUF 5?
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