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If you watch Anderson training he looks lazy,he never seems to be kicking pad,bag or anything with full power.
So add age to that and poor conditioning and you get a snap.
It really is a pain when the UFC talk about what an epic Muay Thai fighter Anderson is when which world class Muay Thai fighter did he fight full Thai rules?
I think his style was more tricky kickboxing.
Conditioning is the key.
This
Anderson is a good mma striker, but not a world class striker
but my coach put it best when he said, "December 28, 2013- the day EVERYBODY became a leg kick expert" lol
You can't strengthen your shin bones.
The banana tree kicking method they do in Thailand may seem like it strengthens the bone but what it really does is just kill the nerves of the shin area so you won't feel checked kicks hurt you as much.
Is your coach bryan popejoy?
This!
A lot of MMA guys look at checks like they're just a block but they can be used offensively to hurt the kicker. Anderson was already getting his kicks checked and continued to telegraph them without setting them up with hand combinations or feints. That's on him, not a freak accident IMO.
You are correct, sir.Some people mentioned the importance of the technique (turning your hips). I wonder if the distinction between an inside and an outer low-kick also matters. As I searched YT for videos of leg breaking fights, I noticed that more of these breaks occurred with an inside low-kick (of course, could be just a coincidence). If that is true, my reasoning for that would be the following:
Inside low-kicks are typically done in a slight upward motion (as you're trying to hit the opponent's soft inner thigh), but if it gets checked, you are not only hitting into his hard knee cap - you are also hitting perpendicularly into his tight bone, which means there is a lot of resistance and the force will be transferred completely.
With outer low-kicks the movement of your leg is more likely horizontal or even in a downward motion, and even if it does get blocked with a knee, you are not hitting directly into his thigh bone, but at an angle, which means that the force vector is going to decompose in a different way.
I have always been taught to block with the thick upper part of the shin bone, not the kneecap or the femur (I suppose that was what you meant by "tight bone"?). The reason for why you don't block with the knee is that the kneecap will break sooner than the opponent's shin bone will. Sure, a fractured patella might not be as serious of an injury as a fractured tibia, but you will both be on crutches for some time.Inside low-kicks are typically done in a slight upward motion (as you're trying to hit the opponent's soft inner thigh), but if it gets checked, you are not only hitting into his hard knee cap - you are also hitting perpendicularly into his tight bone, which means there is a lot of resistance and the force will be transferred completely.
I have always been taught to block with the thick upper part of the shin bone, not the kneecap or the femur.
(I suppose that was what you meant by "tight bone"?).
From Muaythai focus facebook
Denpanom Rongriankhorat (red) and Uisiewpho Sujibameekiew (blue).
Pros aren't kicking banana trees as part of regular training that's a big myth. Most shin conditioning comes from the heavybag.