Finnegan's Wake

I've always been under the impression that since the power comes only from your hips with the side knees, that you have to turn out your entire body. So yeah, you'll want to be up on your toe and as you rotate your hip HARD, you'll turn your foot as well.
 
MMA Fight Team training
2 hours

Got straight to the point. 5 minutes warm up then:

Ironman Grappling: Person in the middle gets a new opponent every two minutes, total of 3 opponents.

Highlights: Spent most of the time in dominant positions. Got a few sweeps/ escapes when I was in bad ones. Stuffed most takedowns.

Lowlights: Got backmounted, again. I'm getting tired of that.

Ironman Kickboxing: (Hard sparring, 70-80% power, no headgear, 16oz gloves, light knee contact)
Person in the middle gets a new opponent every minute. Total time in the center: 3 minutes

Highlights:
KO'd a guy w/ a left uppercut to the body. He pulled back at the slightly telegraphed uppercut exactly as I wanted him to, and I nailed him hard in the liver w/ an uppercut. He doubled over and layed on the floor for a while.
Ate everyone alive w/ lowkicks. They forgot what it feels like or something. Anyway, everyone but me limped home tonight.
Checked lowkicks well.
Got the clinch on everyone.
Good, solid uppercuts
Rolled w/ punches/ good head movement for the most part
landed some good body kicks as well.

Lowlights:
Fell back into sniping mode for about half the time. Dropped hands a little on the last time in.
Tried to trade jabs w/ guy that had longer reach than me. Not a good idea.
That's about it, really. I did pretty good tonight.

Instruction: Lowkicks.
I worked with the tall lightweight on throwing Thai style lowkicks. He caught on pretty quick. Worked with him on hooks, body shots, etc. Basically everything I landed on him, he wanted some help with.

Impressions:
So, this is what its like to go to practice well fed and without a hangover. Interesting.
I signed my bout agreement tonight. Now its all up to them to find me an opponent. Hope to know soon.
 
Nice man, sounds like you were doing pretty good tonight. Low kicks can be a lethal weapon, especially if you're doing it thai style with your shin
 
Hahah....yea good nutrition and a nights sleep can go a long way to helping you be in tip top shape for workouts/practices...

i feel kind of bad for that guy that got KOed.....how big was he?

as always good job..
 
It was the 6'2 tall lightweight. He had the reach on me, so I worked angles and body shots.
After he recovered, I said "Don't worry about it, man. This is why they have weight classes." He agreed, we shook hands, and were back at it next go around.

Yeah, my lowkicks have always been a good weapon of mine. I got some pointers from one of Tamil's coaches and drilled it last night. Really paid off today. Turned my hip over much, much better; and at closer to full power, I was doing a bit of damage. We've got one more "hard" spar Monday, and then its all technical sparring, technique, and conditioning.
 
Nice liver shot. Was there a short delay in him feeling the pain? I love that. You hit the liver, they take a step back and collapse.
 
Haha, awesome. Your teammates still have some time left to get some shin conditioning in and learn decent clinch defense.

Will there be a video forthcoming?
 
No video. We were moving pretty fast, and no one wanted to deal w/ my shitty camera.
 
I like the ironman style training.. guys with fights coming up always do that in my gym. it builds mental toughness like nothing I have ever done before.


just maybe do it a bit longer eh? Be in the middle for the full length of your fight so you can really gauge where you're at.
 
MMA:
1 1/2 hours

Kickboxing:
6 three minute rounds, headgear, Truth gloves, 20-50% power. My opponent is the superheavy from the vids; first time for back in since he's let his foot heal up. Second opponent was the owner of the school, 3rd degree blackbelt in Shotokan.
First three rounds were really light (20%) just to get the superheavy used to the change in range w/ smaller gloves and to make sure his foot could handle it.
Second 3 rounds were at 50%, so I'll only address them.

Highlights:
Body uppercuts are fucking awesome. Didn't drop him, but landed them nicely.
Rolled well with most punches/ Kept chin down and head movement.
Leg kicks were good.

Lowlights:
Got popped hard in the nose. Again.
Tough to find range for hooks today.
Got stuck in "boxing" mode since that's all me and this guy have been sparring each other in for the last two months. A good front kick to my guts snapped me out of that one

Vs School Owner: 2 rounds, 2 minutes each

Highlights:
Blocked/ checked kicks well.
Good lowkicks. Caught him a few times.
Landed a good overhand right.

Lowlights:
Left myself open a few times countering unexpected attacks.
Didn't attempt any clinching, which I should have done in retrospect.

Instruction:
Brand new guy wandered in and wanted to learn boxing. I showed him what I knew and recited what I could remember from Brandon's posts. Held the pads for him for a bit, did some bagwork with him, etc.

Impressions:
Light day today since we did hard sparring last night. Not too bad overall, but I was def. a bit off today for some reason.
Found out the new BJJ instructor is willing to work w/ the fight team for prep. Hopefully, his schedule will change so he offers a class on one or two of my off days.

Sparring the school's owner was interesting. He's used to full contact stuff, boxed a bit in his youth (he's 47), and is still pretty fast. It was a moderately light spar, but I really, really had to be on my toes for all of the attacks coming in. Both rounds were solid flurries, almost totally trading shots, slipping, checking, attacking, etc. He certainly gave me all I could handle as far as incoming attacks. It was fun. He was totally unable to deal w/ the Thai style lowkicks though, and enjoyed two left uppercuts to the body. I love that punch!
 
Conditioning:

Bas Rutten's All Around Workout

28 minutes, no rest.

Impressions:
I chose this one today since it works both neck and core as well as general conditioning.
Its been a month or two since I did this one last. The leg stuff that killed me before was suprisingly easy this time (jumping squats, jumping lunges, etc). Seems my legs have increased their work capacity. Need to work a bit on upper body WC a bit. The pushups sucked toward the end, and my last couple rounds of shadowboxing lacked crisp striking.
 
I've been getting tied in knots at the Salvosa BJJ tournament all weekend so I'm a bit behind, but I am very, very excited that you're getting into working the body, especially with the sneaky odd-angled doomhammer that is the 3B.

I know you were trying to comfort the LW guy, but bodyshots have very little to do with weight classes, and much more with placement. Even when I'm demonstrating it or having it demonstrated on me at about 10%, a well-placed liver shot gives you a very uneasy tingle. It doesn't matter what you weigh, if you get clipped with one, it feels like you got kicked with steel toe boots in the balls, but your balls are in your chest... legs goto jelly... chest/stomach tighten... wind leaves you entirely... not fun... but don't kid yourself; you did what you did because of skilled placement, not big gunzorz
 
Placement had a lot to with it, I agree. I also throw it with a lot of upward/ forward leg drive instead of just as an arm punch.
I'll try to make you proud and repeat this during the fight.
 
i have a black belt in shotokan. Was he sparring you with a traditional side stance? I hate sparring guys who use that. You just need to destroy that front leg with low kicks and after they start reacting to them, play off it.
 
Didn't do terribly, I wasn't watching my weight or anything so I ended up having to fight in the 170 pounds division, walking around at 157, which was a lot of fun. In the no-gi division, it was a single elimination format as my division was hyoooge and I lost on points after playing around and going for a flying triangle, losing it, getting penalized for "pulling guard" after he passed his other arm through. I avoided a kimura attempt after being on the bottom of side mount, reversed it and ended up on top, so the final score was I think... 3-2, with the -1 for the "Guard pull" killing me.

The gi was a lot of fun, I had never really worn one outside of a couple rinky dink judo classes (not that Judo is rinky dink, Judo is badass, but these classes certainly weren't). I was down 6-0 and ended up escaping an armbar attempt and sinking in a bolt lock and tapping the guy out. Second match I won by default because the guy didn't show up, and the third match I got caught in an americana... after clinching off a cartwheel and going for another flying triangle, getting a weird posture-up-while-I'm-still-triangling escape that I was unfamiliar with because he could pull me into him with the gi and passing to side control

Had a lot of fun man. My problem is just that I like to "flow" too much, often unintelligently, just because I enjoy the scramble and transitioning from place to place. Points-fighting doesn't suit me in any combat sport, really. I just enjoy having fun with grappling, somersaulting, cartwheeling and flying-everything-ing. The first guy who beat me no-gi told me I was way stronger than I looked.. which I guess means I look weak haha
 
Team Dragonfire said:
i have a black belt in shotokan. Was he sparring you with a traditional side stance? I hate sparring guys who use that. You just need to destroy that front leg with low kicks and after they start reacting to them, play off it.
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No. He was much more squared away, hands up. American Kickboxing stance I guess?
 
Sounds like a good time. I've never fought, or even worn, a gi.
 
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