Instructional question please

[Euroscope]

Quick question, are there any instructional DVDs that stand out as the best when it comes to 1 - closing the distance 2 - fighting in the clinch? I once saw a clinch instructional by Joe Lewis but I imagine there are better ones out there, it was pretty old.

 

[P-Town BeatDown]

As far as closing the distance (something I have been trying to work on for awhile) you should actually check out as many Mike Tyson (boxing) and Mike Zambidis (kickboxing) fights as you can (at least supplementally to your instructionals). You'll have to watch them one time through just to get the "holy shit that was cool" out of the way before you can analyze them, but they are good tools and, best of all, plentiful and mostly free.

I'm still shitty at it, but watching these guys has helped a lot.

 

[vu]

Rodney King's street boxing is good

 

[bgrizzly98]

for fighting in the clinch you should watch pretty much all or Randy Couture's fights when he was the LHW champion, as for getting inside, like P-Town said any Mike Tyson fight. He was the master of it.

 

[ccl2087]

Quick question, are there any instructional DVDs that stand out as the best when it comes to 1 - closing the distance 2 - fighting in the clinch? I once saw a clinch instructional by Joe Lewis but I imagine there are better ones out there, it was pretty old.

i'd go with randy couture's instructionals if you're looking for techniques on closing the distance and fighting in the clinch. i'm pretty sure his first two dvd's from the learn to fight and win series cover those two topics

 

[ssssmashing]

Spacing, timing, distance, angles are really experiential and should be taught in the gym. There are concepts you can get from tapes and stuff but really nothing beats solid instruction from a live body.

 

[Chrisbl]

I just moved to vegas and I am trying to decide what mma gym to join I am fairly new to mma. I have had 3 fights. I trained on my own for those but I need to get someone who knows what they are doing to coach me. Does anyone have a recommendation or am I on the wrong thread

 

[Meatsack]

Rodney King's street boxing is good

His ground game sucks, though.

 

[Marvin Covar]

get randy couture's dvds.

 

[vu]

His ground game sucks, though.

The threadstarter didn't ask anything about ground-fighting...he asked about clinch fighting...

Rodney's King's tape series from Straight Blast has a VERY good instructional in it about "clinch boxing"...how to "crash the line" to enter the clinch and offensive/defensive techniques/strategies...

So your post is irrelevant...

 

[Chrisbl]

Anyone recommend any good gyms in Vegas for a beginner with just a few fights
I have lots of videos I want a real coach

 

[Euroscope]

Thanks a lot! I never thought about how good Tyson was about getting inside. Now that I think about it, he was awesome at it. I will order Randy Couture's DVDs now. Also Streetboxing (King). Basically I am not a stand up fighter, I am a grappler. Because of that I have been brainwashed to feel comfortable when I am in close with somebody and uncomfortable with a bunch of loose space between us. So striking distance freaks me out, I get nervious, but on my feet I feel more comfortable in a tight clinch.

 

[P-Town BeatDown]

The threadstarter didn't ask anything about ground-fighting...he asked about clinch fighting...

Rodney's King's tape series from Straight Blast has a VERY good instructional in it about "clinch boxing"...how to "crash the line" to enter the clinch and offensive/defensive techniques/strategies...

So your post is irrelevant...

LOL, I would be willing to bet he was talking about the "other" Rodney King (which actually makes the "ground game" joke kinda funny).

I have never seen any of King's instructionals or trained with him but we get quite a few people that have come through our gym and the overall consesus is that his training techniques are, for lack of a better word, "lacking." I get the overall sense that this is more of a personallity thing than a technique thing though. Either way, I have not personally heard many overall positive things from people who have trained with him out here. Not to mention I don't really agree with most of what I know about the "crazy monkey boxing" techniques, but thats just a personal (and relatively unimportant) opinion.

Have you met/trained with him? Does this sound accurate or have I just been talking to the wrong people?