Vinicio Antony - Karate coach of MMA fighters

[Hotora86]

"Vinicio Antony Sensei is a senior 5th Dan Shotokan Karateka, a BJJ blackbelt and highly skilled in many other arts such as Muay Thai and Savate. His approach is to return Shotokan Karate to the effective self defence fighting art that it was intended for but also exploring Karate’s effectiveness in MMA."
SOURCE: http://www.sski-london.co.uk/archives/63797

His facebook (note Machida in the top banner): https://www.facebook.com/shotokan.karatejutsu1
His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/vinicioantony1
His Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/vinicioantony/?hl=en

Why is nobody talking about this guy? I've heard that he is very respected in Brazil, by MMA fighters as well, and gets invited to help them train.

I have only found ONE thread about him, where he talks about Conor's fighting style:
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/vinicio-antony-belfort-coach-breakdown-conor.3117241/

And ONE Sherdog.com news article where he talks about training Belfort for Henderson:
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Ka...s-Vitor-Belforts-Blackzilians-Departure-94639
(looks like it paid off since Belfort KOd Dan in the 1st and got the Performance of the Night bonus!)

It's interesting that he has coached BOTH Belfort and Machida but he's in Machida's camp right now. Does this impact their respective strategies? Does this give Machida the advantage? What do you think?

 

[JustOnce]

"Vinicio Antony Sensei is a senior 5th Dan Shotokan Karateka, a BBJ blackbelt and highly skilled in many other arts such as Muay Thai and Savate. His approach is to return Shotokan Karate to the effective self defence fighting art that it was intended for but also exploring Karate’s effectiveness in MMA."
SOURCE: http://www.sski-london.co.uk/archives/63797

His facebook (note Machida in the top banner): https://www.facebook.com/shotokan.karatejutsu1
His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/vinicioantony1
His Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/vinicioantony/?hl=en

Why is nobody talking about this guy? I've heard that he is very respected in Brazil, by MMA fighters as well, and gets invited to help them train.

I have only found ONE thread about him, where he talks about Conor's fighting style:
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/vinicio-antony-belfort-coach-breakdown-conor.3117241/

And ONE Sherdog.com news article where he talks about training Belfort for Henderson:
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Ka...s-Vitor-Belforts-Blackzilians-Departure-94639
(looks like it paid off since Belfort KOd Dan in the 1st and got the Performance of the Night bonus!)

It's interesting that he has coached BOTH Belfort and Machida but he's in Machida's camp right now. Does this impact their respective strategies? Does this give Machida the advantage? What do you think?

I think it would have been a huge advantage if Vitor had him, but not so much the other way around.

Vitor isn't going to outmove or outkick machida anyway, BUT, if you actually look at Machida fights, he doesn't defend kicks very well for whatever reasons.

 

[Liquidskies]

 

[RyuHayabusa]

We have plenty of sensei here on sherdog bradda

 

[lsa]

You might wanna change BBJ to BJJ

 

[GlasgowKiss81]

Weird that this thread came up, as I was reading/researching about him yesterday. Seems like a bit of a character in the embedded episodes from this week.

 

[Roljo]

I don't think this will matter. At this point in their careers it's basically about who aged better. Having seen their last fights i would tend to go with Machida unless Vitor is able to land something big in the first few minutes.

 

[Hotora86]

You might wanna change BBJ to BJJ

LOL I copied that straight from the website, it's not my fault!