Footwork is super important for boxing, but it becomes even more important when you apply it in MMA. That is, of course if you’d like to box in an MMA context. Mixed martial arts introduces new rules accompanied by new attacks that boxers don’t typically have to deal with.
The two secondary goals of the MMA boxer are to: stay on your feet, and out of the clinch. Those ancillary goals allow us to accomplish our ma… (Read more)
Today I’m going to respond to a reader’s email as part of my post. I enjoy interacting with you guys, so if there’s any of you reading this that have questions please send them on over to jstamey@atlanticmma.com.
Hi Jonathan!
My name is Abner, I’m from Brazil.
I downloaded your e-book “Boxing Bible” for MMA, very good book! Congrats!_
_I’ve been training Muay Thai for 4 years, and I’m very goo… (Read more)
Over the past few days I’ve been exchanging emails with Serra Jiu-Jitsu’s Billy Hofacker, Billy Ho (cool nickname right?) is a Matt/Nick Serra brown belt and runs a site called TrainingforMMAFitness.com. Not to mention he manages a Serra Jiu-Jitsu location and instructs there.
In those emails we’ve been dis… (Read more)
I just finished writing my new eBook ”The Boxing Bible for MMA: Everything You Need to Know to Box Successfully Inside the Cage” and I’d like to invite you guys to take a look!
Here are the chapters:
A facebook friend posed this question to me. Below is his full question and my response. Forgive my grammer and punctuation I just wanted to post it as is. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts in the comments or twitter or facebook or wherever you’re reading this…I’d like to know your opinions!
_Hello Jonathan, this is Anwar, I read your info that you post here on Facebook quite often and was wondering if you woul… (Read more)
Whether it be after a takedown or by guard pass, sometimes you’ll end up in what’s called the half guard.
It’s when you’re only able to capture one of your opponent’s legs. Control over one leg is better than control over, well, NO legs.
There are a couple different ways to maintain the position and prevent him from passing both legs, but I think below is the most common.
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Without a doubt the hook is the most difficult punch to learn how to throw. Reason being that a hook thrown correctly involves a bunch a moving parts. The more parts you have to move in a coordinated fashion the easier it is to screw it up.
Maybe it’s difficult to learn, but taking the time to add it to your repertoire will make your fights so much easier.
The hook is a punch m… (Read more)
A while back I had an opportunity to get Stephan Kesting of BeginningBJJ.com on the phone so he could highlight the 6 main grappling positions for us MMA beginners.
I think before you even step foot on a mat you should at least have a decent idea of what you’re trying to accomplish.
There’s no better place to begin than with a basic understanding of … (Read more)
Open guard is kind of difficult to define in the sense that it’s dynamic (constantly changing or moving) and not static like much of the closed guard position.
So if the closed guard is when your feet are hooked together around your opponent’s … (Read more)
I’ll be taking you guys through all the basic brazilian jiu jitsu positions, but we’ll start with closed guard. Defining what it is, what it looks like, and following that with your strategies from the top and bottom.
In the closed guard you have your legs wrapped around your opponent on the ground with your feet hooked together behind him.
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