Joe Stevenson gets Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt from Phenom Robert Drysdale!
Robert Drysdale, the Las Vegas Jiu JiTsu professor, recently awarded a Black Belt to UFC fighter Joe Stevenson. Robert has been training with Joe extensively and has been helping him polish his Jiu-Jitsu skills in preperation for Joe’s fight against Ken florian for UFC 91. Robert and Joe have been training together extensively and Drysdale has servered as a coach for Joe for his last 3 UFC fights. Joe is an accomplished grappler and has has earned three of his last four victories via guillotine choke.
You can watch some videos of the award ceremony at Robert Drysdale’ s blog, las vegas brazilian jiu jiTsu
More information about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt Robert Drysdale’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy in Las Vegas, Nevada is available at his official website, www.robertdrysdale.net
Arrogant MMA Beefcakes Trash Talk Their Way to an Ass Kicking
Lots of fighter consider trash talk the only way to sell a fight to the crowd!
It’s the same story since the beginning of time… Well at least since the beginning of pro-fighting!
We all remember the irritating fight promos from Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson in the old days.
It’s the same thing in Mixed Martial Arts. Most of the fighters plug their upcoming fights calling death wishes and making a fool of their future adversaries to get headlines! It’s so obvious and overdone that no one even pay attention to them anymore!
Nevertheless, what I like best about trash talk promo is when fighters look like morons when the fight goes the other way. I just love it, thinking about the spoofs they made hours earlier while watching their new aspects or watching the ass whooping replay!
Simply because I love laughing out loud, I decided to make a top ten list of the most ridiculous trash talk promo succeeded by the most mortifying and painful outcome for the big talker!
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Arrogant MMA Beefcakes Trash Talk Their Way to an Ass Kicking
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The MMA Fights That Made 2008
The best Mixed Martial Arts fights that made 2008
2008 was a tremendous year in MMA. Lots of drama, great battles and great organisations matchmaking tremendous events through 2008. Nevertheless, The year was also marked by tragedy.
The most significant fighters who made 2008 were without a question Brock Lesnar and Kimbo Slice. Kimbo was employed and exploited by the now defunct EliteXc society as the only instrument they could find to compete against the Ultimate Fighting Championship…, and they almost did it!
Nevertheless, it was too large, too quick, too soon. The most renowned Youtube street fighter couldn’t face the music as soon as he was exposed to challenging opponent. EliteXc managed everything right from contracting up the really popular brawler, to developing his career against popular tuckered out fighters and signing up a CBS TV deal that the UFC still can’t get… It was without Ken Shamrock and his strange injury the day of the fight.
Brock Lesnar was the second big name of 2008. The ex pro-wrestler was used exactly like Kimbo Slice, and campaigned heavily too, (That explains why Liddell only fought once) but with much more talent. He succeeded where Kimbo failed and became UFC heavyweight champion after four fights only!!!
The MMA Fights That Made 2008
Unarmed Self Defense Tactics
The human foot is made up of 26 bones that are tied together by strong ligaments. Of these there are seven tarsal bones that form the area directly below the ankle joint and make up the instep of the foot. Five metatarsal bones that make up the ball of the foot then follow these seven and of course you have fourteen phalanges that form the toes. For those wondering how five toes divide into fourteen bones it is simple, there are only two bones in the big toe and three in the others.
By now you are probably also wondering what basic foot anatomy has to do with an assailant. Actually the knowledge of how the foot and hand (which we will cover shortly) is made up will enable you to better understand how to use them against an assailant.
The heel of the foot is the toughest bone of the foot and it is unlikely you will be able to do damage to it. The ankle bones can be hurt but are supported by the heel so more effort would have to be expended. The tiny bones that make up the instep and the toes on the other hand are very vulnerable and easy to break.
When a male or female assailant grabs you, there is an excellent chance that they have your hands, wrists or arms pinned and out of commission. By pinning you in this way, your assailant has affectively removed two of your most powerful weapons, both hands and elbows.
At the same time, it is important to remember they are not the only weapons you have in your arsenal. Your most powerful weapon is of course your head and by using it while staying calm, you are already in a stronger defensive position. Another strong set of weapons is your legs and feet.
It is possible to break the small bones of the feet regardless of which way your assailant has you facing in regards to him. The important part to remember is to use your own strong heel to make the strike, not the ball of your foot or instep.
To get the desired effect you will need to bring your knee up as far as possible and then slamming it downward with your ankle flexed upward so your heel hits first. For any of the following instructions to work, you must be within striking range of your assailant. YOUR striking range, not his.
If your back is to your assailant, you can bring your knee up without impediment and think for a moment of how a mule kicks with his rear legs. He will bring his leg up with the hoof close to his underside and then kick straight back. In some styles of martial arts, bringing your knee and foot up and also kicking straight back just happens to be termed a “mule kick.”
Ideally, as you slam your heel backwards, you will hit the assailant’s knee, a very unstable, vulnerable joint. Regardless if you hit the knee or the shin, the rest of the technique requires you to allow your heel to slide down the assailant’s leg and onto the bones of the instep or toes.
For those that wear high heels or boots, you will have an added advantage although the technique will still work well in tennis shoes or bare feet. You just have to remember to put as much force behind the strike as possible.
If you have been lucky enough to hit the knee or break the bones of the foot, don’t stop there. Use your head as a battering ram against your assailant’s nose and mouth, if your arms are pinned but your hands are free, attempt to step backwards as close to your assailant as possible, use your strongest hand to reach back and grab a handful of testicles or pinch as hard as you can on the inside of the thigh as close to the groin as possible. To get the idea of how light a pinch can cause pain, reach down and pinch the inside of your own thigh.
As to the human hand, there are twenty-seven bones that comprise the fingers, palm and wrist. The wrist itself has eight strong cube shaped bones that attaches the actual hand to the end of the arm. The palm is made up of five long metacarpal bones. From the palm, fourteen phalangeal bones become the fingers with the same breakdown in individual digits as listed in the toes. Three bones are in each finger, two in the thumb.
The hand itself with all the fingers grasping your wrist, shoulder or arm is strong but one finger by itself is weak. For the sake of simplicity, lets assume your assailant has a big meaty hand wrapped around your left wrist or lower arm. Regardless as to who this person is, he or she has no right to touch you without your permission and if permission has been given, the point of this article would be mute.
Keeping calm, look down at the offending hand, reach over with you right hand and instead of grabbing their wrist or entire hand, simply grab one little finger. The weakest fingers in an average person’s hand are the pinkie and the ring finger. Use this knowledge to your advantage. Wrap your hand as best as possible around the pinkie and with a sharp motion down and back, make the back of the finger smash into the back of your assailant’s hand. You must do this quickly, forcefully and be committed to the act.
By hesitating, the assailant is given time to be aware of what you are doing and take appropriate actions and if you feel squeamish about breaking someone’s bones, you won’t use the force needed to do the most good.
If your assailant is holding your hand in such a way you can’t get a good grip on the pinkie or ring finger, don’t give up. The index finger or the thumb will be as affective; they just require a greater deal of force.
To give yourself an added advantage, precede the breaking of the finger with the foot strike and stomping of toes to get your assailant distracted first. If you are facing him, you can see exactly where the knee and foot for the best quality strike.
These suggestions are just a couple of the possible self-defense escape methods that can be used. As with any technique, no single one works 100% of the time in all given situations and against any or all opponents. They can be affective though by themselves or as follow-ups to other types of defensive moves.
As with any and all techniques, they do little good if they have not been practiced and require a period of thought on you part to remember. With any attack, you will have a very small window of opportunity to get your strikes in and get away. After all, that is your main objective, to get away. Once you are free, run, don’t walk to the closest safe place you can find and call for law enforcement authorities to handle the matter from there.
From Butch to Cute Female Mixed Martial Arts Fighters
By: Zdot
The Beauty and the beast - Look out top 10 comparing listings between Butch and gorgeous MMA Female fighters. From magnificent babes to living nightmares!
Numerous sites - MMA specialists and gossip sites - are using the stunning Gina Carano to babble about Mixed Martial Arts. It’s true that the fighter is lovely, and it’s quite astonishing to see such a babe competing in such a brutal sport and being so good at it.
It looks that they are employing Gina and her juicy astonishing shapes to promote MMA heavily since the Kimbo Slice failure. Nowadays, we hear about the UFC and Gina Carano, nothing else. Whether it’s about fighting, fake lesbian picks or contract problems with defunct EliteXc, she’s everywhere.
We want to show the real face of female MMA fighters. Even if Gina Carano and some other are really splendid, the big majority of female MMA fighters are butches to say the least. Not only in their appearance but in their attitude as well. Read More…
Martial Arts and Daily Living
Focus
Many students ask - what do I do with my eyes? Where do I look? Regardless what the practice is - standing, walking, moving - eyes are looking straight but your mind does not register information taken by your eyesight. The gaze is turned internally, observing your muscles, your legs, your hands, scanning every single part of your body with your mind. I used to go to crowded places to train for competitions - the more distraction the better it was. Well, no doubt, I learned how to focus and keep final destination constantly in my mind - perfection of the body posture, allowing the energy to flow freely like cleaning blocked pipes or dirty chimneys. Meridians are fresh, blood circulates to all parts of the body, there are no blockages and as qi starts in your dan tian it swirls through the whole body and is being released into the ground. To reach perfection you first hear about what it is that you are looking for and then step by step focus on each requirement until you get it and lift yourself up to new horizons. I take focus as another insight for daily living.
Flexibility
A lot of people are put off by the idea of martial arts for a simple reason that you need to wake up early and practice outside during winter. In my opinion these are such minor components of the whole practice and if you do get into practicing at dawn and during the winter than you are already into it that much that it does not matter. Your teacher may be flexible enough to assist you in learning whenever it is convenient for you, some teachers take it easy during winter and if you have a spacious apartment you can practice at home. So, first of all martial arts teaches about flexibility. By being flexible I mean physically and mentally because it is all connected and one directs the other.
Calm
Another simple implementation of martial arts in daily living is that you learn how to keep being focused and relaxed while doing strenuous exercise. The practice gets your body to twist in new directions, to use muscles you haven’t used before, to learn what ‘natural posture’ means in terms of martial arts. After a while your body becomes soft outside (for the observer) and hard inside (you experience the flow of qi in your body). Simply, if you manage to keep your body relaxed during strenuous exercise then in daily living you can maintain being relaxed in stressful situations. Needless to mention, daily practice enables you to remain calm and focused despite the circumstances and the environment.
Patience
Recently I have been translating for Liu Sifu - he has new students who do not speak much of Chinese and I am amazed (again and again) how much patience he has. Each student is treated in a new way, with new perspective, so much appropriate for their personality. I stopped asking how he does it, each time it is just as if he knows how nature works. Of course, practicing ba gua was helpful for increasing this insight (amongst other things). As I translate I keep rushing ahead, giving my perspective on what is being said, talking about my experience while he sits calmly and waits for me to finish. Never a single comment, never a single request. I look at new students practicing zhang zhuan (standing stance) and keep thinking: they must be bored, there is so much more to it! And yet, I realize - their mind and body are so occupied maintaining the proper standing stance as it looks simple to an observer while the person practicing has busy time thinking of all things that need to be done - usual case with internal martial arts. I learned patience by living in China and I know that patience is part of every journey - accept the fact that beginning is slow and that some things you will do well, some will be hard.
Determination and Discipline
Over the course of 7 years of practice I have learned one thing about internal martial arts - there are times when I enjoy it, when the flow of it is so natural and free, by body wakens and mind empties itself accepting nature as the only guide. As everything else in life, there are also times when I am lazy, I dread waking up in the morning, my body rebels, practice seems boring and I question if there is anything coming out of it. Liu calls these times “guan” (”pass”). Each guan is blocking the way towards new learning, realization and expansion. So there is physical guan, lazy guan, guan of doubt etc. It is our choice to stop and retreat from practice or to continue and see what awaits us behind the obstacle. Usually it is expansion of physical and mental experience: body becomes stronger, mind reaches new horizons. However, it does not mean that if you pass one guan you have finished with that lesson. For me, lazy guan keeps coming back but the time needed to pass it is getting shorter and shorter. Lessons are fulfilling enough for me to realize that determination and discipline is what takes me further towards abundant and balanced living.
With flexibility, calm, focus, patience, determination and discipline I look forward to every new challenge.
The Most Pain Grinding Styles of Mixed Martial Arts
From MMABrawl comes a great article on the Most Pain Grinding Styles of Mixed Martial Arts.
Here are the MMA styles that are guaranteed to result in the most blood and face mashing carnage..
At the beginning, UFC was created to find the best martial art of all by opposing styles against each other.
To find out what are the most Pain Grinding Styles in Mixed Martial Arts, we are going to list, in an increasing order, the most crushing fighting styles involved in MMA and outline the type of damage each method can inflict… Yummy!!!
The Seek for Maximum Pain
Among years, fighters from all around the world were going to the UFC octagon to prove that their form of fighting was the most lethal one. We could see various styles facing each other in a gruesome fashion.
Some of them were pure farce, some were unadapted to the Octagon or represented by weak athletes, but after many attempts, fighters could find the answer to: What is the better way to demolish someone?
How We Rated Each Style of Fighting
We decided to order each style of fighting by the amount of pain and horrific injuries it can inflict to an opponent. It doesn’t mean those styles, specific strikes or submission holds are the best, but because they are particularly violent and impressive. We ordered them in increasing order, from the less effective to the best one.
Read the list here.
Facts about Karate
Contrary to popular opinion, the martial art Karate was not invented in China. Rather, it has its origins in the island of Okinawa in Japan. The word “Karate” means the “empty hand” or the “Chinese hand”, and it has been given this name because it involves a rapid use of hands and legs in an extreme close combat.
It was sometime in the sixteenth century that Chinese Kung Fu fighters experimented around with their styles and formulated the “te” technique (”Te” means hand). The art grew in China and evolved from a very rough and simple fighting style into a hard, close-combat style.
Around the late nineteenth century, Gichin Funakoshi, a famous martial arts practitioner from Japan, blended new moves into the “Te” style and displayed his art to the Japanese martial arts masters in early twentieth century. This was the beginning of Karate, as we know it.
Karate kicked off with the original Okinawa style; later on, the Japanese patented their own styles, which are now appropriately called Japanese styles of Karate. With time, many karate schools all cross the world began naming their Karate after their school’s or master’s name, giving birth to many sub-styles.
The original style - known as the Okinawa style - is a very hard and external style. It employs circular means of defense while its attack is linear in nature. The physical condition is extremely rigorous, as compared to the Japanese style of Karate. The Japanese style of Karate is more stylistic and its movements are linear in both defense and offense.
Some of the important Karate sub-styles are: (i) Wado-Ryu style, which combines JiuJitsu movements with Okinawa karate techniques, and (ii) Uechi-Ryu style, which blends Okinawa Karate with Chinese martial arts tactics. The Uechi-Ryu style appears more Chinese than Japanese though it is a blend of both the cultures.
As you know, Karate is a fast-paced martial art that involves electric movements of the hands and legs. So, you need to ensure that you are attired in a comfortable Karate uniform.
As Karate involves close combat and can be lethal, you will also need to protect your head and groin by strapping on a head guard and groin protector, respectively. Arm, chest and leg guards are available too, and so are karate mitts and shin protectors. And, of course, mouth guards can be considered too, just in case.
To train for Karate, you will need jump ropes, breakable boards, a Karate training board and a Karate training system. To perform Karate exercises, you will need leg and body stretchers, mats, water training bags, punching bags and pull-up and push-up bars.
And, finally, before you go out there to practice Karate, do not forget to plug in a first aid kit in your bag.
Karate not only keeps your body fit, it also strengthens your mind and enhances your concentration. Only thing, you must learn to respect it and practice it seriously as an art.
Judo, the art of Self Perfection
by: Anne-Marie RONSEN
Have you ever wondered what exactly is up with Judo? When you talk about martial arts, what comes first in your mind? This informative article can give you an insight into everything you’ve ever wanted to know about judo and Martial Arts.
It’s really a good idea to probe a little deeper into the subject of judo. Today Judo is enjoyed by more than 800,000 men, women and children. There are many reasons for learning Judo. Judo provides exercise, relaxation, sport, an interesting challenge, balance, coordination, self-protection and self-confidence.
Modern Judo is a martial art based on the traditional Jujutsu fighting and self-defense techniques of Japan. It was developed by Professor Jigoro Kano from a martial art called Jujutsu (also spelled Jujitsu). He is often called the “Father of Japanese Sports.” Professor Jigoro Kano eliminated some of the traditional jujutsu techniques and changed training methods so that most of the moves could be done with full force to create a decisive victory without injury.
The Japanese word “Ju” in Judo means “mild” and “natural” and “do” means “art” and “way.” Judo therefore denotes “way to peace” or may be translated as “the Way of gentleness,” with the implication of first giving way to ultimately gain victory.
Judo techniques are divided into three primary catagories - Nage-waza (throwing techniques), Katame-waza (grappling techniques), and Atemi-waza.
Judo training has many forms for different interests. Some students study the traditional art and forms (kata) of Judo. Other students train for competition by sparring and entering the many tournaments that are available. Other students train for self-defense, and yet other students practice Judo for fun and recreation. Black belts are expected to learn all aspects of Judo.
The most important principle of Judo as practiced was to disturb the center of gravity of the opponent, and then pull or push in a way that the opponent cannot stand, exerting skill rather than strength, so that he might lose his equilibrium and fall heavily to the ground. A series of rules was taught respecting the different motions of feet, legs, arms, hands, the thigh and back, in order to accomplish this object.
Judo is an art, after all, a practical approach to life. Judo develops complete body control, fine balance, and fast reflexive action. Develops a keen desire to coordinate mind and body. Also, provides the means for learning self-confidence, concentration, and leadership skills, as well as physical coordination, power, and flexibility.
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Enjoy, and in the words of Dr. Jigoro Kano:
“Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.”
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