PrisonFight.com

Not much of new fight programs can impress me this days. But it was before I learned about Prison Fight! It's a unique project with stunning fights inside prison walls. Yes, it's not only a name - it's really about fights in prison where inmates compete with professional fighters from outside prison. Sounds like a movie but it's real, and they continue to shock people with new photos and videos from their events. After ShowTime documentary - Freedom Fighters: 5 Round To Freedom - it's become famous worldwide. This program made not for entertainment but for me it's the best fight program ever. Most important is that Prison Fight helping inmates to do sports and giving them chance to earn money and in some cases even get prison sentence reduced. Prison Fight providing sports equipment to prisons of Thailand and as they tell in Facebook - to two more countries (they not name it yet, but I hope US is one of them). I glad to see that people around the world is supporting this movement! Few month ago they start own web store (prisonfightstore.com) and now anybody can buy some authentic products as was seen on Prison Fight event and support guys in development of such unique martial arts program. I hope after so many publications in major media they will get good promotion and earn enough to develop this program more widely. If it was new for you - just search Prison Fight Thailand in Google and you will be amazed! Highly recommended!!!

Steve Grogan’s Wing Chun Kung Fu lessons

Many people have heard of Wing Chun Kung Fu courtesy of the IP MAN movies, as well as its most famous practitioner: Bruce Lee. Have you ever had the desire to learn it, but you don’t have a school near you? Or maybe there is one, but you can’t afford it?

Well now both your problems are solved, thanks to Steve Grogan’s Wing Chun Kung Fu lessons, exclusively for sale on Fiverr.com!

 

Steve has studied Wing Chun since 1995, learning from both the Ip Ching and Leung Sheung lineages. Across 4 lessons, he teaches different Wing Chun forms and includes lots of juicy extras. Each lesson is laid out in a Basic, Standard, and Premium package.

SIL LUM TAO: The first form, which introduces the most common hand techniques. Premium package includes these FREE gifts:

•                   Centerline theory

•                   How wing chun is different from other styles

•                   CIRCUIT TRAINING: an ebook on one of Steve’s favorite exercise routines

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CHUM KIU: The second form, which introduces pivoting and kicking. Premium package includes these FREE gifts:

•                   Increase your power

•                   Why Wing Chun favors speed over strength

•                   NUTRITION GUIDE: Steve’s guide to affordable, healthy eating

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BIU JEE: The third form, which introduces techniques like elbows and finger jabs. Premium package includes these FREE gifts:

•                   Chi Sao explained

•                   The Straight Blast: what it is and when to use it

•                   THE SEARCH FOR THE WARRIOR’S PATH: Steve’s musings on the wide world of martial arts

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MOOK JONG: Also known as the Wooden Dummy, this lesson is self-explanatory. Premium package includes these FREE gifts:

•                   How to improve footwork

•                   Immoveable elbow theory

•                   THE BULLY FREE FITNESS GUIDE TO A BULLY-FREE LIFE: the main tome of Steve’s business (currently in the works), Bully Free Fitness, which looks into the phenomenon of bullying and explains how to live bully-free

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Check out each individual page for some amazing extra offers, like express delivery, one-on-one Skype time with Steve, and several other cool videos. Start your path to Wing Chun mastery today!

Cris Cyborg is arguably the #1 women’s fighter in the world

Cristiane Justino also known as Cyborg or Cris Cyborg is arguably the #1 women’s fighter in the world. Earlier this year in May at UFC 198, Cris made her UFC debut; Leslie Smith was her opponent that night, but make no mistake about it, this was “The Cyborg Show”. Cris dismantled Leslie in under a minute and a half, effectively letting the casual fight fans know what the enlightened ones already did, Cris Cyborg is for real.

For more amazing information and an awesome blogpost about Cris Cyborg by Will Gettling, an expert Mixed Martial Arts journalist and historian, CLICK  HERE



Reference / Source: http://mmacs.net/cris-cyborg-ronda-rousey-used-me-to-build-a-name-before-dropping-to-135/

Your ultimate guide to avoiding injuries in MMA

Avoiding injuries in MMA

Stay Safe

Source:  mmamania.com

Due to the intense physical aspect of the sport of MMA injuries are extremely common. Most of them aren’t as severe as most people would imagine, broken bones and dislocated shoulders are fairly uncommon. Most people suffer from pulled muscles, bruises, twinges and cramp commonly, and these are things that can be reduced if you seek to avoid them. Freak accidents are always unavoidable, but you should understand the difference between fighting hurt and fighting injured. The type of sport MMA is fighting hurt is unavoidable, but if you are fighting injured you will worsen the condition and have a longer recovery time.

Warm Up

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The best way to reduce and avoid injuries is by ensuring you carry out an effective warm up and stretches prior to training. By warming up the muscles they will work better and more effectively, allowing the blood to follow between the muscles and cells. This will create more energy to use. Furthermore by correctly stretching you will help your body prepare itself to the sudden stresses your muscles, ligaments and tendons are about to endure.

Protective Gear

You may also want to consider wearing more protective clothing and equipment. The danger of head injuries has become increasingly common within MMA and more focus than ever is being put on preventing them from occurring. Concussions can affect you over a long period of time as well as damage your mental health if they go unchecked, so if you get a concussion you should seek medical advice. During training it is highly recommended to wear protective head gear so if you do take a knock to the head you would have the added protection to reduce any risks. MMA training mats play avital role in all the training you undertake so it’s important that you choose a high quality mat which is built to last and of course protect you from injury.

Train well

The submission aspect of MMA is also something that can cause injuries. Since you are purposely being put under pressure on joints resulting in great pain, it can result in tears, breaks and pops. It is critical that if you are practicing submissions to only use an appropriate level of force during training. This is especially true if you are new to the sport and you are unfamiliar with the limits that the body can be put through. The advice is relevant to both parties as during training you are wanting to learn the techniques with a friendly opponent, not a competitor in a live fight. 

Stay Focused

Source : evolve-mma.com

Another recommended thing to do is if your body has been overworked, or you are recovering from an injury is to make sure you rest. Many people look to get back to training and fighting as soon as possible, but if your body is not ready or fully recovered you risk causing more damage resulting in more time out. Always seek to return when your body is ready and you have had enough time to recover, even if it means more time off now, it may stop another long term injury occurring in the future.

Safety First

The safety ofcompetitors is extremely important to the sport of MMA. Despite it being a contact physical sport, you should always seek to practice it in a safe manner.

History of Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate

Okinawan is a small village island near Japan blessed with cultural and natural diversity. The present day martial art ‘Karate’ traces back its root to the Buddhist Shaolin Temple of China.
The Buddhist monks from Shaolin Temple visited Okinawa and sowed the seed of martial arts and named it as ‘Tote’ as direct translation of ‘Chinese Hand’. The word Tote slowly reformed to ‘Te’ means hand and later to ‘Karate’ means open hand. The word Karate also represents the fact that it is practiced bare handed. Later ‘Kubodo’ means weapon techniques were also introduced. Since then the people of Okinawa learnt, practiced and tough Karate to rest of the world.
The original Okinawa Karate was developed in various villages mainly Naha, Shuri, and Tomari and diversed into three styles Naha-te, Shuri-Te, and Tomari-Te. Shuri-Te, also known as Shorin-ryu, divided in to Shobayashi-Ryu, Kobayashi-ryu, Matsubayashi-Ryu and Matsumara Orthodox and are collectively known by its family name Matsubayashi-Ryu.
The grand master Shoshin Nagamine, student of two most influential teachers in Okinawa Chotoku Kyan and Choki Motobu, unified and led Matsubayashi-Ryu in honour of this grand teachers Bushi Matsumara and Kosaku Matsumara. The word Matsubayashi means ‘pine forest’ and also have links back to the Buddhist Shaolin Temple surrounded by pine forest. Therefore this style is also known as ‘forest style’.
[Note: The two styles Shobayashi-Ryu and Kobayashi-Ryu emerged due to misspelling of the word Shobayashi.]
Master Shimbabukuno of Shobayashi-Ryu requested Chosin Cibana to correct his kata and discripencies proliferated in Shorin-Ryu in Okinawa. Due to his respect towards Sensi Cibana, Shimbabukuro removed his 10th dan black belt and wore white belt while learning kata from Sensi Cibana. This show the intense desire of teachers to preserve the purity and originality of Shorin-Ryu.
Shorin-Ryu is one of the famous styles of Okinawa which is still being practiced in its original form, while keeping in mind the quote of Sensi Cibana “Karate is teaching kata we have learnt from our forefathers without changing it at all.
Note to the readers: As this is a complied version of many stories available in the internet, so before using any information from this for educational purpose, you must consult the historian having knowledge in this field.

Athlon KickBoxing Challenge 2016

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Jiu-jitsu - Left Handed factor

Traditionally, jiu-jitsu is performed right-handed: "there are no left-handed swordsmen in Japan".  The jiu-jitsu syllabus is large enough that for self-defence purposes ambidextrosity is not required for many techniques: need the left-handed version of a technique?  Use something else instead.

On the other hand(!) judo techniques are often practiced on the non-preferred side -- hidari in Japanese -- thereby developing the body evenly on both sides.

For me, one of the best reasons to practice left-handed is to increase one's focus on what you're doing.  A reasonably well-grooved technique suddenly becomes challenging again.  I find myself changing from side-to-side, engaging in self-observation and self-teaching as I work to transfer the technique to the other side.  And the best thing ... the original migi side inevitably benefits too.

Other reasons to practice left-handed:
Injury: sometimes its unsafe to work on the regular side
Rehab: I have been working on one of my Chinese boxing weapon sets left-handed to try to stretch and strengthen a shoulder that appears to have sustained a (mild) injury
Teaching ploy: One of my students, who had previously been programmed to do a very different (Olympic judo) version of a throw, is learning our version in hidari first, as a stepping stone
In sum, I recommend occasionally training on the non-preferred side, as opposed to: never (traditional), 50-50, or mainly non-preferred (a competition-oriented strategy).