Mike Tyson sparring clip

Imagine being Mike Tyson's sparring partner! He makes all his partners in this clip look really slow.

Mike Tyson daily training routine

I was and still is a big fan of Mike Tyson the boxer so here is yet another training clip of Mike in action. His speed and combinations on the heavy bag is just amazing. I like the simple exercise for the head movement. Will we ever see another heavyweight boxer like Mike?

Judo: Isao Okano vs Russian

Isao Okano is a famous Japanese Judo champion. Here is a clip of him going up against Boris Mishenko. This took place during the time the Russians just entered the judo scene.

The Russians in Judo were famous for their unorthodox style, due to their background of Sambo, a Russian jacket wrestling style.

Arm and leg submissions are a specialty of Sambo. Here the great Isao Okano is caught off guard by his Russian opponent via armbar.

Sambo training in Japan

This is Sambo training in Japan by a coach named Hagihara. I don't much about the coach but the training looks really solid and top notch. Alot of the warm up drills are the same if not very similar to wrestling. Though these drills are mainly found in wrestling or grappling schools I think they will be beneficial to any styles . Body coordination, flexibility, breakfalling, these are some of the things off the top of my head that can be developed through this.

You guys can see we do some of these drills in sanshou training but they have some really acrobatic ones here that we don't do. Given the time I would love to try and learn them. The exercises look really fun and I'd like to master them before I'm too old!

Combat Sambo training at Red Devil Club (Fedor's gym)

This is Fedor's gym, the Red Devil Club in Russia. It's a Sambo and MMA gym, hence you see the guys in sambo jackets, guys with mma shorts and gloves, padwork training, etc. I really like Sambo as its Combat Sambo variant seen here intergrates strikes with grappling, making it a good all round style especially to transition into MMA. No wonder Fedor is the world top heavyweight MMA fighter at the moment.

Floyd Mayweather`s defensive skills

Another Floyd Mayweather clip, this time highlighting his defensive skills. Good reference for the guys in the class who should be working on their defensive skills. Notice how he always tuck his chin next to his shoulder even when he has one hand down. Often we are dazzled by a fighter's offensive skills like Mayweather and forget that a big reason why they're able to win often is they hardly get hit.

Obviously some thins will need to be modified when kicks and knees are allowed but this is still a good reference to refer back to from time to time to get some ideas and inspiration.

Floyd Mayweather Training

I'm always interested in the training of fighters, no matter what combat sports or martial arts they're from. There's always something to be learnt or admired when watching dedicated or accomplished fighters train. Hope you all know who Floyd Mayweather is. If not he is the current World WBC welterweight champion and has won six different world championship belts in five different weights!

I don't really like his brashness and showboating but I do like his boxing skills. Two things to note from this clip. He comes from a boxing family. His father was a pro boxer as well and he's trained by his uncle. That's his uncle iirc doing the padwork with him. They have a very unique tap tap style of padwork style I haven't seen anywhere else. Doesn't seem to emphasise much power in the padwork but I'm guessing it develops and focuses strongly on speed, accuracy and reflexes.

The second thing is his awesome skipping rope routine. He makes it look so easy doing all the complicated tricks and skills. There's a couple of youtube vids solely on this which I'll post later on.

Daido Juku

This is Daido Juku Karate. It is an offshoot of Kyokushin which helps explains the footage of the full contact karate at the beginning of the clip. Daido Juku competition is quite extreme compared to even Kyokushin. They allow punches to the head, kicks, clinching with knees, elbows and even headbutts! They also allow throwing, takedowns and submissions making it basically like MMA. They do wear full on headgear with face visor but as you can see from the clip people still get knocked out wearing the headgears. There is a few secs in there of someone doing multiple headbutts to the opponent. Very very extreme. Did anyone notice the guy at the start who I assume if the founder running on concrete barefoot? Hardcore!

Master Sken - Super Kicks DVD Trailer

Master Sken's - Thai Boxing Fighter - Phil Nurse

Just found this fight clip of Phil Nurse. Might be of some interest to the guys in the club as Phil Nurse is a student under the famous Master Sken in UK. Master Sken is one of my coach's primary muay thai teachers, the other being Master Toddy. Both Master Sken and Master Toddy are considered the pioneers of Muay Thai in the UK. Very wild but amazing fighter. Enjoy!

Kyokushin karate speed kick tutorial

This is Kenji Midori, a famous Karate teacher who was an Open Kyokushin champion. He is well known for his kicks as you can see in this round kick demo and tutorial. The kyokushin kick is slightly different than in Muay Thai in that Kyokushin tend to chamber their kicks. Chambering refers to the knee being raised before being released to kick. This tend to create a more hipping kick than the the Muay Thai roundhouse. I prefer the Muay Thai style kick myself but many fighters who come from Kyokushin background has proven the effectiveness of their style of kicking. The baseball bat breaking demo was awesome.

The Brazillian Kick tutorial

Kar Lok keeps saying he loves the downward roundhouse kick as seen in some K-1 fighters. So this clip is especially for him. The kick is usually called Maha mawashi geri in Japanese. Maha is Japanese for Mach and mawashi geri is roundhouse kick. I guess they call it the mach kick because the kick's speed is like the speed of breaking the speed of sound. The popular name for the kick is the "Brazillian Kick". This is because the Brazilians were the ones who popularised using it in competitions. The K-1 fighters who are known for using this kick are usually Brazillian and have a background in Kyokushin Karate.

Dog Style kungfu!

This is a clip of Fujian Dishu Quan (Fujian Ground Boxing), also known as Fujian Gou Quan (Dog style). The second name is not very glamourous so people usually call it Ground Boxing. It's full of ground fighting techniques that focuses on kicks, rolling and sweeps. It's a very demanding style and I liken it to learning breakdancing. It'll build up the body tremendously. I would have love dto learn this kungfu style when I was young. I think the physical attributes one would build up training this will carry over to almost any other nartial arts styles in the future. I also think the ground fighting techniques themselves are worth to learn. It's totally different than what is thought of groundfighting these days with the dominance of BJJ but I think it can be useful. In fact I've seen afew Japanese shooto fighting rolling around, doing leg sweeps and kicks from the ground that could have come out from Fujian Ground Boxing. At the very least you can start doing a form on the dance floor and look cool :D