Fedor seminar in Korea

Seminar held by Fedor and I think his brother showing Combat Sambo. I found it curious that some of the Judo blackbelts in the video seems unfamiliar with the arm shrug technique Fedor showed against the collar grip. I guess this is not used much in Judo?

Su Jeong Lim; Korean Women Bantamweight Champion at Fairtex

Interview of Su Jeong Lim training at Fairtex. Her techniques are quite good! What a hottie.

Sambo: How to Do a Georgia Combo in Sambo Martial Arts

I thought this is a really nice knee to throw combo. This will be useful in sanda. Hip throws are illegal in Muay Thai so its applications there is limited.

THE SMASH by Razor Ruddock

The Smash is the nickname given to a special punch developed by Donovan "Razor" Ruddock, Canadian Heavyweight boxing champion. Ruddock fought Tyson twice. He was controvesially stopped in Round 7 and took a decision lost in the second match. In the first match, the two fighters praised each other after the fight with Tyson saying "He Punches like a fucking kick from a mule", stating it was the hardest he'd ever been hit, something he still says to this day. The second match resulted in Ruddock received a broken jaw midway through the fight and tyson suffered a perforated eardrum. Tyson praised Ruddock as a great heavyweight saying 'Man this guy is tough, he'll be champion of the world one day if he stays dedicated and doesn't slip up'.

The smash is a punch that is a a mixture of both a hook and an uppercut. It starts out low and from the outside and tries to penetrate through and under the guard. The angle and motion must have been really hard for opponents to pick up. The extreme motion and whole body motion made it a devastatingly heavy punch that even Tyson praised.

Training Team Mr. Perfect - Three man drills

My coach calls this three man drills. This is when you're doing padwork with two students at the same time. Useful when you have a limited time and need to give two students some quality time of padwork. Obviously not as good as one on one padwork but it still has its place. I only ever see this in Holland and here in Aus so far with my coach. I never ever see this in Thailand which is not as surprise as they are full time gyms over there having the whole day to train. Unlike here and probably the same as in Holland where classes usually take place in the evening and nights, ie. limited number of coaches and time available. That;s Ernesto Hoost by the way holding the pads. What I wouldn't give to train once there...or anywhere in Holland.

Sanshou training in China

Interesting clip of sanshou training in China. The facilities shown is very well equipped and spacious! It also looks like from the brief focus mitt punch work that they are training to improve their punching skills. The Chinese sanshou fighters are normally known for having bad boxing skills. I wouldn't mind training in one if I'm in China.

Russian Uranage throw

I got away with doing a very similar throw to this in one of my Muay Thai matches. I think as long as long as you don't do a full back arch and put more emphasis on the horizontal twist, the ref wil let you get away with it.

It's a good uncommon technique to use in the Muay Thai clinch, especially when you end up at your opponent's side and you have underhooks.

Manny Pacquiao Training Highlight

Great HL training clip of Pacquaio training for his match against De La Hoya. Always inspriring to see all the hard work the pros put in for the short time they're in the ring.

Manny Pacquiao training for Morales rematch

Seeing the vid clip of Spong doing boxing training with Mayweather Snr made me look up other boxing training vids again. This is Manny Pacquiao in training. Pacquiao hails from the Phillipines and is the current WBC lightweight champion. He is trained under Freddie Roach who at one time trained Mike Tyson.

Just look at Pacquiao's handspeed!! He is known for his blistering handspeed but still....wow. At times I am so focused on Muay Thai these days that I forget how good a boxer's punching is. Seeing this I think it might be a good idea to supplement my off training days by going to the local boxing gym.

Dieselnoi on Thaipads

Another clip of Dieselnoi in training. What a knee smashing machine! That padholder is one tough guy to be doing this on a daily basis with him!

Dieselnoi Chamuekpet training

Training clip of the famous Diesel Noi. It's hard to get any clips of this famous fighter so this is a gem! Dieselnoi doing clinch work and padwork. I would really hate to be on the receiving end of his knees.

Work out in the park

Bunch of guys working out in a playground park. Great workout! Alot of variations on the pull ups and a variety of gymnastic type exercises. I think this type of training would be a good substitute to the standard strength & conditioning training.

It's free, out in the outdoors and best of all it looks like they're having a lot of fun doing it!

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?

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 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.

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.

Mike Tyson Training Highlight Reel 2

Another Mike Tyson training HL clip. I love his head movements and punching combinations. What a waste of talent.