Nowadays, the sport of mixed martial arts truly lives up to its name. You will have a hard time finding a professional MMA fighter who is not well versed with all the different aspects of fighting. This article will explore the three main martial arts that dominate mixed martial arts competition. If you plan to compete someday, you should be training all three consistently.
BJJ might be the most addictive martial art in the world. It is a grappling art that focuses on escaping, reversing, and attacking an opponent from any of the major positions you can end up in while on the ground.
It incorporates submissions like armbars, chokes, and pressure locks to force an opponent to submit. The trademark position in BJJ is the guard. To an unseasoned eye, the person on the bottom during a fight is losing the contest, but BJJ teaches you a plethora of submissions, sweeps, holds, and sweeps from there.
A seasoned BJJ practitioner is more than capable of ending a fight while on his back. It means a BJJ practitioner is always in a fight even if things are not going his way. Sonnen dominated Silva for four and a half rounds, and he only needed to survive the duration of the fifth round to become the new champion. However, Silva kept looking for submissions, and he managed to lock up a submission with a little over two minutes left in the fight.
The submission instantly negated everything Sonnen had done up until that point. Ironically, Sonnen had harshly criticized the effectiveness of BJJ leading up to the fight. Wrestling allows you to control where the fight takes place. Wrestlers have had their fair share of success in mixed martial arts, and they continue to do so.
Wrestling teaches you how to take others down and how to avoid being taken down. His boxing skills are easily the best in MMA, as seen by his masterful display of head movement and striking against Dominick Cruz to win the championship. I have also included kickboxing here, because it is pretty much the same thing as Muay Thai, except Muay Thai is more commonly trained and has a wider range of techniques.
Muay Thai is a form of kickboxing originating in Thailand. The style uses the basics of every kickboxing style, punches and a variety of kicks.
There are several techniques that are unique to Muay Thai however, that make it so widely used. One is the leg kick. It is a technique not featured in most other kickboxing styles, and so it is almost completely unique to Muay Thai.
Leg kicks are extremely effective in MMA, as an accumulation of them has been known to render fighters unable to compete.
Thus not only are leg kicks good to know, but knowing how to check them is also crucial. Secondly, Muay Thai uses a very strong roundhouse kick. Fighters are taught to step into their kicks, and twist their hips as they kick, putting a lot of momentum behind it. The momentum makes the kick a very dangerous one, even when blocked with the arms. Another big advantage Muay Thai has over other kickboxing styles is that it also teaches elbow and knee strikes.
You can check out a post I made talking more about what exactly this clinch is here: What is the Muay Thai Plum? There are many different styles of martial arts, and MMA fighters are not limited to the styles listed previously. Below, I will describe some styles that do not have too many practitioners in MMA, but that are still effective when used correctly. Karate is a form of kickboxing from Japan, that focuses on quick kicks to create space and hard snappy punches.
It is not widely used due to its lack of effectiveness when compared to a more rigid kickboxing system like Muay Thai. Notable techniques in Karate are the sidekick, the snapping front kick, and the spinning back kick. Sambo is a more complete martial art, resembling MMA in a way, as competitors are allowed to wrestle and strike. For this reason, Sambo practitioners are usually considered wrestlers, as they are very similar styles, simply practiced in different parts of the world under different names.
The emphasis of Sambo is on the ground game, particularly in takedowns and submissions, as it is a descendant style of Judo. Taekwondo is another kickboxing art, and is very similar to Karate. It is a Korean martial art that actually descended from the Japanese Karate style. Taekwondo places a lot more emphasis on kicks than Karate does, as Taekwondo practitioners rarely punch to the head. Yet on the rarest of occasions, certain combatants transcend local, regional or even national boundaries—their capacity to perform at the highest level makes them world class.
Olympic Games: the definitive proving ground for almost any form of sport—boxers, judo players and Greco-Roman wrestlers compete against the the very best for victory on a worldwide stage. But a world-class MMA fighter needs to hone the skills of more than a single discipline. Such a fighter must have proficiency in everything from stand-up striking to submission grappling. Unsatisfied with mere wrestling, Henderson gradually developed knockout power en route to concurrently holding championships in two separate Pride weight divisions.
Henderson is but one example of an MMA fighter who may have begun his athletic career with a single discipline but ultimately wound up with a more formidable mixed martial arts game. Former UFC kingpin Anderson Silva broke virtually every UFC record for myriad reasons—natural athleticism paired with rigorous training aided in his groundbreaking efforts. But his distinction as a world-class fighter comes most prominently as the result of extraordinary experience and a diverse pedigree.
Silva's resolve can't be broken because of the sheer quantity of fights he's completed, along with the varying ways in which he's managed to secure victory. Any fighter striving to reach such rarified air must be willing to clock in similar time and likely endure countless hours of training in various martial arts. Fedor Emelianenko , widely regarded as the greatest heavyweight fighter in MMA history, was about as soft spoken and mild mannered as a cage fighter could be.
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