There is so many MMA fighters out there but only a few making it to the top and why is that, unless you going to an amateur fights just as a hobby or you wanna get to the pro level of fighting just to get better at MMA but otherwise you need to put goals to get to the top if you decided to make a career at MMA, right, there are many organizations besides bellator or ufc that you can make money too, but why only few are making it to the top?
now the first reason is:
my coach told us one time that the idea of fighting is ones you got the technique you have to find a way to apply it at fighting, meaning lets say if you only learned 10 techniques right now, and they are striking,takedowns and etc... you gotta basically isolate with yourself and find a way how to get better at those techniques all the time , the more you drilling and finding a way to apply it at fighting and getting better at it then youll be able to grow, of course you gotta have a a good coach who can teach you good techniques but you have to be able to do everything yourself, is all about you and how hard you work and the time you putting in to work.
we had the champion in radical mma who got to the ufc but couldnt keep going and retired because he got covid and it messed up his lungs so he couldnt keep going, he had a full time job as a manager in certain company and he used to come to train only for an hour a day, which is not making sense, in order to get to the level of being in the ufc you have to train maximum twice a day , but in this one hour my coach used to teach exactly what he need to learn in order to be ready to a fight, i still dont know how did he do that but then i realized and understood how, simple, is to learn the important stuff and develop them, in radical mma we have a certain techniques that we learn and we do them everyday ,usually every gym teaching diffrent techniques everyday, but in our gym yes we are teaching new techniques but mostly we just drilling over and over again same stuff that we doing.
and why we doing this same stuff?
beacause those techniques thats all you need in order to do the defence and offence at the same time, all the takedowns and the escapes and all those stuff. once you doing all the time at least 3 times a week then it becomes a habit . once it becomes a habit then once youll be fighting it just gonna work, once i went to one mma gym in new jersey because i had to stay by my friend and i went to visit and training there,
and i didnt knew so much at that time , and all i knew is those techniques that we drilling non stop at our gym, so i was sparring a ''pro fighter '', and even though he most of the time was in control but i was able to apply my techniques and it didnt just worked i was able to stay in control and be able to defend and not giving up.
so thats the idea of take whatever youve been taught and just do the homework yourself and pass the exam , same thing like was in high-school, you got an homework to do in order to pass the exam and some getting 70% some 50% and some 100%, so most of the time it depends on you, and of course you have to have a heart to it like you need it in order to train like that and really think and drill about the technique.
2. shadow boxing: shadow boxing can be very confusing sometimes especially at the beginning when you only getting started , but once you just starting punching and throwing kicks and adding sprawls for at least 5 minutes a day , youll be completly diffrent, shadow boxing gives your mind react to situations like, punching,kicking or if someone tries to takedown you then you know and to sprawl and take the back, when you finished drilling and isolate with yourself, then the next step is to apply it to shadow boxing, you can strike with yourself and a at the time time try to take the dummy throw it and start the ground and pound game, punching,sumbissions and everything. you just have to figure it out once you shadow box that you in a fight right now and the opponent next to you, what would you do? just to show a wheel-kick or elbows not gonna work, so you have to make sure you doing the right thing, and apply all the defence , and try put yourself at the corner too to imagine someone punching you there and you protecting yourself, its a a hard work so you need to find a way how to become better at everything you doing yourself, basically ,dont think about ufc right now or about get to the top level, just think what should i fix or put goals to achieve in the next month,three or a year.that way you can grow, because if you have a board vision of for example, getting to bellator in 4 years and you started mma few months ago isnt making sence, maybe yes you can , but isnt gonna motivate you its just gonna disract you from focusing on the technique and on yourself,so you gotta make sure all the time that you focusing on something specific every week.
lets say the Arm triangle choke for example, is very hard choke to submit someone, since isnt requires much strength, but its find a way to place your shoulder more down than on the chin and the choke is there, but it took me time to actually get that choke the right way when you sparring, a good fighter never gonna tap if you putting strength on the arm triangle choke, so thats why im saying, get good at one thing and make sure its working then move on to the next one, believe me, by learning each technique everyday and getting messy not gonna bring you to the top, lets say in jiu jitsu, how many submissions from mount are there? a lot, but how many you really need to know? maybe a few to get the submission, same thing here at mma, lets say leg locks, leg locks are good to know and defend once you on the ground getting punched, is good find a way for a kneebar or a heel hook, but is it more important than learning how to take the back properly? or how to double leg, or how to side control and mount escape? absolutely not, beacause most of the time you can risk at being at side control and being at mount and get punched,so you have to know those escapes very well and being in good control on the ground more than when you on top.
3. cardio-MMA conditioning: the MMA cardio is one of the hardest cardio out there beacause it involves all types of muscle fibers. the harder and the more time you put in to actually do a cardio the better, and youll be able to survive at the last round when you bleeding and cant breath, the more oxygen you have the better, but again as i said above and spoke in my last posts , you need first technique thats the most important so for you not to lose energy, in jiu-jitsu there is no strength, if there was strength , then hellio graicie wouldnt create jiu-jitsu for defeating bigger people, if you got the back and you choking the guy and he isnt tapping, just dont force it, dont lose energy, just try to find where is the mistake why he isnt tapping ,where is the kazushi { the control in japanese}, same thing with an Arm triangle choke there is no strength, if im using strength the guy never tap, but if im not he always tap since im doing the right technique and finding the kazushi. cardio and technique coming all together, shadow boxing is cardio too but i dont know if you ever tried TRX , if you tried you understand what im talking about, this thing is expensive right but one of the hardest exircise is with that one, after youll do it your body will be shaking , it has so many exircises in this small thing, i recommend you to try do exircises with TRX if you know how, if not you can text me and i can help you forward.
4. the habit:its very important to make a habit to come to the gym everyday to train, if not everyday then minimum 3 times a week,or otherwise your MMA training not worth anything,coming once or twice a week not gonna make you fighter and of course you are not gonna learn anything at all, and you just spending 250 dollars a month to the garbage,any movement or drill you learning you should practice it at least 300 times of repetitions a week in order to make it as a skill and not just knowing the move, in my gym the coach requiring the students to come minimum 3 times week or otherwise you not gonna learn anything ,thats the truth, its same thing as if you wanna learn right now skill of how to make money you learning the skill everyday right, beacause if you stop the course or take a break youll just lose anything you learned, thats why in dagestan they are so strict about missing day of training and what it means, in America most of the gyms do not care how long you coming or what days you didnt come, trust me its all buisness and nobody gonna tell you that,you the one who deciding how good you wanna be so you gotta make the decision.
thanks guys for reading hope you guys enjoyed, i would like to hear your opinion in comments below.
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