Preventing the heavy bag from swinging

1 Clinch punches, standing against the bag and holding the bag with the other arm and doing punches.
2 Holding the bag with one hand and doing hook punches with the other hand.
3 Double hook punches.

4 With a heavy duty, thick bar rack it's possible to hold the rack with one hand and then hit the
  heavy bag with the other hand.

I also do this in my house and it works very well.

MMA notes

Leg or foot sweep and wrestling to a choke position.

Hitting on the ground or ground and pound, with hit to the head, hit to the ribs, hit to the head and so forth. For if you don't get through his defense.
Also:
-Hitting body, opens up the opponents defense for hitting the head
-Hitting the head, opens up the opponents defense for hitting the body

Escaping the clinch

Starting a clinch

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A couple of wrestling holds, positions and more.

 Clinch hold
 Bear hug
 Collar and elbow position
 Double collar tie
 Double underhooks

Major ground wrestling positions:
 Guard
 Rear mount
 Mount
 Knee on stomach
 Side control
 North south position
 Turtle
 Half guard
 Disengaged

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A couple of takedowns and wrestling techniques

 Double Leg Takedown
 Single Leg Takedown
 Snap Down Takedown
 Sit Through Escape
 Granby Roll Escape
 Pummel Escape
 Switch Escape
 Foot sweep takedown

 Arm drag

 Sprawl Defence

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Trying:
Opponent circles to the left of you, left round kick
Opponent circles to the right of you, right round kick 

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Drop hammer fists
-Falling movement and then a hammer fist
 Other hand for support and partial fall break

Drop punches
-Falling movement and then a punch
 Other hand for support and partial fall break

Jumping drop punch
-If legal

Jumping drop hammerfist
-If legal

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It's possible to knockout a standing opponent with a kick while on the ground

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Takedown against the cage

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Ground and pound while the opponent is against the cage

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Being able to do hammer fists and punches hard from any position on the ground

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Draw attacking
 Getting the opponent towards you and attacking

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Anti eye poke gloves
-Longer gloves and curved at the end

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Attack heavy bag, when heavy bag returns
-With a punch, elbow, kick or

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Shoulder bash to get opponent to where he can be attacked better and or harder for example.

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Hard push

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Shoulder strikes
-In clinch
-On the ground

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Sprawl, takedown defence.

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Standing punches and then ground and pound punches and hammerfists

Standing punches and then ground and pound punches, elbows and hammerfists

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Dash knee
-Sprint and knee

Dash kick
-Sprint and kick

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Jumping towards the fence and kicking of to make a punch or kick

New fighting sports I found of which three are MMA like

Combat sambo (Russian)

Shooto (Japanese)
Kudo    (Japanese)

All three are MMA like.

And I found khardiorda: wrestling, krivi: boxing and rkena: throws and grabs (Georgian)

Freestyle wrestling (Western)

And Bökh, wrestling (Mongolian)

MMA notes 2

 MMA notes 2

Winning by low kicks is possible
 You can knock down your opponent or hit him so hard with low kicks that he is defeated

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Getting out of holds, locks, chokes and bars.

There are multiple methods and one might work better then the other, depending on the situation.
 You basicly have to have some experience, some things might be dangerous in certain situations.
 And don't get forget to tab out when needed, really needed

1 Twisting, turning your way out
2 Brute force
   Maybe even pick him up
3 Also lay a lock or bar
4 Striking
5 Very rapid short movements, get crazy, agressive or and get out
6 Make yourself big, inhale and then suddenly exhale and get out
7 Everytime creating a little bit more space and holding the position

8 Maybe block his sight legally, might work. and a punch right in the face
  also blocks the sight and might dazzle for a short period of time. But I haven't tested this yet

With standing chokes, locks, holds and bars you might be able to throw the opponenemt over you
or take him down. Though you have to know when this is possible, there are some dangers.

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Written By Jeffrey Koelewijn

MMA notes

Ground and pound
 Takedown and throwing hard punches, hammer fists and or elbows

Slams
 Picking the opponent up and slamming him to the ground

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Clinching

In the clinch you can also do takedowns

In the clinch you can do punches, elbows and knees


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Keep your eyes on the opponent

Stay focussed

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Outsmarting the opponent

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You can read my boxing notes for boxing knowledge, information and training

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Learning from watching

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Doing low kicks can make the opponents legs weake for a certain time

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The knee to the head, takedown defence when the opponent attacks your waist or knee for
a takedown

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Sideways elbow, backward elbow in the clinch position

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Palm strikes legal ? They can be very hard

 Be carefull though hitting the heavy bag with palm strikes can be very hard on the wrists and injure the wrists
 And sideways palm strikes beyond 90 - 100 degrees between the under arm and upper arm can injure the biceps

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Guard training on the downside, on the ground

Punching while in the above position

Punching from the down position

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MMA notebook 1

Basic MMA notebook 1

MMA, mixed martial arts is a fighting sport, or dicipline that combines striking and grappling.


Striking is throwing punches and making kicks, knees and elbows.

And grappling concists out of takedowns, holds, locks, chokes and bars.
 With grappling a match is won by making the opponent tap out.


All rounders
 Are good at both striking and grappling

Strikers
 Mainly, or only win by striking and mainly try to prevent ground contact
Important for strikers:
 Takedown defence and ground survival

Grapplers
 Mainly, or almost only win by grappling and mainly, or almost only try to make the opponent tab out
Important for grapplers:
 Defence against striking, getting to the clinch, takedown and grappling fast and effectively


Written by Jeffrey Koelewijn