Boxing for MMA: Building the Fistic Edge in Competition & Self-Defense for Men & Women
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Although dramatic head kicks and garrote-tight submissions may get most of the airplay in highlight reels, the stats show that punching combinations and knockouts reap more MMA victories than any other fighting technique. This boxing primer not only covers the basics, including stance, footwork, punches, and combinations, it takes these boxing skills and views them through an MMA prism that addresses the realities of the mixed martial arts game. While there are some must-know fistic skills for MMA, there are also more than a few boxing tactics that will get you smashed in MMA. Boxing for MMA builds on the good and tosses the bad, discussing the differences in strategy and tactics when it comes to facing likely MMA scenarios. Matchups covered include Boxing vs. Wrestling, Boxing vs. Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing vs. Muay Thai, Boxing vs. the Slugger, Dirty Boxing Inside the Clinch, and Boxing off of the Fence. All the techniques are illustrated in hundreds of action-sequence images, making this guide the go-to resource for blending boxing skills into your fighting arsenal.
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Boxing for MMA - Mark Hatmaker
Intro: Boxing for MMA
I think you can guess from the title of this manual what we’ll be focused on this time, but I still want to clarify a few things. First of all, this manual is all about Boxing for MMA and not Boxing in addition to MMA. What do I mean by that?
… separation of training, while allowing an athlete to hone a particular facet of the game, ignores the first M
in MMA, which … stands for mixed.
Often the distinct and disparate elements of MMA are instructed and/or trained as if they were separate sports in a cross-training fashion that the fighter/athlete is expected to meld spontaneously in the face of fire. For example, a typical MMA class schedule may show a session for Jiu-Jitsu and wrestling, another session for clinch work and boxing and another separate session for Muay Thai and free rolling.
Yes, the preceding broad categories of combat sports are all important elements of MMA, but this separation of training, while allowing an athlete to hone a particular facet of the game, ignores the first M
in MMA, which as we all know stands for mixed. Just where exactly is the mix in this sort of separation represented by the above schedule?
Here we strive to take one (and only one) important aspect of the game and address how to train it to blend, to mix seamlessly with the rest of your MMA game.
There is wisdom in emphasizing certain targets of focus within any sport, but making them too far removed from other aspects of the game may not allow the burgeoning athlete/fighter to meld them as speedily or intelligently as we hope for. At the very least we should blend as many different aspects as we can manage into a single session so that we hone to the specificity principle of conditioning/training, which dictates that the more closely we adhere to what the sport/game conditions actually are, the greater success we will have in manifesting our hard-worked skills under pressure. There is a Special Forces Maxim that states this beautifully:
Let your training be reflective of battlefield conditions.
I have witnessed good athletes who are subjected to separate but equal
training schedules box well on boxing night and shoot well on takedown night and roll well on roll night, but when it came to MMA scrimmage night, well, you could sometimes see the visible shift between sports with little stutters and shudders as if the fighter’s combat transmission needed a visit to the mechanic.
Now this transmission slipping problem will in all likelihood disappear as more time and experience are garnered, but would we not be doing the fighter a greater service by taking good care of that transmission from the get-go? This sort of transmission preventative maintenance is exactly what we have in mind with this manual. Here we strive to take one (and only one) important aspect of the game and address how to train it to blend, to mix seamlessly with the rest of your MMA game.
No balky transmissions for this crew.
Separate will not equal equal
Let’s flog a dead horse. The late legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach Carlson Gracie offered the following wisdom:
Punch a Jiu-Jitsu black belt in the face once and he becomes a brown belt, punch him twice and he becomes a purple belt.
Mr. Gracie is calling our attention to the fact that even a combat sport as formidable as BJJ can leave a skilled competitor coming up short in the face of the combat mix. And, of course, this entropy of single sports/art under fire does not hold only for BJJ.
The boxer who has never faced a takedown in his life is going down.
The wrestler who has never taken a full-on educated hook to the chin is going down.
The BJJ black belt who has never tasted the femur-bruising thud of a trained Muay Thai leg kick is going down.
The Sambo practitioner who has never tasted a solid uppercut to the liver is going down.
All effective arts/sports are subject to entropy if the competitor has never had experience with the newly introduced mix.
To combat Mr. Gracie’s observation, we see fighters and trainers wisely training outside of their root game, but often this is what leads to the cross-training problem we previously mentioned. There seems to be an assumption for some that training good pure BJJ and training good pure Muay Thai will create a double threat. Maybe, maybe not. Again, what is missing is the mix.
Let’s go back to Mr. Gracie’s wisdom. The BJJ black belt does not simply need the overlay of a good striking game to stop the devaluing of his black belt to a brown belt. He needs a striking game that dovetails and accents his current striking game — one that has modifications made in the striking for his Jiu-Jitsu and one that has modifications in his