Day 3

"The more I sweat in training, the less I bleed in the fight." - Georges "Rush" St Pierre

I believe that limiting your training to one teacher's knowledge and experience is to not give yourself the opportunity to have the most complete knowledge of a particular style of fighting and/or training. I have total faith in my coaches Jay, Mandy and Paul. However, it's nice to experience a slightly different style with a different "game." This is why I like to spend a few nights a week with a fellow MMA style fighter and friend, Andy.

Andy has a very broad style of stand up fighting based on the Muay Thai platform. He incorporates styles of martial arts such as Wing Chun, Boxing, Shotokan. While from a fighter's point of view, styles like Wing Chun, Karate, Shotokan are a great style of martial art, not all of them are truly effective in a fight. However, each style has at least some techniques which can be mixed into an effective stand up game. Andy's striking, to this point, is by far the best I've seen. Andy runs a small school within a school which dawns the name MOFUT (or "No form") martial arts.

Andy and friend Michelle will be joining me in training for the NAGA event in February.

Today's Training:
Today I will do a Circuit Training which is 45 minutes straight of continuous grappling with a variety of partners in order to improve cardio conditioning for the sport. Though there is no technique training here, it does allow me to take time to try some drilled moves to test effectiveness and close any holes in the techniques.

After this training, I will meet with Andy and Michelle to continue to work on conditioning as well as pass some ideas back and forth for new training ideas.

I will perform 25 minutes of strength training to include:

3 Rounds

20 Burpees (push up into a jump)
3 minute shadow boxing
Alternating triangle locks for 1 minute
Pendulum swings into sweeps for 1 minute