a rant on guard pulling in mma....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGkd6mlukoA

good stuff. I feel like half my time in class is teaching fundamental strategy on fighting whether it be for tournament, cage, or street. always telling them weigh their options vs. their opponents, and play to the weakness of their opponent. And I always tell them that if nothing else, pull guard and hold on like your life depended on it. Thanks for making that point which is often overlooked in todays mma

Good post, signed up from the UG to watch the rest of the video/technique. Didn't realize had to be pro. Nice one.

I dont mean to offend anyone but Eddie forgot another major part of a cage fight The Clinch niggas.

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Originally Posted by Aikijiujitsu

I dont mean to offend anyone but Eddie forgot another major part of a cage fight The Clinch niggas.

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good point but the objective of the clinch is either to strike or get a take down which falls into the other two catagories he mentioned

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Wylie

good point but the objective of the clinch is either to strike or get a take down which falls into the other two catagories he mentioned

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agreed

does anyone find that being good of your back makes your striking way better because you don't care about getting taken down.

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Wylie

good point but the objective of the clinch is either to strike or get a take down which falls into the other two catagories he mentioned

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I feel its a catagory within itself short strikes and throws different techniques than shooting a double or trying to kickbox someones head off examples would be Silva vs Franklin, Hendo vs Bisping, Liddel vs Couture 1. So you got the Muay thai clinch, Greco roman/judo clinch, and dirty boxing, clinch fighting is the shit.

I only like to fight off my back..my top game is shit. Whenever I get in sticky situations I pull guard. And it works for me. like 90% of my Jiu Jitsu wins come by something off my back. If not, it's something crazy like a gogoplata from mount, or a leg lock.

you can use the clinch to pull guard to... i view the clinch as the glue that links all the options together. if you have a good clinch, you can usually take the fight in the direction you want. you cant stop being hit as easily from a muay thai clinch. you cant stop takedowns from double underhook body tackle. you cant stop guard pulling from head and arm control.

i dont understand how you can be good on the bottom and bad on top. from my perspective, mount is just a more dominant version of rubber guard