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Originally Posted by Anthony
When did you start training and what school? We are the same weight class, can you be ready to fight in August? 
Seriously, you nailed it on the head. Tonight I'm told I'm doing 100 reps of armbars from guard, 100 half guard escapes, 100 reps of kimuras from guard, and then go lift weights. Learning how to lift weights for fighting is drastically different from lifting to look good.
Even with all that aside, alot of us have been waiting for MMA to come up from the underground, so it's a victory of sorts having to listen to arm chair cage fighters spout off about how they would have done it or how it should be. |
I'm farrrrr from ready to fight with a well rounded guy
I'ma be LHW when I fight most likely. I'm already down from 275-280 to 240 since a year ago.
J-$ got offered to fight in the next shoot tournament thought, he has won his last couple Thai boxing matches. He's down at 205 (6'3).
I train at Force in Sherbrooke. They have boxing, thai, wrestling, no gui (MMA driven) BJJ, etc... pretty much the whole lot. Biggest name in the gym is Yan Pélerin... too bad the guy isn't strict in his training because he has the talent... We have a cage, a ring, full MMA driven weight gym and other stuff.
The MMA market is weird. Out here, the bikers are the main organised crime, and they are big time supporters of MMA and Shoot Box arround here... To give you an idea, the gym where I go at is pretty much free (kinda insane when it's considered one of the 2-3 nicest MMA gym in canada).
So it's very intimidating for someone to go to a show when it's full of steriods hooked bikers with their patch...
There is one major league in MMA. We've had guys like St-Piere, Coté, Loiseau, Goulet, Stout, Homminick, Snake Claveau etc... comming out of there to the UFC bastillion. Basicly our gym's team fights agaisn't 3-4 other major gyms team in shoot boxing, the best ones make it to TKO... Then to the UFC.
But the sport is still very underground.