Friday, August 9, 2013
Silly & Pointless and MMA News to Kick Off Your Weekend!
Gegard Mousasi has called out Vitor Belfort (the guy with a legion of fans and highlight reel KO's, currently within a fight of a title shot), whereas Gegard Mousasi to the casual fan is the guy who fought that guy from Sweden and could barely pick the unknown
Belfort's recent UFC resume:
Mousasi's:
In other predictably expected news, Ronda Rousey says she "could be" done fighting in two years. She waxes poetic about a road trip and the realization she could lose after having her back taken in her last fight, then comments something about how you can die in the Octagon. I bet her riding around in SoCal traffic is statistically far more dangerous than a sanctioned MMA bout in her division.
That acting but likely figures in as she's made some easy money, but other than Oleg Taktarov, the likes of her making money long term is probably about as good as Rampage Jackson's acting career.
Leandro Lo vs Jacob Mackenzie: From 2012-2013
Below I've linked 2 Leandro Lo matches against the same opponent: Jacob Mackenzie.
The matches begin similarly with Mackenzie shooting a low single, but in 2012 Mackenzie immediately goes to a deep half position whereas in 2013, he works more diligently for the low single but is ultimately reversed by Leandro Lo with a sacrifice throw/sumi gaeshi type turnover b/c Mackenzie stops driving with the single leg and goes static for a bit, allowing Leandro to react and adjust.
The 2013 match is vintage Lo with his knee through, active posting with the left hand, punching the right hand through to underhook as he knee through passes or cross facing Mackenzie's face away with the back of his right forearm and virtually stuffing all manner of Mackenzie's attempts to spin underneath and sweep from deep half. In 2013, Mackenzie briefly gets to one legged x-guard which Lo steps over, and briefly has spots in deep half but the show is by and large Leandro Lo.
In the 2012 Match, Leandro very quickly punches his right hand through to the underhook then Gable grips to force the knee through pass on Mackenzie by the 1:15 mark. Mackenzie gets back to half-guard and Leandro Lo must restart with his knee through and gets back to active posting with the left hand, right hand in the cross collar and working his knee through pass again. It's not until the 3 minute mark that Lo passes Mackenzie's half-guard/deep half switching back and forth.
At 6:21 Mackenzie almost takes Lo's back in identical fashion to the way he does from deep half in the 2013 match, but Lo ultimately scrambles to make enough space to come up to knee through the middle pass as usual.
Mackenzie does a far better job than most of the guys I've seen face Lo (Clark Gracie comes to mind, as does Sean Roberts - granted, a newly minted black belt, but the list of guys Lo just quickly passes their guard is very long indeed).
First up - Leandro Lo vs Jacob Mackenzie from the CBJJE Pan Ams in 2012
Second up - LEandro Lo vs Jacob Mackenzie from the CBJJE Mundials in 2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Thursday's Strangle Dossier: Head Down, Loop Choke - Flavio Canto Ed.
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One of my coaches is crafty with the loop choke. If you're passing the guard, and your head is down, the loop choke is coming. Period.
The Canto strangle is one of the ones highlighter here (first), and the quick loop choke to victory for an opponent who's not paying attention or ignores the danger sign of the grip in the collar/lapel, pays for his hastiness.
One of my coaches is crafty with the loop choke. If you're passing the guard, and your head is down, the loop choke is coming. Period.
The Canto strangle is one of the ones highlighter here (first), and the quick loop choke to victory for an opponent who's not paying attention or ignores the danger sign of the grip in the collar/lapel, pays for his hastiness.
And more about the (Flavio) Canto Strangle:
More of Flavio Canto's matwork/newaza:
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Tito Ortiz ACL Surgery Edition
Apparently, Tito Ortiz is going to fight Rampage Jackson in a cage roughly 6 months after ACL surgery.
He also claims he was back drilling 6 weeks after surgery.
This is the same Tito who claims he fought with a cracked skull and virtually every other unimaginable injury someone could fight with/through/whatever in his various losses.
At any rate, if he is fighting 6 months removed from ACL surgery (replacement as he claims) he is actually even less intelligent than I previously suspected. My surgeon made absolutely clear to me that the graft heals and attaches to bone at the 4-6 month mark but that doing too much too soon weakens that connection and leads to failure down the road. Training anything resembling MMA is a sure fire recipe for disaster, just ask Dominic Cruz or King Mo among many others.
The graft has to heal and the muscles in the leg have to strengthen, and you have to reacquire your coordination.
At any rate, don't believe everything you read...or believe it and know it is a terrible idea.
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