The best coaches in MMA aren’t experts in many martial arts, you don’t have to be a black belt in 2 or 3 martial arts to be a coach in MMA. The truth is that the best coaches in the business are experts in only one discipline, some of them are experts in two, but … Read more
Let’s start with this statement, being a great fighter doesn’t mean being a great coach. Coaching and fighting are two separate things. Being a coach requires different skills than fighting. This is valid for all fighting disciplines, MMA, Kickboxing, boxing, etc. Why you don’t have to be a great fighter to be a great coach? … Read more
UFC fighters and MMA fighters, in general, have been torn between these two choices, should I be an exciting fighter and go for slug fests regardless if I win or lose, or should I be a calculated fighter and focus only on winning regardless if my performance is boring or exciting? So, should you as … Read more
As a coach, should I get personal with my fighters, or should I keep it only professional? Combat sports are different from sports like football, basketball, etc. MMA, boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, etc. are all sports that tap deep into one of the most basic human instincts which is fighting. A football or basketball coach … Read more
Since the coming of Khabib Nurmagomedov to the UFC in 2012, a huge debate sparked about which discipline is better, Brazilian jiu jitsu or sambo. Khabib even dared to challenge the Brazilian jiu jitsu community by wearing a t-shirt saying “If Sambo was easy, it would be called Jiu-jitsu”. Khabib’s T-shirt enraged the jiu jitsu … Read more
Since the death of ONE Championship star Yang Jian Bing in December 2015 due to cardiopulmonary failure after a brutal weight cut, ONE Championship has made the decision to revolutionize the world of MMA and change the culture of weight cutting. In 2016, ONE FC came up with a revolutionary method for weigh-ins and sparked … Read more