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Henry Cejudo – 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist – Wrestling Clinic

From MassWrestling.com
Henry Cejudo – 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist
MA USA Wrestling Presents:
“Legends of the Fall Wrestling Clinic”
4x H.S. State Champion ● 2x Pan American Champion ● 2x National Champion ● Youngest U.S. Wrestler in History to win Gold Medal ● 2nd youngest of 7 siblings ● Jay Leno Appearance ● Oprah Winfrey Show Appearance ● Featured [...]

Tito Ortiz Seminar – Throwdown Training Center San Diego – Sept. 5

from Throwdown Elite Training Center – San Diego:
“That’s right everyone, the “Huntington Beach Bad Boy,” and former UFC Champion Tito Ortiz will display his talents right here at Throwdown Elite Training Center, Friday, September 5, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Don’t miss this special opportunity to learn Tito’s “No Holds Barred” approach to MMA.  Tito [...]

Beast Skills – Bodyweight strength training and gymnastics

http://www.beastskills.com/tutorials.htm
READ: ATTEMPT THESE SKILLS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
Well at least that’s what the website says…
The guy was a former gymnast who details how to do different handstands, push-ups and squats.

Bruce Lee’s Top 7 for Getting Your Life in Shape

“As you think, so shall you become.”
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
The Positivity [...]

Randy Couture Camp – May 2-4 at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas

“We are holding our next camp at our Vegas gym May 2-4. For $500 you get 8 hours of training. Randy, Mike Pyle and Jay Hieron will be instructing at the camp. It is limited to the first 40 people who sign up. Randy likes to keep the camps small so that everyone gets individual [...]

Get in Fight Shape Contest with InsideFighting and Burn with Kearns

Each Monday for the next four weeks InsideFighting will present a new piece of great instructional content from Kevin Kearns. Kevin has been a strength and conditioning coach as well as a corporate wellness consultant for over 20 years and is the strength and conditioning coach for UFC fighters Kenny Florian, Stephan Bonnar, and WEC [...]

Enson Inoue Seminar in Vancouver – April 27th – 1PM

Enson Inoue Seminar in Vancouver – April 27th – 1PMFormer PRIDE fighter Enson Inoue will be doing a seminar at Fisticuffs gym in Vancouver Washington with TUF 6 fighter George Sotoropilous. It will be a BJJ/MMA seminar for 3 hours at $65 per person and the first 15 people will get a free limited addition [...]

Hybrid Fitness – Exercise of the Week

If you are ever looking for a new exercise to throw into the mix, check out Taku’s Hybrid Fitness “Exercise of the Week.”

http://hybridfitness.wordpress.com/category/exercise-of-the-week

IFL To Hold Three Tryout/Draft Sessions in October

“The Hunt is on this October” as IFL Coaches To Evaluate Talent At Combine-Style Workouts in N.Y., Chi., L.A.
IFL DraftNEW YORK, September 25, 2007- The International Fight League will conduct IFL 2008 Draft, a series of combine-style workouts for aspiring professional mixed martial artists to be held in conjunction with L.A. Boxing on successive Saturdays [...]

New Season Ultimate Fighter: Mac Danzig

Last week was the season premiere of The Ultimate Fighter show.. this time the coaches are Matt Hughes and Matt Serra who will be fighting at the end of the season sometime in December.
One of the fighters who I have always heard about but didn’t know much about, Mac Danzig, is in the latest season [...]

MMA Training in England – Wolfslair & Bisping

On UFC 75 tonight, one of the match-ups is between Michael Bisping and Matt Hamill. They were both on the Ultimate Fighter Show and both fought for Tito Ortiz. They both are great fighters and never had the chance to fight each other on the show and now they have the chance in [...]

Training at TeamQuest in Temecula, CA

Dan Henderson is fighting Quinton “Rampage” Jackson tonight at UFC 75 in England. Dan is one of the founding members of TeamQuest along with Randy Couture and Matt “The Law” Lindland.
Dan manages TeamQuest – teamquestmma.com in Temecula, CA. There were no prices but but most of these places are fairly affordable [...]

Randy Couture’s Gym in Las Vegas

Check out his gym in Vegas: http://www.xtremecouture.tv
The prices are fairly reasonable:
$25 for the day (go to Vegas… for the price of a crappy shirt you can train at XtremeCouture)
$125 for the week
$90 for the monthly membership/ 2x a week
$150 for the monthly membership/unlimited
There is also a VIP package but you should check out the [...]

Human Weapon on the History Channel

Human Weapon on the History Channel is a very good show. Check your local listings. It stars MMA fighter Jason Chambers and former pro football player/wrestler Bill Duff. They travel around the world and learn different styles of martial arts and at the end of the episode, they take what they have [...]

Randy Couture Xtreme Camp (from MMA.tv)

July 20 – 22 At Xtreme Couture MMA in Las Vegas Cost: $500 plus lodging Space is limited to 40 students
Spend a weekend in Las Vegas training with the Pros. You will learn from UFC Champion Randy “The Natural” Couture and Elite XC veteran Mike Pyle.
There will be [...]

Getting Sponsors for Fighting

It’s hard for fighters who are just starting out to have a day job and try to train at night. In a perfect world, we would have Xyience beating down our door trying to give us a $100K sponsorship, but when you are Joe Blow and not in the UFC, that makes is a [...]

Enson Inoue Seminar – June 3rd

What: It will be a MMA Seminar with with me Enson Inoue When: Sunday June 3rd, 2007 Where: R1 Center (formerly rAw Training Center) in El Segundo, CA Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Cost: $30 at the door cash only
Directions to r-1 Gym: http://www.r1gym.com/wst_page6.html

OnTheMat NorCal Hero’s Tournament – May 26, 2007

http://onthemat.com/norcalheros.html
The OTM NorCal Hero’s Tournament
Saturday, May 26 in Union City
Brought to you by OntheMat.com in association with One World Martial Arts
A No Gi Tournament for the Bay Area!
I have literally traveled around the globe to cover submission grappling and as a lifelong resident of the Bay Area I’m proud to say that some of the [...]

YouTube the place for MMA tips

Don’t know how this guy is able to post these videos or if he actually owns them but he shows clips of 1-2 different moves from some of the top MMA fighters and trainers.
I definitely recommend checking them out just for the sheer instructional value that you are getting for free. Trainers include Pat [...]

Frank Shamrock try out videos from his mySpace

Frank posted some videos of the tryout for his team. They are pretty interesting as far as what are some of things that you have to be able to do to be a part of his team.
1st Part of tryouts – Conditioning
2nd Part of tryouts – Fighting

BJ Penn Online Tutorials

BJ Penn, former UFC Champion and Season 5 TUF coach, has some online tutorials at his website www.bjpenn.com on MMA training. It is all Flash-based, but hopefully in the future it might be downloadable to an iPod or something.

300 Workout – Be Like the Spartans

Josh Hill has an excellent post with videos of the training that the actors had to undergo for the filming of Frank Miller’s movie 300. They worked out using kettlebells and bodyweight exercise training for performance rather than solely for physiques.

The Ultimate Fighter – Season 6 – Welterweight Try-Outs

UFC’s The Ultimate Fighter season 6 welterweight fighter tryouts will be held at the Palms Hotel and Casino, Tuesday, April 10th beginning at 8am PT.
If you’d like to compete for a spot on the next season, fill out the application and send it to the address on the application. It must be postmarked no later [...]

Duke Roufus and Karo Parisyan training tips on YouTube

YouTube is my favorite hotspot for finding cool training tips for mixed martial arts. WorldMartialArts, which can be found at www.groundfighter.com, is an instructional video site that offers little tidbits of training advice to make you more enticed to buying their videos.
World Muay Thai Champion Duke Roufus shows everything from how to throw combos [...]