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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Marc Laimon and Cobra Kai JJ videos

Marc Laimon and his Cobra Kai JiuJitsu school in sunny Las Vegas is now online with fun webisodes including some mini tutorials and interviews with fighters. A lot of fight fans may recognize him from different seasons of SpikeTV’s The Ultimate Fighter show. In particular, this past season, Marc and Matt Serra got into a [...]

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 [...]

Rosstraining.com – Real Training for Real Fighters

Rosstraining.com is a fighter training site created my Ross Enamait. All the articles and videos are free. It seems to have a lot of relevant information for the amateur fighter looking to get into shape using affordable techniques and tools.
Also, check out Ross’ videos on YouTube.

Training in Hawaii

If you like sun, surf and sand, here are a couple of place to train in the Pacific.
Train with BJ “the Prodigy” Penn at his school in Hilo, Hawaii. They offer jiu-jitsu, boxing and kickboxing.
If you are just looking for a kick ass workout, go to Scrapper Athletic Club home of Crossfit Honolulu.
Here is [...]

OTM Wiki

OnTheMat.com has a wiki page on its site for all things JJ and MMA. A wiki is an online encyclopedia that is run and maintained by the public.
Need to know a fighters bio? Check out the OTMWiki!
Want to know what a chicken wing is? Or a flying armbar? Check out [...]

Team Quest’s Tips & Techniques

There are some good tips over at the Team Quest website:
- Check out Randy’s Top Ten Traning Techniques
- Check out The Law’s 10 tips to Success

Frank Shamrock Team Try-Outs – January 27 & 28

Frank Shamrock is looking for the next generation of MMA Athletes for the Shamrock Submission Fighting Team.
When: January 27 and 28, 2007, 11am – 3pm
Where: Shamrock Martial Arts Academy
5725 Winfield Blvd Suite 1
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