{"id":1458,"date":"2018-08-03T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2024-02-15T19:48:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:48:33","slug":"basics-for-mma-sparring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"Basics for MMA Sparring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason for MMA was to find a way to let the different martial arts practitioners fight against each other and to find out which martial art \/ fighter is the most effective \/ best one. There are different sets of rules, but most of them has been advanced over the time to decrease the risk of really bad injuries for the fighters (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=2444\">more details<\/a>). These days the best MMA fighters aren&#8217;t training just one martial art anymore, they adapt the most effective allowed techniques from many martial arts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay calm and relaxed (prevents you and your opponent from getting hurt)<\/li>\n<li>Always watch your opponent (to react on attacks and find defense weaknesses)<\/li>\n<li>Never turn your back on your opponent (except: e.g. back kick, spinning elbow)<\/li>\n<li>Have a game plan (if it isn&#8217;t working try something else, but nothing to fancy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Positions:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn general there are two basic positions: standing and on the ground. If you are in a standing position it&#8217;s more about striking and less about submissions and on the ground it&#8217;s the other way around. Normally you are both in the same position, but that isn&#8217;t always like that.<\/p>\n<p><u>Stand-up fighting<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=4457\">Know the stances<\/a> and use them correctly\n<li>Keep your hands up (also if you are kicking)<\/li>\n<li>Close your mouth (upper teeth on lower teeth)<\/li>\n<li>Know the distances for your different strikes<\/li>\n<li>Use different striking\/kicking combinations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Clinch fighting<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=2488\">Get a good clinch hold<\/a> to get or defend the takedown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Ground fighting<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=1415\">Follow this hierarchy<\/a>, but as written there prefer the top positions for a Ground and Pound (GnP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Mixed positions<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standing: Get around his leg protection (for better stiking)<\/li>\n<li>Grounded: Bring your legs in between (for kicking and protection)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Transitions:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou should try to use a transition to get to the position in which you are better then your opponent. The transition from standing to the ground is a takedown and for the other way around it&#8217;s the stand-up.<\/p>\n<p><u>Standing takedowns<\/u> (MMA Fight DB, in order):<br \/>\nDouble leg, Single leg, Outside trip, Bodylock, Suplex, Duckunder, Hip Throw and Inside trip.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be careful during you takedown attempt to not run into a (flying) knee or end up tapping in a front head lock position.<\/li>\n<li>There are nearly no Shoulder Throws, cause you can&#8217;t really grab your opponents as necessary without them wearing a Gi.<\/li>\n<li>Also a Guard Pull is a takedown, but you should be sure that you are better on the bottom then your opponent on the top.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Grounded takedowns<\/u><br \/>\nDouble Ankle Sweep and Tripod Sweep<\/p>\n<p><u>Stand-up<\/u><br \/>\nRelease the hold \/ grips if you opponent already has it and then try to stand-up asap.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Attacks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Strikes<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Punches (Jab, Cross, Hook, Uppercut, Livershot, Hammerfist [s], Overhand, Backfist [s])<\/li>\n<li>Kicks (Front, Side, Roundhouse, Back [s], Hook [s], Axe, Tornado)<\/li>\n<li>Elbows (Horizontal, Side [s], Upward, Dropping)<\/li>\n<li>Knees (Front, Round, Flying)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>s &#8230; spinning (You can also execute this strike in a spinning variation)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=3631\">More details about kicks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>Submissions<\/u> (mma12, in order):<br \/>\nRear Naked Choke [ch], Guillotine Choke [ch], Armbar [jl], Leg Triangle [ch], Arm Triangle [ch], Kimura [jl], Brabo\/Darce Choke [ch], Anaconda Choke [ch], Heel Hook [jl] and Kneebar [jl]<br \/>\n&#8211; Submission types: Choke holds [ch], Joint locks [jl] and Compression locks [cl]<\/p>\n<p>Info: There is no Compression lock listed, but examples are Calf slicer, Biceps slicer and Achilles lock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=2471\">More details about submissions<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\nFrank Mir vs. Brock Lesnar (UFC 81 &#8211; 2008-02-02)<br \/>\nBrock was dominating Frank, but Frank got an epic sweep while he was grounded and Brock was standing. After he swept him to the ground, Frank finished him with a knee bar.<\/p>\n<p>Richie Martinez vs. Ahmed Amir (Brave CF 1 &#8211; 2016-09-23)<br \/>\nRichie has a real good ground game, but as typical for BJJ without striking. Ahmed has ground and pound Richie and he can&#8217;t find a submission while get punched, so he taps.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Weidman vs. Anderson Silva (UFC 162 &#8211; 2013-07-06)<br \/>\nSilva was quite famous for fighting with hands down and goofing around and has won a lot of fights with it, but during the fight against Weidman he took one step too far and got knocked out for it.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Weidman vs. Yoel Romero (UFC 205 &#8211; 2016-12-11)<br \/>\nWeidman was going for a Double leg takedown against Romero, but haven&#8217;t protected his head against the flying knee from Romero, which instantly knocked Wideman out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason for MMA was to find a way to let the different martial arts practitioners fight against each other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16661,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/16661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}