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Blog 7
22 Feb 2010 6:53PM
Busy week for me again this week, had Graham Turners (15-5-1 Total
Combat British LW champion) weight cut to keep an eye on, another 2 or
3 fighters coming into the final phase of there own fight camps and my
own training picking up as I'm now 6 weeks out from Bushido Challenge.
I've been using 6 week camps for fights for a few years now, settled on
this after trying everything from 4 weeks to 12 weeks, 6 weeks suits me
best. I've just completed a 6 week strength programme and increased my
general conditioning session to prepare for the 6 weeks of fight prep,
this allows me to train hard from week 1 to week 5 then have a tapering
off period of 1 week to allow me to 'peak' on the night of the fight.
First two weeks I'm working a lot of sport specific fitness as well as
fight specific techniques, I also start sparring more from week 1,
loading it up weekly for 4 weeks before going through a deloading
phase. Sparring is the main element of my fight prep, I use a bunch of
different of styles from full MMA sparring, to wrestling, rolling, thai
boxing. Always covering very range and working with people who are
going to push me.
I'm basically getting my arse kicked, boxing with better boxers, wrestling with better wrestlers and rolling with better jits players.
If there was a secret to getting good at MMA this would be it, if your
winning every round in every range in training/sparring your training
with the wrong people, and most probably not reaching any where near
your full potential. Obviously this doesn't mean if your getting a
kicking in training all the time your on the right road.
Got shows coming up the next three weeks in a row, some of my JR
fighters are in action on Sunday, the following weekend Sportfight
Scotland returns to Lanark auction market with a strong card featuring
a bunch of my team mates and fighters, I'm helping these guys finalise
there preparations in training just now, all are looking awesome. Main
event is Scotland's number 1 Featherweight John Cullen (11-4) taking on
Kevin Cairney, this fight should be a proper war, JC has one gear, 100
mph and hyper aggressive, Kevin I've seen a few times is tough as hell
and also aggressive both guys like to stand up and throw down, should
be exciting.
The week after that there is a big Thai show in Glasgow my better half
is fighting on, hopefully keeping her 14-0 winning streak running
against a south African girl whos name I cant pronounce, also on that
show is 2 of my students and one of my best pals Tommy Young defending
his Scottish thai boxing title. Should be an excellent event.
Yesterday I attended at SFC show in Stirling Scotland, as I mentioned
earlier Graham Turner was fighting in the main event a 4 man tournament
at 65.8kg. Graham went into it the favourite to win as he was the most experienced guy involved. Graham's first opponent was a tricky
Lithuanian guy who had some nice wrestling, but not a lot else. Graham
stopped him in the second round via TKO. In the final Graham faced
Swedish fighter Carlos Prada. I couldn't find much info on Carlos so the
first time I got to see him fight was his semi final match with Glasgow
based Polish fighter Majec Semibab. I know Majec as I've rolled with him
a few years back and had seen him box. I was really expecting Graham v Majec in the final but Carlos had other idea's and ran right over him,
excellent take down and nice GnP to set up submission early left me
both impressed and a bit worried as Graham had went 9 minutes putting
the Lithuanian guy away. The final was an excellent fight Carlos
dropped Graham early but didn't finish and other than a slick flying
armbar attempt and some takedowns wasn't doing much while Graham was
constantly working and hurt Carlos a few times. Judges gave it to
Graham, he went home with 15-5-1 pro record (dudes just turned 22) a
£1000 richer and with a ton of free supplement for winning fighter of
the night, I went home relieved and mega happy. I've coached Graham
since he was 14 years old, he is like my little brother in some ways.
SFC show was an excellent success for my team 5-0 in MMA (Tuner win
twice, Scotty Ward, Ally McRae and Ryan McFarlane also win) and 1-0 in
Thai (Micheal Wiseman) the show was excellent all round, very
professional and well run and a great addition to the Scottish MMA scene
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