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Introduction
11 Jan 2010 11:22AM
Quick introduction, my name is James Doolan I'm a professional MMA fighter/coach from Lanark, I train with and represent Scotland's top fight team the Dinky Ninjas.
My next fight will take place at Bushido Challenge in Nottingham, April 3rd, I'll be fighting Lithuanian Artemij Sitenkov for the vacant Bushido Challenge Bantamweight title. The current European rankings have me at number 3 (behind WEC's Brad Pickett) and my team mate Paul 'the natural' McVeigh.
I'm looking forward to the fight, I'm on a good run of 4 wins just now and I've still got gears to go up, Artemij is a good fighter very slick grappler, 10-4 record, 10 submission wins and he seems to have a lot of ambition. I'm sure he will present me with some problems the fight should be a good test for me. Bushido Challenge is still in its infancy as a promotion but their first show had one of the best cards in Europe last year, their card for April is starting to come together and its looking awesome again, Allan Love the unbeaten Scottish Middleweight is on the card in what should be the start of a big year for him, I've fought on the same show as Lovey twice now and both of us have both performed well and got the W, he is like my big goofy lucky charm.
Just now I'm 12 weeks out, sitting a bit heavy at 72/73kg (committed carbocide over Christmas and New Year) I've been training 5 times a week just ticking over.
Training wise I'm just about to start a 6 weeks strength and conditioning programme, before I start my 6 weeks fight prep. I've pretty much got my fight training down now after a lot of trial and error in the past, I've tried everything from 12 week programmes to 5 weeks, 3 day splits, using no weight training, excessive amounts of cardio and other stuff. Last year with the help of my coaches/team mates Paul McVeigh, Gary Christie, Tommy Young and Lin Mindin I refined a 6 week programme that suits me to get ready to fight and the results I had last year show its working. (4 1st round wins against Ireland's top bantamweight Neil Seery, Steve McCombe ranked number 3 in Europe when we fought, and 2 unbeaten Fighters Jay McGuiness and Brazilian Hugo Leonardo)
Plan for the blog is to record some of my training, (I'll keep some of the secret ninja stuff to myself) along with updates on diet, weight issues and other stuff that a goes on in the run up to a fight on a weekly basis.
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