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Hell yea brother im thinking of picking up mma now but I'm a striker not a grappler. I think grappling is for strikers that aren't good at it... haha

BTW You ever heard of Vadha? I was training in that for a bit while I was in florida

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Kyle Chandler

In my experience... which is not vast in the least... pretty much UFC and a few drunken bar fights in Korea... you have to be top of the line, world class, as a striker to keep the grapplers away from you. Heck, you would still have to learn grappling to know how to counter the grappler's offensive grappling in order to create some distance between the two of you.

I understand that and wouldn't mind dabbling in it and learning counters....But I would not be intending on being on the ground with a guy that is asking for his friends to stomp my head in.

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"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door"

Kyle Chandler

Plenty of strikers at AFS if you'd prefer to trade strikes at people. You just have to be willing to accept hard contact because that's the default standard there. :)



Heard of it but I know little about it.

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Peter V. Dell'Orto
http://strength-basics.blogspot.com

That's actually a very common statement. But I don't think it's grounded well in an understanding in grappling. Grappling isn't ground fighting, ground fighting is a subset of fighting locations and it can and should include striking. Grappling is controlling your opponent through grip and positioning. You can - and should - be able to do it standing as well as on the ground. If you can control your opponent, you can control who gets to strike and how.

I've had someone claim that grappling was useless, but then you arm drag them, get behind them, and put on a standing choke while you hold them like a shield in front of them . . . and they see a little of the potential value. Hard for some drunk jerk's so-called friends to stomp on your head when you are standing behind their buddy choking him unconscious. And it's hard to get there without grappling.

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http://strength-basics.blogspot.com

Very nice pete haha btw I have a new journal on here called getting it done if you want to take this to that thread....BTW Man how are you how have you been? Last I recall about you you werent even in the states and you were using children as weights haha

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Kyle Chandler

We usually honor the convention of the journal threads being for their owners only, and comment in this section. Now that non-OPs aren't locked out of the journals there could be exceptions, but it seems a little cleaner to use the journal for oneself, and allow comments in the comments section.

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.--Francis Chan

John,

I've been back in NJ for 3 years now. I'm still training MMA but mostly I'm competing in grappling tournaments. I lift over at DeFranco's Training in Wyckoff, work at a different gym nearby, and I do MMA up in Mahwah.

It's the Mahwah class I'm inviting you to. :)

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Peter V. Dell'Orto
http://strength-basics.blogspot.com

I love the grappling. Stand Ups and Separations usually peeve me, but I understand why they do it... on the big money shows

Oh I know doc... I was referring to my other comments on my OTHER journal haha... cause there is a comment section just like this one but since I am john corless this will work. haha

Peter I talked to a friend of mine about MMA he actually teaches in the syracuse area im not sure what he's teaching but thursday Im going and starting it up. Should be interesting.

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Kyle Chandler

Just wanna let anyone who reads my journal know that im giving my legs an extra day of rest cause i'm gonna destroy them tomorrow night cause I have two days off afterwards.

Also going to try doing some cleans tonight on top of deads...biceps and back baby biceps and back.

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"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door"

Kyle Chandler

Oh, they're kind of small, but I wouldn't call them "baby biceps"!

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.--Francis Chan

I have that mentality doc. With that mentality I will rule the world. If I'm never big enough strong enough or good looking enough. I will ALWAYS strive to get better. That's me haha.

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"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door"

Kyle Chandler

I was just making a joke about your phrase "biceps and back baby biceps and back."

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.--Francis Chan