Many students, such as myself, are vacationing heartily on fall break. If you’re not wasting time as effectively as I am – perhaps you have a real job/kids/responsibility – you can make up for it by watching these videos below. Happy fall break.
Tags: Ameri Do Te, bas rutten
I just watched something that was informative, funny, and freaking sweet. Weighing in at just over two hours, Joe Rogan “interviews” Bas Rutten and lets him just run off with the mic – much to the listening pleasure of all. You may or may not like Joe Rogan, but everyone should be a Bas Rutten fan. (Warning: these boys can get pretty raw, and this mature content is not for all audiences)
Anyway, since you may not have the attention span, nor the time to listen to it all, I’ll give you the recap. In no particular order:
Bas sounded off on his experience in kick boxing, MMA, and fighting in Japan; we think MMA is big now when 15,000 people show up to a UFC even; in the heyday of Pride, these events were selling out in Japan with 40, 50, and even 70,000 raving fans in attendance. Things were nuts over there, and I’m not sure we really understand that nowadays.
Bas as a kid overcame some serious physical adversity; he had these intense asthma attacks that would last for days and days where he would gasp for air for every breath. Like many of his opponents, he punched them in the face hundreds of times until they were subdued. Also, he had some serious eczema.
Due to his experiences in lung stricture and subsequent training, he now has a product called the O2 trainer (o2trainer.com) – like a snorkel with different modular hole sizes – which may help you develop some lung power.
Bas got in some crazy bar fights in Europe. Super crazy.
Bas ended his fighting career mostly due to pain and injury – sounded like some pretty gnarly stuff – tendinitis, etc.
Bas loves training and competing, it is a pleasure to him.
He spoke liberally about transitioning into his sport commentating role.
He and a buddy learned from tapes in their garage – he was mostly self taught. Pretty bad ass.
Again, the link is http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12874240
Tags: bas rutten, crazy events of magnitude, Joe Rogan, Pride
So…. Anderson Silva knocks out Vitor Belfort with a front kick to the face. It was beautiful. The timing, the distance the expression on Silva’s face … it almost made me cry. Both for the beauty of the thing, but also because my hope for a new champ got KO’d as well.
The fun thing for me was all the hoopla post fight about the kick. People were going ape-shiz like they have never seen it before, and true, its not a bread and butter thing in the UFC.
This you probably already know. What you may not know, is that Anderson learned this technique from Steven Seagal, or so says Seagal.
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First of all, is it just me, or does Seagal look like “The Eradicator” from the Superman comic books? Because the glasses really sell the look.
As for his remarks about nobody really using it, etc, also like “The Eradicator”, there may be a small amount of fantasy going on.
The way I figure it, is that the teep kick from Muay Thai is close match to this kick, and that’s been around from the dawn of time – and Anderson is *ahem* fairly well versed in that. But hey, now that Seagal has brought the front kick to MMA, perhaps we will also see elbows to the face as well. Maybe even punching of the ribs. Who knows the crazy things is store for us?
Maybe he showed some different pointers or a style of doing it? I don’t know, but it would be awesome to hang out with these guys and find out. I bet its like a rap video, but with hot girls doing ninja stuff instead of clubbing.
I originally learned the front kick in Karate, and one time I accidentally kicked an opponent in the throat in a tournament (I was aiming for the face). It’s a nasty kick. A lot of force is going straight forward, and the structure of the stances with you and your opponent is like a head on collision. The kick is a bit slower and harder to hit with; the movement makes it tricky to adjust mid way through. Unlike a circular kick, which can just keep swinging onward to whack into an opponent, it can be avoided with good head movement. Below, a kung-fu version of the kick.
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The first time I saw the kick in MMA was with Bas Rutten. I remember thinking, “I’m going to have to keep that in my bag of tricks.” I know the resolution on the pics below aren’t amazing, but trust me, it’s Bas. (See video here).
Here’s a video of Rob Mccullough teaching the rear push kick, a variation of the one that KO’d Vitor.
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Anyway, the front kick is something we’ll probably see more of know that attention has been brought to it. Here are just a few more pics to please you.
True fact: Anytime a front kick to the face happens, a leprechaun gets a pot of gold.
Tags: anderson silva, bas rutten, front kick, Teep kick, UFC 126, Vitor Belfort
It almost seems that Bas Rutten has the patent on the liver shot – it’s something he does really well. The video above is short and sweet – and easy watch. I really like how Bas delineates between the hook and the liver shot – the latter being more uppercut than hook. And the visual of shanking someone with a knife blade between your knuckles, Wolverine style, … priceless Bas Rutten.
Anyway, the local boys over at Mushin Self Defense have an longer, more in depth video (below) talking about the finer details of the liver and striking it. The first five or so minutes is Sensei Brian taking with a medical doctor about the location and structure of the liver. The music in the background cracks me up.
One other thing – this punch is sometimes called a shovel hook, or a shovel punch, because of how it mimics the way you shovel snow in the winter time, something we all can relate to. To make the punch really hit hard, you need to get your hips behind it and drive through with your feet - without changing much of your vertical height. The video below is pretty decent and you can see the hip shift and the pushing through on the balls of the feet. Since they are coming from a kickboxing point of view, there is one notable correction for us MMA guys – their starting stance is a little wide (foot to foot) and a tad too “slim” (angle to the opponent).
Tags: bas rutten, body shots, Brian Yamasaki, liver shot, Mushin, punching, shovel punch, taking it to the mmat
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