Category Archives: MMA Training

MMA Toolbox: Guillotine Choke

By Cameron Gidari | Published: December 14, 2011

Last Saturday at UFC 140, fans watched UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones choke Lyoto Machida unconscious with a vicious standing guillotine choke. It was another submission victory for the fast-rising Jones, and a stark contrast to Brian Ebersole’s post-fight speech earlier in the night, where he claimed that in his martial arts experience, the [...]

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MMA Toolbox: Stay Safe in the Guard

By Cameron Gidari | Published: October 20, 2011

As fledgling mixed martial artists, I understand the desire to fill your toolbox with as many offensive maneuvers as possible. Submissions are exciting to learn, they look great on TV, and there’s a feeling of accomplishment when you feel your opponent finally give up and slap the mat. There is a type of certainty when [...]

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MMA Toolbox: Rear-Naked Choke

By Cameron Gidari | Published: October 10, 2011

For this edition of the MMA Toolbox, we at the official TapouTVTC.com blog are excited to equip you with your first fight-finishing technique. And when it comes to the fight game, I prefer chokes above all other types of offensive finishers. For one reason, a properly applied choke is not something that your opponent can [...]

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MMA Toolbox: Double-Leg Takedown

By Cameron Gidari | Published: September 29, 2011

Wrestling can be one of the most frustrating aspects of mixed martial arts to learn, but it is also one of the most crucial. Having the ability to dictate where a fight takes place is often the difference between a win and a loss, and you cannot do that without a solid wrestling foundation. We [...]

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Welcome to Your MMA Toolbox

By Cameron Gidari | Published: September 23, 2011

One of my favorite thing about the martial arts, and about mixed martial arts specifically, is that there is always something new to learn. My old martial arts instructor used to hammer this point home. He told his students that he did not consider himself a black belt, but an advanced white belt, because he [...]

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The Importance of Visualization

By Cameron Gidari | Published: September 15, 2011

Here on the official TapouTVTC blog, we recently talked about the importance of attitude in your MMA training. Part of that proper attitude involved taking time to make sure that you are mentally focused and prepared for training, something that a lot of beginner martial artists do not do. Today, I want to touch on [...]

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New Release: TapouTVTC Boxing with UNLV Coach Chris Ben

By Cameron Gidari | Published: September 9, 2011

Boxing and mixed martial arts have a complicated relationship. With both being combat sports cut in a similar fashion — both have pay-per-view revenue models, a sense of prizefighting grandeur etc. — it seems only natural to compare the two. Some MMA fans point to the declining boxing ratings as proof that MMA has ‘replaced’ [...]

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Five Ways to Get the Most Out of Your MMA Training

By Cameron Gidari | Published: August 31, 2011

The TapouTVTC.com team was in Albuquerque recently, shooting some technique videos with one of, if not the best coach in the game, Greg Jackson. In between takes, we were chatting with Coach Jackson about what it takes to become a great mixed martial artist, and he insisted that there was one trait above all else [...]

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A Total-Body Workout the Mixed Martial Arts Way

By Cameron Gidari | Published: August 18, 2011

Why are mixed martial artists the best-conditioned athletes on the planet? One of the biggest reasons — and one of my favorite things about training — is that everything you do in your MMA routine works multiple muscles at once. MMA is a true full-body workout. We’ve all seen the guys in the gym that [...]

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Skip the Jogging: Cardio the Mixed Martial Arts Way

By Cameron Gidari | Published: August 10, 2011

Rocky features one of the most iconic training scenes in sports movie history. You know the one, where a sweatshirt-clad Sylvester Stallone jogs through the frosty streets of Philadelphia, tenderizes meat with his bare hands and pumps out one-armed pushups in preparation for a showdown with heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. And when you think about [...]

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