January 15, 2009
What Do You Want to Know About MMA?
I'm green with envy, because in a few weeks my friend Don Whitefield is traveling to Florida on a BJJ training trip. He's going to be training with some big names there, like Marcelo Garcia, Ricardo de la Riva, "Boca" Oliveira and Ricardo Liborio.
Ricardo Liborio has been in the news a lot recently, because he's the co-owner and head instructor for the mixed martial arts powerhouse known as American Top Team (ATT). He's also one of Carlson Gracie's most famous black belts. He won the 'most technical fighter' award in the 1996 BJJ World Championships, has competed at the highest levels of submission grappling, and has now turned his attention to producing MMA champions.
ATT has fighters in almost every UFC. For example, Denis Kang (who is fighting this weekend in UFC 93) calls ATT home, and raves about the quality of training there.
So here's the thing...
Since I can't go to Florida myself, I figured I'd ask Don to ask Ricardo Liborio some questions for me. I'm particularly interested in how BJJ has to be adapted to work in MMA, how competitors should balance different aspects of their training, and what a typical 'work week' looks like for their fighters.
But I'm also going to open the floor to you guys. Do you have questions about BJJ, MMA, or the relationship between the two. If you do, use the site contact form in the next few days and send me your TOP QUESTION. No promises, but I'll do my best to get an answer for you.
Let's get together ASAP and figure out ATT uses BJJ to dominate the UFC and MMA! (Sorry, I couldn't resist...).
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Ricardo Liborio has been in the news a lot recently, because he's the co-owner and head instructor for the mixed martial arts powerhouse known as American Top Team (ATT). He's also one of Carlson Gracie's most famous black belts. He won the 'most technical fighter' award in the 1996 BJJ World Championships, has competed at the highest levels of submission grappling, and has now turned his attention to producing MMA champions.
ATT has fighters in almost every UFC. For example, Denis Kang (who is fighting this weekend in UFC 93) calls ATT home, and raves about the quality of training there.
So here's the thing...
Since I can't go to Florida myself, I figured I'd ask Don to ask Ricardo Liborio some questions for me. I'm particularly interested in how BJJ has to be adapted to work in MMA, how competitors should balance different aspects of their training, and what a typical 'work week' looks like for their fighters.
But I'm also going to open the floor to you guys. Do you have questions about BJJ, MMA, or the relationship between the two. If you do, use the site contact form in the next few days and send me your TOP QUESTION. No promises, but I'll do my best to get an answer for you.
Let's get together ASAP and figure out ATT uses BJJ to dominate the UFC and MMA! (Sorry, I couldn't resist...).
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