Martial Arts Question of the Month - Ironlife Magazine Issue #23

What is your most memorable personal training experience or fight?

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VulgarTheClown

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WatcH OuT

Well I have one memorable moment in WTF tkd and KO someone with spinning high kick to his head (bandae dollyo tchagi), I felt bad for the kid but it boosted up my ego lol.

I also remembered a training moment when I was 16. Well most of the fighters in our gym were preparing themselves up to for a gala organized by the club in a sport hall. It was just great to train with them but well apart from each other. The beats in the gym were loud and all you could here is everyone was training his ass off like never before even we were training harder even we didn't fight. I think it was great because everyone was boosting each other up and I never trained like that before !!! Awesome experience !

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ThouArtAVillain

Anyway, I have a lot of memorable moments from training, but I think the two that stand out the most for me, was taking down Yakov Rudman who is master of Sambo and his father is the founder of Sambo 70 which is the biggest Sambo school in the world. I wrestled extensively in junior high and high school, but I couldn't get this guy down to the ground for the life of me no matter how hard I tried. One day we were rolling and I shot a low single on him and I don't know what was up, but I had his ankle/lower calf and I pulled back and down he went. Nothing fancy at all, in fact it was down right ugly I'm sure, but I got him down. It made me extremely proud. The next was my first sub. I had been doing nothing but grappling for 3 months straight and I could take down and control most of the other students who trained at about the same level as me without much of a problem, but I wasn't confident enough to do anything with it. Well one day, this kid Jacoby shot a double on me and I sank in a guillotine on him and pulled guard, which was uncharacteristic because I'm not comfortable in any form on my back at all. However I sank it good and he tapped. Again, nothing fancy and probably down right ugly, but I swear I felt like Pequeno that day.

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the thing

beating my opponents face into a bloody pulp

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Mr Boogaloo

-Throwing a front kick at the heavy bag, losing my footing and landing straight on my arse in front of the whole class.

-Getting bashed by a big boxer with a few of his little mates cheering him on...

-Kicking my mate a little low, not in the nuts, apologizing loads only for him to say it's fine and toe-punt me in the F straight away when we started again.

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Toffa

About 10mins ago I looked down and noticed I have a welt the size of a large egg on my foot from kicking, I feel quite manly at the moment

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Red Eagle

I remember when I got Ko-ed for the first time, it was more of a TKO but I was so stunned. I could give other examples like when I caught the best guy at my current gym w/a guillotine, cuz I've even dreamt the scene over, but the KO resonates most, not consciously, but instead when I step in and start boxing again. Honestly, I feel more for a guy getting KO-ed than subbed. I felt for Randy so much when he got caught last week.

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Mudrock

That would be my first MT fight, especially in the first round when I realized I was going to kick his ass. I wound up dropping him in the first with my right cross of doom and dominating him in the clinch the entire fight.

VulgarTheClown

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ironfist

My training experience that captured me in the sport was a 2 day seminar with Randy Couture, Matt Lindland, and Matt Thorton. I came for a small boxing back ground but was always interested in UFC fighting and kickboxing. I was also a tough scrappy kid looking for a hobby. I was sold on the sport. I got pretty badly beaten up by Matt Thorton and thought twice about things but the rest of the seminar was great. The thing about randy that sticks most in my mind is his clinch. All I could feel was incredible power and strength from a man that I outweighed by 20lbs. His personality also sold me. He was a great teacher and training partner. I've never felt as helpless in my life as rolling with those guys...I've now had the opportunity to train with Tito Ortiz, Chuck Liddel, Charles Gracie, Caesar Gracie, Vladmir Shahsenko and a few other...I'd like to go to chucks school for 2 weeks this summer to work on my standup...

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Johnny Blue Eyes

Since I'm still pretty fresh, every time my coach (Sambo world champ) teaches me some new stuff, I feel lucky.

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Ruthless

A few instances come to mind:
1. when I was 18 and Ken Shamrock was my idol I got a free 4 hr seminar at the gym I trained at in PA. I also got to go live submission grappling with him.....after rolling with him I knew I wanted to be a world champion and be one day where he was.

2. My reality Fighting 7 fight in AC, NJ. There was a lot of stress on me due to a lot of friends and people. there to support me. Guys I grew up with etc. The guy I was fighting was "supposed" to smash me according to a local instructor out that way. IT was also my first fight with Team MFS and Tim Sylvia was in my corner....I was never so relieved in my life when my opponent tapped.

3. My first night sparring in the MFS gym. I did 5-5 min rounds with Tim Sylvia and Tony Fryklund trying to take my head off. I left with a concussion and couldn't walk up and down stairs the next day. I haven't been the humbled in a long time. There was a point when I thought about quitting and Pat sat me down and talked to me about it...telling me I had the tools and if I went back to PA. he was going to come looking for me....meant a lot to me...he's an idol to me.

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Kaps

I haven't trained or competed in MMA, I do remember my freshman year of HS wrestling my cousin who got me into wrestling told me that if I pinned my opponent in the first period he'd buy me a new pair of wrestling shoes. In my first match of my first meet I scored a head and arm takedown on this kid and he almost passed out. After a couple of puffs from his inhaler we started again and I did the same, this time I got the pin. I got a pretty sweet pair of Nike Wrestling shoes out of it. That's the only thing that sticks out in my mind at the moment...

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HockeyFighter

tapping my instructor with a reverse triangle

VulgarTheClown

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Justinian

My most memorable fight is probably my fight in Japan. We went to Japan with a great group of Dutch fighters (team Remco Pardoel) to take on a Japanese team. Renzo Gracie was there as a special guest and we hung out with him in Tokyo. The fight ended by me knocking my opponent down and applying a neck crank. It was just great.

Training experience: I can not think of a memorable experience, but I can think of a memorable period (back in 1996/1997). I trained a lot with the guys who also went to Japan. We had a great group and everybody was so enthusiastic. In that period I trained everyday and most of the time twice a day.

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Rattlesnake840

Getting to train for over 3 hours with Royce Gracie. Hands down the most memorable training experience in my life.

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Angelco

Getting a 4 hour seminar from Shotokan world champion and 6th Dan master Sergio Ignea. (a couple of years ago)

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atomi50

Holding a pad to 95 kg guy, he was kicking and I accidentally lower the pad and BANG, I received a high kick to my head. Why is it memorable? Well, I wasn't KO-ed, not even stunned!

VulgarTheClown

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tihach

Sparring with a girl. It was my first week in savate and the coach put me with a very experienced girl. I couldn't fight with full strength cuz it would be gay to do so against a girl. She was obviously a better fighter so I just let her kick my ass and made it look like I'm a gentleman and I'm letting her beat me.

Also, when I started training kick-boxing a 60kg guy bruised my legs through a pad! He has lightning quick kicks. Another guy let me kick his bare leg full strength! I kicked him as hard as I could (I have decent low kicks) and he just smiled. I told him to F off !

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Creator

Sparing with a world champion in Thai box ..

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Lt.Kilgore

My first sparing and it was with Frane Radnic, i camed out from a gym after 4 months of training and bodybuilding weighing 87kg with 180cm of height. I was strong like a bull and after two months of training I decided to spar with Frane and he was 176cm and 73-75kg I thought I could do something. In the first round I did well cause of my strength but I was too stiff. In the second round all my energy depleted and he just played with me. I couldn't breathe and I was getting punched and punched, for me it was only about surviving until he said it was enough.

That taught me a lesson that strength and power mean sh*t if you don't connect that with some skills.

Ohh, for those who don't know who is Frane Radnic, he is Croatian Low Kick champion for about 3 years.
http://www.wakoweb.com/rankings/low.htm

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Thanks for your responses everyone. I really enjoyed your reminiscing and I hope you make many more good memories in the years to come. Special thank you to VulgarTheClown for his pictures. All I have to say is, YOU GO GUY! *woohoo*

Til next month, stay safe~
~lacey

*Please note. In case you PM me, I can't get back to you til the end of the summer. I'm off to Hawaii for three weeks and then have the opportunity to work under a marine biologist doing research for four weeks on the west coast.