Fighter Conditioning at the Cave

March 26, 2013

Guest post by my friend, Coach Frank DiMeo!

Ever since my early days of martial arts training I have always looked for ways to become more effective.

Much of the best information I gathered over the years came at a painful, and often humbling, price.

No matter what type of fighter you are, being stronger and faster is essential. Being able to “go the distance” is also a must as is developing greater stopping power in your strikes and kicks.

Being able to transition quickly from a static position to an explosive movement is a vital asset.

Here’s a few videos of how we go about developing these qualities in our athletes.

This video is a few years old and shows Joy Byxbee aka southpaw fighter training at my gym:

Much has changed in our gym since then, but the training principles are the same.

I want to make sure that our athletes can move fast and last long and handle heavy loads when they need to.

Think about this, do you want to simply hit your target or do you want to make every shot do some damage?

If you only had a 30 round magazine of ammo for your weapon left, how many shots would you waste?

Got the point?

Don’t waste any!

If you’re in a ground fight and you cannot control your opponent, he will control you. Imagine what happens when it’s for real, like life or death.

I am a believer in skill and technique practice, but not at the expense of your strength and conditioning.

What if your opponent looks like my friend, Dru Patrick (on the right)?

What do you think you’ll stop him with?

Fortunately, Dru is a pretty laid back guy, but think about having to take out a guy like this.

Here’s one more point in closing, what do you think prison inmates work on to help them survive day to day?

Train like your life depends on it; it might one day.

Contact Information:

Frank DiMeo

http://cavestrong.com

undergroundsarasota@gmail.com

Jon

Jon Haas, "The Warrior Coach" has been training in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu for more than 25 years and is currently ranked as a Kudan (9th degree black belt) under Jack Hoban Shihan. He has also trained in Okinawan Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Russian Systema, BJJ, Krav Maga, as well as Internal Martial Arts of Yiquan and Aiki.He is a certified Underground Strength Coach-Level 2, a certified Personal Trainer as well as founder of Warrior Fitness Training Systems. In 2008, Jon wrote the book, Warrior Fitness: Conditioning for Martial Arts, and since then has created numerous other online training and coaching programs helping people around the world become the strongest, most capable versions of themselves!