Conor's shoulders. Thanks Mario Sperry !

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Anyone thst paid attention to Mario Sperry' s VHS instructional tapes knows that Conor should thank the Zen Machine Mario Sperry.

We have been practicing those shoulders since the mid 90s thanks to Mario passing them along

Many old school boxers have used them when needed as well

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first thing i though of ... if he adds foot stomps he will be unstoppable.

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crazydave - first thing i though of ... if he adds foot stomps he will be unstoppable.

Welcome

Glad others were tuned in.

At least we know he is not throwing those kind of well you know punches

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this is pretty old dirty boxing

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"faggot shoulders"

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Hespect to anyone who hemembers how deep Spehhy dug into Maurilo's shorts in those videos.

Handfuls...

Randfuls

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I swear I was thinking about Sperry vale tudo videos and even mentioned to my buddy that the shoulders reminded me of an old school BJJ guy. 

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abiwankinobi - 

I swear I was thinking about Sperry vale tudo videos and even mentioned to my buddy that the shoulders reminded me of an old school BJJ guy. 

Watammagonnadonow?

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hubris - this is pretty old dirty boxing

Yes

Believe it or not I had some dudes from Mexico show me this as a " dirty trick " used in soccer Many years ago

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having said that, shoulder strikes from mount is all Mario Sperry :)

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I learned bjj on those tapes.  Still 75 percent.  Still use the posture in guard and alternate hands to throat and keeping cenrer line. 

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Shoulder strikes were shown in Jeet Kune Do books in the 1980's:

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williepep - Anyone thst paid attention to Mario Sperry' s VHS instructional tapes knows that Conor should thank the Zen Machine Mario Sperry.

We have been practicing those shoulders since the mid 90s thanks to Mario passing them along

Many old school boxers have used them when needed as well

Bing! :-)

I've been teaching it since Josh Barnett used in that SuperBrawl tournament in the 90s (Sperry tapes were after). But I taught it wrong - for impact pop point of shoulder forward. To set up a punch, use hips like Conor did. I will be explaining my error in Wednesdays MMA class.

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I know Rogan and co mentioned the shoulder strikes over and over, but I saw one knee land flush on Cowboy's nose just after those shoulder strikes.