Diaz brothers - defending leg kicks
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Marvin Vettori: throwing any strike that isn’t a jab or a cross.
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Head movement. Especially but not limited to after throwing their offence. They just stand there and admire their work in position to be counterd right back.
No idea how to cut the cage off. If one guy circles they’ll just circle with them as opposed to if a guy is circling to his their right , they should be stepping left to keep them squared up . Add to that the concept of throwing strikes on the side they’re trying to circle to to cut off their exit to to give them an exit. Straight into a intended strike.
Eg. Throwing left hooks, right cross so they move to their left. Straight into a right head kick.
Both of those examples go for at least 99%of the roster. That’s no exaggeration. If they do have any kind of understanding of these things they certainly don’t use them as much as they should.
Vitorii was actually doing this ( a little bit) with the footwork in his fight with izzy. He just didn’t add the striking part with the cage cutting.
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And of course they need to be working on their side check kick way more.
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If Struve had a jab…
Carlos Condit with actual TDD
Stop blocking high kicks with one wrist - everyone
Anyone who fights usman and has no counter for the jab
If Koscheck worked harder on his stand up he would of been champ.
I agree. They are so awesome, with a mediocre check they would be so much better, but the keep fighting with the wide stance and eating full power kicks
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It’s hard to learn new things that are against your natural ability. On top of that maintain aspects of your MMA game.
I think Wiedman did it the best. His first fight with Ando he wasn’t checking any leg kicks. He learned it for there rematch and checked it. Leading to a win
Especially when you use weak ass excuses like that to justify their making a conscious decision not to put in the effort to strengthen a glaring weakness.
Weidman also won the first fight though and going into the first fight didn’t have a long and storied career of getting his legs kicked to shit. If you have holes in your game you try and improve those areas. I still can’t get past your natural ability comment/excuse. Lol
Gaethje… he seemed like a white belt on the ground.
The thing about leg kicks is that they can be countered into a takedown like GSP used to do. Vettori is like a high level jack of all trades and if he was better at grappling, he could have converted the back take into a choke.
Anyway, it seems like people don’t throw the double jab. It helps close the distance and to blind the person from seeing you throw the power hand, or kick, or shot for a takedown.
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Its worse than just neglect training…what about neglecting whole parts of MMA during the fight?
Nate Diaz can grapple, but NEVER intends to grapple during all his fights!
Or Maia or Askren, NEVER want to learn striking
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There was a time when Maia fell in love with his striking. Thankfully he got away from that.
He shouldv been in love with training wrestling
Have you ever rolled with an elite grappler?
Gaethje’s grappling doesn’t even seem “professional” level. I understand the litmus test is Khabib, but Dustin and Edson both put up good groundwork. Gaethje looked absolutely clueless. We all knew he was going to lose on the ground, but he shouldn’t have looked like a white belt.
Edson Barboza, as lauded as his kicks are, he never developed a straight-kicking game with teeps, front kicks, and side kicks. It’s like a striker who only throws hooks and uppercuts, but doesn’t use jabs or crosses.
Alex Gustaffson, there is absolutely no reason why a guy of his height and skills doesn’t have a clinch-game. He should be elbowing and kneeing everyone into “bolivia”. It also can make him look more aggressive to the judges rather than having to run away and retreat in order to create distance for his striking in every exchange.
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This but to elaborate further, moving your head off center properly.