This type of sparring is far superior to hard sparring, you can do this for hours everyday with almost no threat of injury, giving you multiple times the amount of practice you would get otherwise.
@alinbjj Not really? You're being naive. The amount of hard sparring you can do without injury is very limited.... not once did I say don't do any hard sparring. I simply stated my opinion that light sparring is superior to hard sparring. Getting used to being hit is the last thing sparring should be used for. Even Ray Robinson advocated only light sparring for about 1-2 weeks before a fight and no more.
Full on hard sparring is for immature "fighters" with big ego's.
@alinbjj You can't take what I said and add something to it then say I was wrong because of your added bullshit. "if you spar like this... all the time" ... that's your problem if that's all YOU do. But again, I never said do only this. If you want to debate then don't add your personal stipulations and assumptions to what I say, otherwise you will just be arguing with yourself and not what I am actually stating.
What you are doing coincides with a delusional thought process.
@PlagueRages101 Yeah striking in general is easier when you are long but and so is jiu-jitsu but wrestling is 50/50. If you are long you can get the underhooks and your sprawl is deadly and you tire the other guy out more but if you're short you have more access to the other guy's legs for a low single and also you can sweep the other guy easier.
Its amazing how smooth and relaxed these guys are when sparring. Wish guys at my gym knew how to spar light like that. It seems list most fighters want to take your head off these days even when sparring. My Kru says great fighters have great control: its true.
@ElProfe1910 Agreed... I wish people would spar like this instead of using 100% of power.... like you said great fighters have great control. In my taekwondo class, we usually spar like this, but we usually use 40% of our power...
@ElProfe1910 What kind of gym are you at? The gyms where people are tense are usually the worse ones, people get hurt, forget their technique, try "beating" the other guys, etc. You're not supposed to "beat" anyone but yourself. You go to the gym to show yourself that you can do better. If you're thinking about how to "win" in a spar, my dear friend, you need to go to a better gym and meditate. Clear your mind before fighting, know what you want to work on, and HAVE FUN.
@ElProfe1910 Control is not having to say your "Sorry". Most fighters are head hunters and just want the KO's. They don't think about there training partners and only care for themselves. (Everyone one should remember hits to the body are x2 better.) Your Kru is absolutely right! "great fighters have great control" Keep up the good work and you wont be finding yourself on the ground in a match wondering how you got knocked out. Keep The Control Man! have a good one.
@ElProfe1910 The problem is, if you are one of those people who goes mental at your sparring partner trying to knock him out, even if you do knock him out, you have learnt exactly nothing from that sparring session (other than the fact that you're a douchebag.)
Thank you infintely & eternally for absolutely everything & anything, Anderson Silva! Hallelujah! I see the qualities of Kinesiological Movement & Dance in combination with his rhythm & flowing along with the movements of his partner!
@andyyang3 yeah feijao lost to hendo, a man Anderson destroyed in his prime. Lol funny how things work. Anderson was also in feijao's corner screaming instructional to feijao ^^
despite anderson silvasrecent cocky antics in the octagon. i dont think there is a human being alive today who could stand toe to toe with him he is a modern day bruce lee some of the shit he pulls in the octagon are truly breathtaking
people always beat each other up in the gym, you never see teachers really step in and stop it, theres one young guy at my gym whose always breaking peoples ribs, hope he breaks his legs, thick twat!
when you properly spar with someone you should not feel like you have to fight for your life, and you should NEVER get hurt.. sparring is SPOSE to be like 25%. dipshits on the gym here spar for their life lol
This is sparring when people are tring to beat the hell out of you your not trying to incorporate what you learnt your just fighting with what you know will keep them away
Great example of what productive sparring should be like. Really gives people a chance to work on what they learn, rather than getting banged up and only learning, "keep your hands up".
people probably go full out when they spare because A. they are idiots and think there tough or B. they are at a higher leve lthen you and expect a challenge. guys at my gym go at different speeds and power. the ones who are pro fighters hit way to hard so it forces you to go harder. helping them and also yourself. you guys jsut gotta deal wit hit. its fighting. now tennis or frisbee
The secret, my friends, is to handle the 100% douches by protecting yourselves at all times, workin on your technice and to waiting for the douche to get tired..
@dapintebajr totally do that. my defense is so good now the heavy swingers and hitters cant do much to me. they get tired and the moment their hands drop i givem a good one-two to make sure they know they suck. haha
@SimonLy90 that produced lyoto,jose aldo,the nog bros and dos santos not saying he is responsible for their talent but he could take your average fighter and probably transform them
Who cares what they're called? Great fighters fight in tights. GSP, A.Silva, BJ Penn, Shogun.. I can't remember but I bet Jose Aldo fights in tights. And this small dude in WEC 135 pound class.. Who just fought for the title and lost. He fights in tights! TIGHTS = GREATNESS!
I've heard of a gi. Most great fighters like to wear a "Gi". BJ Penn has the belt drawn on his tights, GSP always walks in in his Gi, Anderson Silva wore a Gi after his last submission victory. Although, it's very unpractical to fight with a Gi in real life.
By the way, Benavides is the guy I was thinking of..
@yrrahyrrah A Gi is more practical in real life if you live in a climate that requires you to wear a jacket or a sweater. It's not practical to walk around in shorts trunks all day unless you're at the beach all day.
@spm171 Well I misspoke a bit. With "in real life" I meant in a real fight. Meaning a MMA fight. Although, you're right - in countries where you wear long sleeved (sloppy) clothes, a "street fight" is more like a Gi-fight than a no-Gi fight.
But I doubt a guy like Jon Jones has any problems in a street fight anywhere in the world, against anybody, just because he hasn't trained with a Gi.
@yrrahyrrah A gi is very practical if you live in a climate that requires you to wear a jacket or a sweater. Not everyone walks around in a pair of swim trunks all day.
for those who may not think this kind of sparring is helpfull, the average pace of a fight is slower than this pace. Even though these guys are perhaps going 30 to 40 %, the pace will "push" their cardio.
This was the most enjoyable sparring video I've seen here on youtube. Technique was great, power and speed were just right. Both guys had respect for each other, just what you need when sparring.
good light sparring, the ideal is to work transitions in sparring and not power, how to go from one tecnic to another, and from time to time a 80-90 % sparring to get use to get hit but not all the time anyway
@Pmutley I just happened along to this video and read your comment. It was right on point. just like with grappling or chi sao (in wing chun), all fighting arts benifit from some kind of "sensitivity" training. I always tell people I coach that wneh they feel contact it means that the opponent is in a less than ideal postion to defend a counter. Sparring like this allows for quick reaction times that when perfected will stun and startle the opponent when done with full power. Good comment.
@genious4real funny thing you say that, i´m a wing chun instructor myself and i´ve been very successful on my aplications of this principle at my BJJ and Muay Thai trainning, for a good martial artists sensitivity and hand-eye coordenation must be a regular practice
he is strong (many of his opponents say that was the biggest suprise) he's fast (this is about a quarter speed) he has technique (don't even need to elaborate) and he has the ability to put anything together
Anderson high kicks with his torso straight up and his chin in the same spot, usually i see muay thai trainers and just general martial arts trainers teach their students to lean back? Was there a specific reason why he was taught or chooses this way?
@sugoroku alot of traditional muay thai fighters and shaolin fighters kick like that it all depends on ur flexibility and how flexible your joints are i can do it i was born on the year of the monkey so im naturally flexible plus im double jointed it great for martial arts
@sugoroku its not just flexibility its also because the lean back tends to give away a kick is coming. to keep ur opponent from seeing a move coming you dont wanna move in traditional ways. just like types of jabs in boxing. u look at the elbow and shoulder to determine a jab is coming. but some fighters can fire a jab without giving it away.
light sparring like this one is very important for having a quicker reaction , but my fucking dumbass teacher doesn't get it and doesn't let us do it coz hes ur typical suburban pussy! i wish i had a partner like Anderson Silva :(
@Rjpowell808 He took them to focus on hitting the upper body. He is more like Kyokushin with his evasion and down blocking coupled with his mixing of high kicks and low kicks.
When I'm going in, I'm usually going for light sparring to work on my technique. But a lot of times the retards come at me swinging like they're psychotic, punching their hardest, and actually trying to knock me out, and sometimes it forces me to go 100%.
I even explain to them that "I'm only looking to go like 25%. I'm just working on my technique." They still dont' listen.
only spar with the more experienced practiotioners they'll give you a great sparring session , stay close , let you block every strike and work on the counters , thats what sparring is , also i've recently discovered high speed sparring , beautifull you strike very fast but still use 25 percent power , so you have to stop and pull your strikes back , like shadow boxing but with a partner,exremely enjoyable,ofcourse you only can do it with some1 you really trust with it .
when I ask people to go 25% and they go full out I just pull guard and give 'em an arm triangle, I DIDN'T REALIZE THEY TAPPED XD
After Tyrone Booker tried that one and passed out in front of the entire gym no one said anything, but they knew to let me work on technique if I wanted to
I care about my sparring partners until they prove they don't care about me
@ShapeofaHockeyMask ya i hate that. same thing happens to me all the time. you usually gotta get one good power technique taht's fast just to warn them when they start hittin hard
@rampage42 I agree 100%!!! I have been training in contact karate for 35 years and I have always enjoyed sweeping my "partner" up in the air when he gets beside himself. getting hit in the chops is crushing, but picking yourself up off the ground can take a while to get over. lol
@ShapeofaHockeyMask i hate that shit. if they wanna fight u can arrange a little fight after the sparring or something,like sparring but fighting,like they like.but not in sparring..personally i dont like sparring like that.at all
@ShapeofaHockeyMask a word of advice from an "old head": DON'T GET INTO A SLUGGING MATCH WITH THEM. WILD PEOPLE CAN HURT YOU BY "MISTAKE" AND THAT WILL GIVE THEM BRAGGING RIGHTS. WHEN THAT HAPPENS GET INTO A CLINCH AND GET MAXIMUM LEVERAGE WITH AN UPPERCUT TO THE CHIN. THAT SHOULD CALM HIM (OR HER) DOWN.
@ShapeofaHockeyMask less you have technique and more you try to compensate that by hiiting harder, it's just the beginner reflex, but some time with guy who have the same technical level it's interessting to go at 50% or 60% if it's more you wont go often to training or in bad shape, thai fighter the best work like that and in fact it's less than 50% they hit so hard we are not human paos lol
@ShapeofaHockeyMask Yeh I know. I'd say if people can't take a light tap they try and get their own back and then it just escalates to 100 percent. At least people that know what they're doing don't go mental when they get hit once or twice.
@ShapeofaHockeyMask Exactly, you are my ideal sparring partner lol, there is a time and place to go all out, sparring class is not the time or place lol. Unless there is a mutual agreement to go hard, it should neve be done.
Not in the case of a rough sport, if you're going 100% in practice you will be banged up the next day so you won't even be able to practice 100% the next day even if you try. This is why you don't spare 100% too often, same goes for football and rugby practicing in general.
in sparring/training, shin guards are worn for the benefit of the opponent, not the person wearing them. when you kick someone's block it sucks with or without shin guards; no way around it. But you can take leg kicks with shin guards, but without, it's a completely different world of pain; trust me, even those 25% leg kicks hurt like a bitch–digging right into the muscle tissue, no fun, but a necessary evil..
anderson silva FODAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
onziwood 2 weeks ago
Great job! Silva the spider silva. Counter attack is insane
shog077 2 weeks ago
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this looks awsome
cudureffeckt 1 month ago
ANDERSON SILVA IS THE BOMB!!
strife3211 2 months ago
i think, they are showing technique for this set, they are not sparring for true
delparkeklaro 2 months ago
He reacts to everything!!!
cherryredblaze95 2 months ago 4
i think its a fix
rushsecond77 3 months ago
Lol this is what i call technique sparring where you work on your technique and not have to worry about getting hit very hard :P
Then in real training they hit a little harder
TheHallzySquad 3 months ago
Classy flower hands. beautiful
valgorlin 4 months ago
Damn Anderson is good. I would love to see him fight at a K1 event someday.
rsbdalycity 4 months ago
Yea I agree no one at my gym spars liek this its pretty much HAM all the time lol
longjohnw86 5 months ago
@jareddavis1983 is your older brother Japanese?
toolfan92 5 months ago
This type of sparring is far superior to hard sparring, you can do this for hours everyday with almost no threat of injury, giving you multiple times the amount of practice you would get otherwise.
ACLogikel 5 months ago
@ACLogikel not really, if you spar lightly like this, all the time, then you will not get used with hard hits, for example in a fight.
alinbjj 5 months ago
@alinbjj Not really? You're being naive. The amount of hard sparring you can do without injury is very limited.... not once did I say don't do any hard sparring. I simply stated my opinion that light sparring is superior to hard sparring. Getting used to being hit is the last thing sparring should be used for. Even Ray Robinson advocated only light sparring for about 1-2 weeks before a fight and no more.
Full on hard sparring is for immature "fighters" with big ego's.
ACLogikel 5 months ago
@alinbjj You can't take what I said and add something to it then say I was wrong because of your added bullshit. "if you spar like this... all the time" ... that's your problem if that's all YOU do. But again, I never said do only this. If you want to debate then don't add your personal stipulations and assumptions to what I say, otherwise you will just be arguing with yourself and not what I am actually stating.
What you are doing coincides with a delusional thought process.
ACLogikel 5 months ago
I love Muay Thai. I love training in it.
pappiah23 6 months ago
poetry in motion...
chineseporcupine 6 months ago
esse anderson silva.. UAHSDAUDSAU
ta melhorando com essas tecnicas estilo bruce lee ai
auehuea dando uns tapinha na mao
ZezinhoRebolation 6 months ago
1:12 kick in the groin by anderson silva?
1024joaquin 6 months ago
@jareddavis1983 lulwut? Silva would kill your older brother.
bfmyac 6 months ago
Did any1 else notice silva block fiejao 3 punch combo with only his right hand? F'n sik!
dethkl100 6 months ago
@jareddavis1983 And who is your older brother?
chuey1988 6 months ago
wow actual SPARRING!!!! instead of people trying to knock my head off because i look better than them
stickinmypants 6 months ago
Man, where i can buy "muay thai striking for MMA"?
UliMorse 6 months ago
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IMnotSAS 7 months ago 10
I wish I was built like anderson. Muy Thai seems a lot easier when you are built long and lean.
PlagueRages101 7 months ago
@PlagueRages101 Yeah striking in general is easier when you are long but and so is jiu-jitsu but wrestling is 50/50. If you are long you can get the underhooks and your sprawl is deadly and you tire the other guy out more but if you're short you have more access to the other guy's legs for a low single and also you can sweep the other guy easier.
DestroyerAlexandros 6 months ago
Its amazing how smooth and relaxed these guys are when sparring. Wish guys at my gym knew how to spar light like that. It seems list most fighters want to take your head off these days even when sparring. My Kru says great fighters have great control: its true.
ElProfe1910 7 months ago 40
@ElProfe1910 Agreed... I wish people would spar like this instead of using 100% of power.... like you said great fighters have great control. In my taekwondo class, we usually spar like this, but we usually use 40% of our power...
ChysonXCENSORED 7 months ago
@ElProfe1910 yeah, especially when the coach says relax and use 20% power and you do that and the guy tries to take your head off
ipwnorcs 7 months ago
@ElProfe1910 What kind of gym are you at? The gyms where people are tense are usually the worse ones, people get hurt, forget their technique, try "beating" the other guys, etc. You're not supposed to "beat" anyone but yourself. You go to the gym to show yourself that you can do better. If you're thinking about how to "win" in a spar, my dear friend, you need to go to a better gym and meditate. Clear your mind before fighting, know what you want to work on, and HAVE FUN.
Mattyboyrocks23 6 months ago
@ElProfe1910 word.
MIIIpower 5 months ago
@ElProfe1910 Control is not having to say your "Sorry". Most fighters are head hunters and just want the KO's. They don't think about there training partners and only care for themselves. (Everyone one should remember hits to the body are x2 better.) Your Kru is absolutely right! "great fighters have great control" Keep up the good work and you wont be finding yourself on the ground in a match wondering how you got knocked out. Keep The Control Man! have a good one.
Scrazy0wnz 4 months ago
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aaron4820 3 months ago
@ElProfe1910 The problem is, if you are one of those people who goes mental at your sparring partner trying to knock him out, even if you do knock him out, you have learnt exactly nothing from that sparring session (other than the fact that you're a douchebag.)
aaron4820 3 months ago
It's ridiculous how good that guy is. Look at those body combos. And this is almost no effort.
stillmattwest 8 months ago
1:16 it's like a mirror hahaha
theguybelowmefarted 8 months ago
why cant Anderson give us some sparring show with Lyoto Machida
jvrdlc 8 months ago
@jvrdlc They did. Just look for it on YouTube.
waterfordel 7 months ago
no wonder, they call him "the spider". anderson`s got like 6 limbs....and he`s so damn fast and accurrate!
omilio 8 months ago
@omilio haha you mean 8 limbs right? Spiders have eight..
Ringmeister86 5 months ago
1:20 Matrix
KoGymLondon 8 months ago
i like very much this style of sparring! i think the body learn much better when is relaxed
Intilo 9 months ago
@Intilo exactly, i preach sparring like this more than hardcore sparring. this helps you focus on technique
ThaBlackSoldier56 8 months ago
awsome shit, especially the body shots and stuff towards the end, his kicks are soo damn good, if only he got to throw them at will like in muay thai
neonblack88 9 months ago
Thank you infintely & eternally for absolutely everything & anything, Anderson Silva! Hallelujah! I see the qualities of Kinesiological Movement & Dance in combination with his rhythm & flowing along with the movements of his partner!
JHDIII1987 9 months ago
i want to see Silva vd. Henderson 2
adnanabbasi1992 9 months ago
beautiful you guys like i watch this to get relaxed
dstrbo13 10 months ago
anderson is the man :D
666hellraiser1 10 months ago
wow. so fluid. the skill demonstrated here is just so impressive.
Lars1540 10 months ago
Feijao lost to henderson, silva is a beast.
andyyang3 10 months ago
@andyyang3 yeah feijao lost to hendo, a man Anderson destroyed in his prime. Lol funny how things work. Anderson was also in feijao's corner screaming instructional to feijao ^^
ThaBlackSoldier56 10 months ago
I'd kick all their brazil asses
AlcoholicSemenStain 10 months ago
@AlcoholicSemenStain , won't happen.
andyyang3 10 months ago
@AlcoholicSemenStain chuck norris...are...are you?!
faber1codadilupo 10 months ago
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WOW, holy shit.
smokenfly514 10 months ago
it's so precise it looks like a kata
KoGymLondon 10 months ago
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Silva looks so relaxed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its like hes asleep LOL!
northdakota2170 11 months ago
Gifted as few
mencius82 11 months ago
This looks soo good that it looks almost choreographed.
JoeyWtf1 11 months ago
SILVA IS FUCKING AMAZING !!!
Kaito66666 11 months ago
thumbs up if you think feijao will beat hendo at strikeforce: columbus
adnanabbasi1992 11 months ago
Feijao would drop Anderson like chael did
muchohumpty 11 months ago
@muchohumpty yeah, then he'll get triangle choked
xenx619 11 months ago
This is how DragonBall Z would look like in real life.
phenomenom20 11 months ago
@phenomenom20 ACTUALLY watch Manny Pacquio doing shadow boxing to see DBZ in real life, I'm not even kidding :)
zhadow7 10 months ago
Anderson's parries are freakin cool.
motorolaflex 11 months ago
Face Punched at 0:23
IsHoly 11 months ago
punched in the face at @23 lool
IsHoly 11 months ago
Anderson Silva parece o Sagat nesse vídeo!
Anderson Silva looks like Sagat in this video!
joelciclone 11 months ago
despite anderson silvasrecent cocky antics in the octagon. i dont think there is a human being alive today who could stand toe to toe with him he is a modern day bruce lee some of the shit he pulls in the octagon are truly breathtaking
harrymail7 11 months ago
OMFG THIGH PUNCHES AT 1:15 :O
ACEBOY00 1 year ago
i would love to train with this whole camp. feel like a life changing experience
Morgan1Bear4Pride 1 year ago
the wall that behind them so white!
EExtraBoy 1 year ago
how not to spar
type muay thai sparring being violent
MapmanDex 1 year ago
@MapmanDex you sir...are an idiot
lvannata92 1 year ago
@lvannata92 why?
MapmanDex 1 year ago
how gay is andersons voice? :O
Harrehz 1 year ago
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LOL 30 that looked liked if that was a direct hit only could guess he was hurt or stunned...common Anderson Silva
alve1198 1 year ago
LOL 1:30 that looked liked if that was a direct hit only could guess he was hurt or stunned...common Anderson Silva
alve1198 1 year ago
people always beat each other up in the gym, you never see teachers really step in and stop it, theres one young guy at my gym whose always breaking peoples ribs, hope he breaks his legs, thick twat!
netmasterflex 1 year ago
LOL at anderson 1-2ing Rafael Feijao's knee at 1:12
dilster5 1 year ago 48
@dilster5 you mean 1:15, still that was very funny haha.
kappkids 10 months ago
when you properly spar with someone you should not feel like you have to fight for your life, and you should NEVER get hurt.. sparring is SPOSE to be like 25%. dipshits on the gym here spar for their life lol
loxspliff1 1 year ago
1:17 is awsome!
EleganteFH 1 year ago
This is sparring when people are tring to beat the hell out of you your not trying to incorporate what you learnt your just fighting with what you know will keep them away
MapmanDex 1 year ago
Great example of what productive sparring should be like. Really gives people a chance to work on what they learn, rather than getting banged up and only learning, "keep your hands up".
jadeezy21 1 year ago
i cant do any of that complex parring, and reaction timing like that. pretty cool vid.
iamcarpetpython 1 year ago
people probably go full out when they spare because A. they are idiots and think there tough or B. they are at a higher leve lthen you and expect a challenge. guys at my gym go at different speeds and power. the ones who are pro fighters hit way to hard so it forces you to go harder. helping them and also yourself. you guys jsut gotta deal wit hit. its fighting. now tennis or frisbee
tidus2323 1 year ago
Anderson is an absolute master of all fighting arts.
81dazzer 1 year ago
simply beautiful
DJSIMPLYP 1 year ago
The secret, my friends, is to handle the 100% douches by protecting yourselves at all times, workin on your technice and to waiting for the douche to get tired..
dapintebajr 1 year ago
@dapintebajr totally do that. my defense is so good now the heavy swingers and hitters cant do much to me. they get tired and the moment their hands drop i givem a good one-two to make sure they know they suck. haha
rampage42 1 year ago
Imagine how good you would be if you trained with Anderson
SimonLy90 1 year ago 70
@SimonLy90 that produced lyoto,jose aldo,the nog bros and dos santos not saying he is responsible for their talent but he could take your average fighter and probably transform them
mmalover1991 1 year ago
@SimonLy90 - as good as UFC champion Shogun Rua, or next UFC HW champ Dos Santos. That's how good you would be if you trained with Anderson Silva..
kagolko 1 year ago
@SimonLy90 That's why we Lyoto Machida, Junior Dos Santos and many new up and comers.
1029Itachi 10 months ago
@SimonLy90 imagine how good you would be if u trained with the guys that trained anderson
pyrojds 10 months ago
@SimonLy90 Feijiao still sucks pretty hard considering the amazing training partners he has =S
jitteryjoe 9 months ago
@SimonLy90 Why is that?
phorse 9 months ago
@SimonLy90 imagine how horrible he would be if he trained with you
kappkids 8 months ago
@SimonLy90 no comment !
mrSalimomo 6 months ago
looks like fun..... wish i could train with anderson silva
scanner420 1 year ago
wow.. the amount of technique in that video is unbelievable
pyrojds 1 year ago
1:16 to 1:19 is beautiful
yagerfire 1 year ago
He certainly shouldn't fight in floppy shorts! All great fighters fight in tights!
yrrahyrrah 1 year ago
@yrrahyrrah its muay thai shorts..
XxPhillipXxx 1 year ago
@XxPhillipXxx
Who cares what they're called? Great fighters fight in tights. GSP, A.Silva, BJ Penn, Shogun.. I can't remember but I bet Jose Aldo fights in tights. And this small dude in WEC 135 pound class.. Who just fought for the title and lost. He fights in tights! TIGHTS = GREATNESS!
yrrahyrrah 1 year ago
@yrrahyrrah prolly a 10 yr ol who doesnt fight.. heard of a gi? most martial art practitioners of any discipline use those...
cheesypuff800 1 year ago
@cheesypuff800
I've heard of a gi. Most great fighters like to wear a "Gi". BJ Penn has the belt drawn on his tights, GSP always walks in in his Gi, Anderson Silva wore a Gi after his last submission victory. Although, it's very unpractical to fight with a Gi in real life.
By the way, Benavides is the guy I was thinking of..
yrrahyrrah 1 year ago
@yrrahyrrah A Gi is more practical in real life if you live in a climate that requires you to wear a jacket or a sweater. It's not practical to walk around in shorts trunks all day unless you're at the beach all day.
spm171 11 months ago
@spm171 Well I misspoke a bit. With "in real life" I meant in a real fight. Meaning a MMA fight. Although, you're right - in countries where you wear long sleeved (sloppy) clothes, a "street fight" is more like a Gi-fight than a no-Gi fight.
But I doubt a guy like Jon Jones has any problems in a street fight anywhere in the world, against anybody, just because he hasn't trained with a Gi.
yrrahyrrah 11 months ago
@yrrahyrrah A gi is very practical if you live in a climate that requires you to wear a jacket or a sweater. Not everyone walks around in a pair of swim trunks all day.
spm171 11 months ago
That is sparring people in the gym here are sparring for their life
Thesenseoftouchc 1 year ago
He makes it look so smooth.
ninjaboyjeff 1 year ago
for those who may not think this kind of sparring is helpfull, the average pace of a fight is slower than this pace. Even though these guys are perhaps going 30 to 40 %, the pace will "push" their cardio.
genious4real 1 year ago
This was the most enjoyable sparring video I've seen here on youtube. Technique was great, power and speed were just right. Both guys had respect for each other, just what you need when sparring.
SuperiorNizzle 1 year ago
good light sparring, the ideal is to work transitions in sparring and not power, how to go from one tecnic to another, and from time to time a 80-90 % sparring to get use to get hit but not all the time anyway
Pmutley 1 year ago
@Pmutley I just happened along to this video and read your comment. It was right on point. just like with grappling or chi sao (in wing chun), all fighting arts benifit from some kind of "sensitivity" training. I always tell people I coach that wneh they feel contact it means that the opponent is in a less than ideal postion to defend a counter. Sparring like this allows for quick reaction times that when perfected will stun and startle the opponent when done with full power. Good comment.
genious4real 1 year ago
@genious4real funny thing you say that, i´m a wing chun instructor myself and i´ve been very successful on my aplications of this principle at my BJJ and Muay Thai trainning, for a good martial artists sensitivity and hand-eye coordenation must be a regular practice
Pmutley 1 year ago
@Pmutley great minds think alike!!!!
genious4real 1 year ago
look at his technique
he is strong (many of his opponents say that was the biggest suprise) he's fast (this is about a quarter speed) he has technique (don't even need to elaborate) and he has the ability to put anything together
AMAZING STRIKER
mmaninjitsu 1 year ago
wow thats some fucking reflexes anderson have : )
meszy88 1 year ago
SILVA VS. BELFORT AH SHIT!
patrickwithiforce 1 year ago
damn anderson is so smooth and fluid with his movements
cricka09 1 year ago
feijao the strikeforc lhw champion, anderson silva ufc middle weight champion, renaldo jacare souza strikeforce middle weight champion, jose aldo wec feather weight cahmpion, lyoto machida former ufc lhw champ, junior dos santos possible ufc hw champ, these guys role DEEP!
lol little matrix move with the hands by silva at 1:20
jjohnson218 1 year ago
Is this gentle sparring or a set routine?
Ruthairat 1 year ago
@Ruthairat gentle sparring
neonblack88 1 year ago
Watching Silva at work is like poetry. He is so natural and fluid, it's disgusting.
MyNutsAreCold 1 year ago
Man i love to watch muay thai it's a awsome disicpline
tikraw 1 year ago
damn even when its half speed and just sparring his stand up is still so beautiful!!!
xTHUGLIFEx713 1 year ago
Anderson high kicks with his torso straight up and his chin in the same spot, usually i see muay thai trainers and just general martial arts trainers teach their students to lean back? Was there a specific reason why he was taught or chooses this way?
sugoroku 1 year ago
@sugoroku alot of traditional muay thai fighters and shaolin fighters kick like that it all depends on ur flexibility and how flexible your joints are i can do it i was born on the year of the monkey so im naturally flexible plus im double jointed it great for martial arts
Sk8B0ardB0I 1 year ago
@sugoroku its not just flexibility its also because the lean back tends to give away a kick is coming. to keep ur opponent from seeing a move coming you dont wanna move in traditional ways. just like types of jabs in boxing. u look at the elbow and shoulder to determine a jab is coming. but some fighters can fire a jab without giving it away.
rampage42 1 year ago
wish i at least had the chance to spar him :P
rampage42 1 year ago
gotta give a big props on Anderson he fight on UFC 117 with a broken rib and still won the fight
mitsubishidiamante 1 year ago
anderson silva is my hero.
rampage42 1 year ago
That was beautiful =D
nelcrow213 1 year ago
can anyone tell me wat the combination silva uses at around a minute is? I cant pick it all up
tobaccoPSA 1 year ago
@tobaccoPSA 3 body shots and a head kick
XxPhillipXxx 1 year ago
this dudes technique is fuckin unreal
XxPhillipXxx 1 year ago
silva trained this guy and another guy who both won belts last night in strickforce
achillesninja 1 year ago
sparring with someone at that level will get you stronger real quick
toussaintprince 1 year ago
haha he blocked basically all his shit
mma4life100 1 year ago
light sparring like this one is very important for having a quicker reaction , but my fucking dumbass teacher doesn't get it and doesn't let us do it coz hes ur typical suburban pussy! i wish i had a partner like Anderson Silva :(
samanbandana 1 year ago
LOL Anderson has the voice of Michael Jackson!
santafuria2 1 year ago
Anderson have skinny legs !
zeezoomzoom 1 year ago 2
He is such a great fighter.
UFC881 1 year ago
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oh THATS why no one beats him I SEEEEEEEEEE
restlys 1 year ago
the black dude needs to put his hip more into his kicks.
Liamdonoghueownsyou 1 year ago
@Liamdonoghueownsyou hahahah wow u just said that to one of the best fighters from his weigh class omfg ur a moron
555EnterNameHere666 1 year ago
@Liamdonoghueownsyou its jus sparrin....i dont think he would dig in to it
rjgears 1 year ago
Anderson has a very evasive boxing type style of Muay Thai, i notice he didn't check one lowkick.
Rjpowell808 1 year ago
@Rjpowell808 He took them to focus on hitting the upper body. He is more like Kyokushin with his evasion and down blocking coupled with his mixing of high kicks and low kicks.
wiggalama 1 year ago
@wiggalama lol anderson isnt a kyokushin guy he is a thai boxer/western boxer
Ghostace4 1 year ago
People that I spar with kind of piss me off.
When I'm going in, I'm usually going for light sparring to work on my technique. But a lot of times the retards come at me swinging like they're psychotic, punching their hardest, and actually trying to knock me out, and sometimes it forces me to go 100%.
I even explain to them that "I'm only looking to go like 25%. I'm just working on my technique." They still dont' listen.
ShapeofaHockeyMask 1 year ago 61
@ShapeofaHockeyMask
only spar with the more experienced practiotioners they'll give you a great sparring session , stay close , let you block every strike and work on the counters , thats what sparring is , also i've recently discovered high speed sparring , beautifull you strike very fast but still use 25 percent power , so you have to stop and pull your strikes back , like shadow boxing but with a partner,exremely enjoyable,ofcourse you only can do it with some1 you really trust with it .
ahmednabil 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask agree
when I ask people to go 25% and they go full out I just pull guard and give 'em an arm triangle, I DIDN'T REALIZE THEY TAPPED XD
After Tyrone Booker tried that one and passed out in front of the entire gym no one said anything, but they knew to let me work on technique if I wanted to
I care about my sparring partners until they prove they don't care about me
mmaninjitsu 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask ya i hate that. same thing happens to me all the time. you usually gotta get one good power technique taht's fast just to warn them when they start hittin hard
rampage42 1 year ago
@rampage42 I agree 100%!!! I have been training in contact karate for 35 years and I have always enjoyed sweeping my "partner" up in the air when he gets beside himself. getting hit in the chops is crushing, but picking yourself up off the ground can take a while to get over. lol
genious4real 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask i hate that shit. if they wanna fight u can arrange a little fight after the sparring or something,like sparring but fighting,like they like.but not in sparring..personally i dont like sparring like that.at all
RHurricanez 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask a word of advice from an "old head": DON'T GET INTO A SLUGGING MATCH WITH THEM. WILD PEOPLE CAN HURT YOU BY "MISTAKE" AND THAT WILL GIVE THEM BRAGGING RIGHTS. WHEN THAT HAPPENS GET INTO A CLINCH AND GET MAXIMUM LEVERAGE WITH AN UPPERCUT TO THE CHIN. THAT SHOULD CALM HIM (OR HER) DOWN.
genious4real 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask less you have technique and more you try to compensate that by hiiting harder, it's just the beginner reflex, but some time with guy who have the same technical level it's interessting to go at 50% or 60% if it's more you wont go often to training or in bad shape, thai fighter the best work like that and in fact it's less than 50% they hit so hard we are not human paos lol
julienvervaecke 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask You should go to a different gym where they dont do that! You don't learn anything if you go in just swinging!
Fallenskate069 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask you know whatsup man!
jamonco1 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask Yeh I know. I'd say if people can't take a light tap they try and get their own back and then it just escalates to 100 percent. At least people that know what they're doing don't go mental when they get hit once or twice.
norsw 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask it happens the same to me, I think like 90% of the people are like that
JackHammer360 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask Exactly, you are my ideal sparring partner lol, there is a time and place to go all out, sparring class is not the time or place lol. Unless there is a mutual agreement to go hard, it should neve be done.
bfmyac 1 year ago 2
@ShapeofaHockeyMask
Most people who enjoy fighting or practicing boxing/mma are usually huge meat heads. It is super annoying when people do that.
Ek0 1 year ago
@ShapeofaHockeyMask if u dont put 100 percent into things on what your doing, then you will never 100 percent result.......
sharinganWS 1 year ago
@sharinganWS
Not in the case of a rough sport, if you're going 100% in practice you will be banged up the next day so you won't even be able to practice 100% the next day even if you try. This is why you don't spare 100% too often, same goes for football and rugby practicing in general.
ballsoffury4 1 year ago 2
@ShapeofaHockeyMask if you're sick dont get into competition, just practice
Xytos 1 year ago
i'm no expert on thai boxing but it looked to me like silva outclassed this guy.
davidducker 1 year ago
smooth
roycesboy 1 year ago
that was friggn awesome
heckald 1 year ago
Anderson doesn't even have to wear shin guards, Sick guy! :D
Scouserrrr08 1 year ago
@Scouserrrr08
in sparring/training, shin guards are worn for the benefit of the opponent, not the person wearing them. when you kick someone's block it sucks with or without shin guards; no way around it. But you can take leg kicks with shin guards, but without, it's a completely different world of pain; trust me, even those 25% leg kicks hurt like a bitch–digging right into the muscle tissue, no fun, but a necessary evil..
buildingm 1 year ago
crazy one hand block at 1:20
hugolou 1 year ago