Capoeira, the martial art that Sensei Silva holds a yellow belt in is not unlike Kali-Eskrima in the Philipines. It, combined with his Black Belt level of skill and knowledge in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Tae Kwon Do with a heathy seasoning of Thai elbows and knees make Sensei Silva a very deadly, well rounded and versitile fighter.
impeccable , probably not many people train this, and as you can see he not only dodges but adjust for counter, just the way he fights, devastating counters.
Just because someone lost a fight (because he got a little too cocky) does not mean that the techniques demonstrated here are not effective and useful.
"No [rematch]. Chris is the champion now. All the people tonight need to respect Chris, Chris is the best. That's it, I've finished my working. I no fight more for the belt. I change my life now because I worked hard for a long time. I've had the belt for a long time. I'm tired. I'll relax now and go back to my family." -Anderson Silva That doesn't sound like the words of a cocky man. He fights like a champion, trains like a champion, and even more rarely, loses like a champion.
Anderson Silva is just on another level as opposed to many other fighters. He is True Martial Arts and understands the concepts good..he just trains differently from the rest. Best of luck to him he is a great fighter and champion.
Amazing Anderson Silvia I love your style I don't care what people say i don't care if you lost your ufc middleweight title I love your fighting style its amazing when you bob and weave then BAM one punch knockout :)
I think the real thing to get this is not the drill, but the fact that as long as you move your head, it doesn't matter where you move it. Silva's not trying to move his head in a specific direction each time, he's just moving.
Exactly. Silva is great. My comment was about that there is more available strikes in thai fighting, mma, kickboxing than boxing and that means there are less defensive options with more available strikes.
I see a lot of people here are saying his partner is not aiming at his head or throwing any hard punches. It's not about that. It's about getting the technique done and getting used to the movements. Even in Krav Maga when we train our reflexes, we train very slow compared to an actual strike but when an actual strike comes we are lightning quick .
im a boxer and i train with mma guys all the time. boxing is VERY effective in mma, what does it look like hes doing in the video above. yes you can get taken down or kicked, but like the guy said above just watch out for kicks and takedowns. the only time it doesnt help is on the ground. you act like someone can just walk up to a boxer and throw them down, that shit isnt going to happen.if it wasnt for boxing skills silva would suck,just because someone boxes doesnt mean thats all they can do
Evading strikes is harder in MMA because it is not just hands. Boxers do not have to worry about kicks, elbows, takedowns, knees, backfists, etc. Evading is easy in boxing, hard in mma.
@mr0scary That guy with the "5 inch reach" you refer to is Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante, former Strikeforce LHW champion and still in the top 20. He was going to be a veterinarian until convinced otherwise by the Nogueira brothers. Similarly, Anderson Silva was going to operate a car wash until Nog encouraged him to pursue MMA. Amazing what these guys ultimately accomplished instead of going with the alternatives that most of us take, isn't it?
if Anderson Silva is poopy, than ask him to fight. Than, post it up on youtube and see the kind of feedback you get out of it. If people leave comments like "great job on beating Anderson Silvas butt!", than, by all means, call him whatever it is you want to call him. But until than, stop hating, because Anderson Silva may not be MY FAVORITE fighter, be he sure is a good one.
omg the guy won. he showed champion spirt to still have the will to win even in the last few moments when he knew he was loosing no calls Rocky Lucky!!!!
@TheTikeMyson and Rich Franklin, and Demian Maia, and Vitor Belfort... Hell, I haven't lost to Anderson SIlva and I'm still trying to learn this... Then go and practice for 10 years to be able to do this in slow motion.
@NullyCS I'm pretty late to reply to this, but this is actually what Machida does VERY successfully. It's about timing and baiting. The quick back jump and you can see your opponent think/start to chase, you're already jumping right back towards him connecting fist to chin :D
4. That submission may have been a lot of things but lucky was not one of them. He waited all fight long for that triangle because he knew that Chael wasn't smart enough to evade it. 5. In this universe, in the UFC, when you tap, you lose. Period. Coincidentally, you may think that punching someone in the face is more impressive, but the reality is, if Silva holds the triangle for about 60 more seconds, Chael ends up the Morgue. 6. Finally, Chael LOST. Twice. He was FINISHED. Twice.
haha and I think I went off on another tangent. Basically, I was just saying in the simplest sense that the jump back>sprint forward is applying the theory Machida is demonstrating. Leaning back is the more boxer style but can still goad an opponent forward, setting him up. Then again Machida leans way back already to keep a good space to evade. ....Man, I can't tell if I'm able to stay on topic anymore lol. Grats BamBam! Nully, I agree with you :D
Sick people always saying that Chael Sonnen should of beat Silva?? If it was the other way round and sonnen came back and won..all you Trolls would be like "Chael is the best" But if the No.1 Pound for Pound fighter in the world does it its luck?? The truth is Sonnen had the best fight of his life Silva had a bad night AND still walked away with the title by ending the fight with a choke! Your all probs just hating on Silva cause he isnt american...
the movements are a lot harder than they look but practice makes perfect as we have seen in his fight against forrest. he made forrest look silly with those same movements
@dsettleascii no you can't learn this technique unless you have someone throwing punches at you it teaches you how to move your head in different directions and build your reflexes for reading peoples body movement the only way to learn it is with another person
Because in boxing no one can take you down or kick you in the legs so you can set your feet and focus entirely on your upper body evasion and counter striking. That doesn't work in MMA...so this kind of dodging is more rare, more difficult and thus even more impressive.
@rampage42 And keep in mind Randy is used to throwing big men around unlike Georges St-Pierre who usually is the bigger and stronger in his division(or always).
@rampage42 I was not trying to make GSP look weak in any way, I love GSP. And I see what you are saying. Still you can't compare GSP to Couture. Remember Couture could not have made middelweight without completely draining himself. cruiser weight from 205-230 pounds is Coutures Natural division when he doesnt cut. And GSP is a natural middle weight and he is about 5'10 it would be more like six divisions apart from him and Lesnar, it would be completely different for him to fight at heavyweigth.
people don't see the little things he's doing to make it so effective. your core and legs gotta be on point too. its almost like he's dancing and capoiera. be water
there wasn't a scratch on chael after the first fight. i don't know which fight you were watching, but chael knocked anderson down 3 times and anderson got a lucky submission. end of story.
@gregory57481 Maybe I misinterpreted the question, but I understood it as footwork, as you stated, and my reply was completely intended be about JUST that. Not about head movement at all. Maybe I didn't convey my response as accurately as I could have. So Machida's particular delivery of this footwork is more karate based and leaves him open. The boxing method includes bobs and weaves and shoulder rolls, right? Both have their pros and cons, both work. It's all still a matter of timing/bating.
@felipem18 I know, I dont need a lecture on MMA bro. A guy said that Dana and Rogan stated thatboxing techniques wouldnt work in MMA, and I told him that what they said was that you cant stand on your leg the same way, because of the kicks and takedowns.
Yeah I was just thinking the same thing. If people wanted to incorperate this drill into their training, I would reccomend doing it with bigger gloves, and having the partner aim at your head. That way you still get to practice dodging but its not so bad if u get hit
@thecrazyoftheinsane im not a crazy silva fan lol my fav fighter is JDS.. but i was just giving credit where credit is due? dunno why so many people hate on him.. his a good fighter is he not?
@dsettleascii I'd say you could use that to practice some, yeah, but you really need a partner to actually apply the technique. If you just want to practice rolls, hang a taut rope across your training space, and walk down the length of it (using correct footwork) bobbing back and forth underneath it as you go. You can also throw punches to practice striking out of your bob and weave, which actually gives you a lot more power by loading up your hip rotation.
@gregory57481 Yeah, you're right about Machida. A lot of Karate is based on point fighting and they will give the opponent points if you don't block a punch that's close to your head.
@chatanwarrior You gotta start somewhere. Your trainer can crank the intensity later on. At the beginning you gotta start slow to get the coordination and balance.
I know everyone will bring up wat Silva did to Forrest, cause hands down it was the worst and most embarrassing one but he didn't just do it to Forrest, he also did it to Bonnar, Franklin, Sonnen (2nd fight), Leites, Vitor.
@bmx7596 I get that he's not training full out. I understand that it's slowed down. None of that is the issue. The only thing that was pointed out was the fact that his partner is not actually aiming the shots at his head. No one here is doubting Anderson Silva's evasiveness, dude. The guy only said that his partner was deliberately missing Silva's head, and if you watch the video you can see that that is true. The student will still get the point, of course. You seem a little over-sensitive.
@TylerDurdenK7 while that's true, do remember that when randy couture fought him he was only at 220lb against the big lesnar at probably about 280. that's like 3 weight classes of difference and couture did good in teh first round. actually kept brock against the cage and what not. so to say that gsp who is around 185 walking around. could easily BULK up to 220 and i think he oculd do something against lesnar. probably wouldnt win but he could still do good. he wouldnt be a ragdoll.
yeah of course he was being way way too cocky not just a little and i honestly think he could of won that fight or at least put up a fight in the first place if he wasn't so cocky but you also have to remember the many fights he did this stuff and won easily
Actually, if you watch a fight live and then go watch it on TV you'll notice it looks slower on T.V. That coupled with the fact that its a drill is why its so slow.
@Daski69 In evading punches, you get a better chance to counter attack and your arms won't be injured due to blocking. You block too many punches,your arms get hurt thus reducing your punching power. Take it from me, getting punched in the arm sux.
@iAMcooooooool good defense (and by that I mean slipping ducking weaving pull back and footwork in close quarters) is a lost art (and I don't mean that turn away while jabbing mess the klitschkos use either)
Now, I could be wrong, I'm not but the possibility is always there. I'm pretty certain that even when he is doing this training his partner STILL is not going for a real hit. The purpose is to continuously move and get down the footwork to be able to dodge strikes. He will dodge strikes whether they are AT his face or NEAR his face. He is just saying move, Move, MOVE! He probably does it exactly like this even when not instructing.
@TylerDurdenK7 yup, i'm not disagreeing saying that gsp wouldnt be good at heavyweight i'm just saying you cant say lesnar would toss him around like a ragdoll. no matter the size you cant underestimate. wasnt it at that ufc 1 that the sumo dude got OWNED by the smaller man? and multiple other occasions as well. cause i walk around at about 140-145 and i took on 300 pound dude in wrestling and though he eventually won. i held my own for roughly 10 minutes. GSP could do the same, probably more
@hahafuto In MMA he is the best striker yes in my opinion. Who else? Bj Penn? Fedor Emelianenko? Allistar Overeem? Nah.. The only one's who can rival Silva in striking is Shogun and maybe Machida.
