Modified Philly Shell for MMA and Muay Thai with Cory Sandhagen 

I will always and forever appreciate high level mma fighters who do breakdowns and make channels like this. For a self taught mma fighter like me, this is gold. Ive been using the jab shift switch stance because of you. Or the lead hook into side step switch stance. This vid had more info I didnt know of. Like blocking round kicks with the "arm pit"

Cory is so good at explaining complex things in an easy way

You definitely talking about Jon Anik, he thought you hurt ur arm on round 3 while there’s 1.18 left during the fight.

Former Army Infantry combat veteran here. Appreciate you for these videos😂 Champ/ good sir my son loves them. he's in muay thai now has a light boxing background from what I could teach him. Trying to break this now from what I taught him. 😅 🙏

Watching this after Strickland’s win over Adesanya. He was really effective with a more normal Philly Shell 😮. Good to see how things that should not work, actually work!

Cory's vids have taught me more about striking than anybody

Thanks for breaking down boxing in mma. Don’t know if you wanna try it but an old school boxing trick to defend the uppercut is to catch it with the rear hand. When it comes you just place your rear hand in front of your chin like a catchers mit and catch the punch, to further mitigate force from the punch you can slightly roll your head with it. If you get good at this you can counter that uppercut when you catch it with the left hook or straight right hand( after you catch the uppercut)

Mark my word future champ. This guy is super slept on

And now we have a champ in his philly shell! Lets fucking go guys!

3:01 Shot at dom cruz lol

Great stuff Mr Sandman. Been a huge fan of you ever since your UFC debut, favorite fighter to watch ever since. If you are truly a nerd of masterful details and the art of mixing all these arts together and making it look beautiful and violent at the same time, there aint a single fighter better to geek out about. Been researching your fights, training footage and podcasts and whatever to try and pick your mind for valuable concepts for a long time. So all these youtube clips and instructional series that’s about to release is a blessing my man. Can’t wait to learn new stuff to share with my students and see what they make of it. Lots of love my man!

You can also counter that overhand with a straight right after you roll with with the punch.

really great to watch this after the strickland adesanya fight

Wonderful explanations man! Thank you

You can solve the high kick problem by using the Lean back, Thai style. The position is almost identical to the classic philly shell, your opponent gets to a disadvantageous position and you don't get hit at all.

Thanks so much cory im so fkn stoked your making videos I look up to your style perhaps more than anyone. Keep it up brother !

Thanks for the video, CORY

High level instruction, I love the specifics! Thank you!!

Nice tutorials Corey been looking for another long lanky guy just like myself to learn from! Going to be studying your videos to help with my upcoming fight. Thanks brother

How good do you have to know something to explain it so eloquently it's impressive. Thank you, your fan!

Informative content, thank you. Subscribed. You are an entertaining fighter and come across as a genuine guy. Good luck in your career

Thanks master this will help me a lot.

you have truly blown my mind brother that block so simple quick and effective thank you massive fan your my fav fighter most technical fighter in the ufc by far

Thank you very helpful!

Thx coach 😎🙌

I don't know how I haven't watched your instructional stuff before, Cory. Super chill, super informative for a 2-day-a-week Muay Thai guy who also spars on Fridays. You have a new fan in me, sir.

Ur the best Cory!!!

When you said, "dummy", you sounded like Cruz.

Thank you Cory 🙏 I was laughed at by one of my first coaches when asking about the Philly in Muay Thai class. I’ve always felt uncomfortable with a tradition guard in MT/MMA so I ended up developing a similar style always stuffing/jabbing/hand fighting at my opponent w my lead hand. Thanks again for validating my instinctive style and showing a much greater version

im a huge fan of ur content. definetly gonna drill these today!

Good stuff

Aye Cory I got my first Muay Thai fight Feb 24th and I wanna say your vids are helping me a lot great stuff man keep it up champ

All my homies love the Sandman 😤

Awesome from a boxing background I'm always thinking on how to apply this philly shell for mma, I use my elbows a lot to deflect and comeback as well with elbows.

sick sauce

In training the long guard makes me unstoppable - in the cage suddenly my arm weighs 500 KG. But its done well for me so far regardless! Nice video!

Great video! besides fighting in close range. Is there another situation where the long guard isnt smart to use?

Strickland shell

took me a few mins to find your channel. I had to specifically look up "cory sandhagen channel". good stuff though champ, keep up the good work in the cage and on the videos.

Hey bro this stuffs amazing just checked it out

Any thoughts on another modified philly shell in mma, specifically the cross guard that Yoel Romero does?

Well Adesanya need to take notes from you so he can beat strickland :D

The future champ is giving free game,, All Hail!!

Could you do a video on distance and how to keep the guy on the end of your punches

LETS GO RU-vid SANDHAGEN

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5:20 that’s an Aurora vato 1000%

Pro level. Pro tips . But understanable for non pros like me😂

aged well after ufc 291

Anybody know which commentator he’s talking about?

Hey Corey some people may tell you to take out your tangents like kung fu being a bit nerdy or the bad commentating on the chito fight but please never take them out they are awesome and make learning from the video as a whole far more entertaining

2:32 SPILL

Make videos about everything, deep thought, meditation, cognitive consciousness stay a beautiful soul

Paul "The Irish Dummy" Felder lol

Dustin Poirier has made the classic Philly Shell work quite well for him.

Soooo not a philly shell at all then... this is just a long guard. Kind of a weird comparison

is this even really called a philly shell anymore tho? ur not really shelled up, both hands r up

Really cool bro. They don't teach all of this my gym.

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