| MMA, commonly called Ultimate Fighting, has evolved | | | | advantage, and finish the match. |
| through various stages. Initially, Royce Gracie inspired | | | | Wrestlers who wish to excel in MMA need to stop |
| an explosion where all fighters absorbed as much Jiu | | | | thinking like wrestlers, and start thinking like fighters. It |
| Jitsu as they possibly could. | | | | will be a challenge for those that have spent years |
| This move to ground fighting made champion wrestlers | | | | honing skills to championship levels; instinct takes over. |
| confident that they could excel in MMA. Wrestlers like | | | | But, the same strong mind that makes one a champion |
| Kevin Jackson proved the theory correct. He was | | | | can adapt and make some modifications that can |
| very effective during the early 1990's. | | | | transform the champion wrestler into the most |
| Wrestling tactics will allow a fighter to control his | | | | devastating MMA competitor. |
| opponent, however; they need to be modified to be | | | | A wrestler with decent skills can nullify the skills of a |
| truly effective in MMA where the desired result is to | | | | world champion boxer or martial artist with one simple |
| finish the opponent by knockout or submission. | | | | take down. Once on the ground the entire arsenal of a |
| Pure wrestlers have failed to succeed in MMA on a | | | | stand up fighter is depleted and the expert is relegated |
| grand scale due to the ingrained training that is drilled | | | | to an ordinary fighter with no training. Instinct will take |
| into their heads from the first day they step on a | | | | over, and since there has been no training; the results |
| wrestling mat. The biggest challenge that wrestlers | | | | will be that of an ordinary unskilled fighter. The wrestler, |
| face in MMA is the fear of having their backs or | | | | even just an average one, will have an enormous |
| shoulders on the mat. | | | | advantage and should dominate the fight. |
| Every wrestler fights to stay off of his back. It's in our | | | | If wrestlers can adapt the traditional moves that are |
| blood. Champion wrestlers have conditioned | | | | taught with slight modifications focused on submitting, |
| themselves to keep from going to their backs without | | | | punishing, and finishing their opponents; they will excel in |
| having to think about it. We make it become a reflex | | | | MMA and take the sport to the next level. |
| action. | | | | Wrestlers starting out today that desire to one day |
| In a wrestling match, a competitor risks giving up points | | | | compete in MMA should prepare for both sports at |
| or getting pinned when his shoulders are exposed to | | | | the same time so that they will not have to retrain their |
| the mat. This is not the case in MMA where the | | | | minds to lose the fear of exposing their backs to the |
| competitor on his back can actually have the | | | | mat. |