Victory in the Free - Movement Phase - Wrestling in Schaumburg, Aurora, Naperville,, Merrivillle IN

The most crucial means to victory in the free-movement phase lies in superior striking ability. If you can hit harder, faster, and more accurately than you opponent can, while at the same time taking fewer hits and preventing him form taking you into another phase of combat, then you stand an excellent chance of victory on your feet. In an MMA tournament, you must be able to strike while defending takedown attempts. This is striking in a real fight. In the former, you can commit to full-power punching and kicking without fear of takedowns, since these are illegal in boxing and kick boxing. The problem confronting strikers is that fully committing to striking open you up for takedowns. The result is that strikers must be much more cautious in their offense in MMA than in normal boxing matches. Strikers must limit the duration of their striking combinations, and they must also work hard on their takedown defenses if they are to avoid being quickly and unceremoniously dumped to the ground by a quick grappler.

Because a fight will go to the clinch quickly  once striking begins, most MMA striking specialist use the head as the primary target for punches in the free-movement phase. Fighters execute little body punching since they simple do not have the time to work the body as if it were a boxing match. Kicks also tend to be focussed on the legs and not the body; there is much less chance of begin grabbed and taken down with a low kick than a high kick. in general, fighters tend to use high kicks only late in the match when their opponents are tired or hurt and therefore less likely to counter. When a fighter works with powerful, chopping kicks to the same time defending takedowns, a striker can present himself as a very formidable opponent. As a result of following this strategy, far more fights are being won in the free-movement phase than was the case in early MMA competition, when strikers tended to use the same tactics they would in a boxing or kick boxing match. This assumption, combined with a total ignorance of the crucial ground-fighting game, had spelled disaster for specialist strikers in early MMA competition.

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