Incorporating Bas Rutten's MMA workout into solo knife & gun training

[pyrolyzer]

Man! I've had this set of workout & exercise instruction for just a couple of weeks and I really like the results that I'm seeing. I’ve been incorporating my solo knife and dryfire gun practice with this workout system and really like that too.



Bas Rutten is a bareknuckle fighter from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (two time heavyweight champ). He now teaches in Hollywood California and produced a set of workout disks (one DVD and 4 audio CDs.) The DVD is instruction and tells you how to perform the exercises on the audio disks. The audio disks cover: (1) boxing (2) Thai Boxing (3) all-around fighting (Thai boxing with wrestling drills added in) and (4) all-around workout.



Rutten doesn't tell you very much about how to fight. These are just intense workouts (about 30-minutes each) that use the fighting moves and skills to build upon. The disks contain two workout routines each. The workout routines may be performed alone without equipment (shadow boxing), with a partner and focus pads, or with a heavy-bag for hard striking.



I've really enjoyed the disks and the results that I'm seeing from them (aside from the strength & cardio benefit, my jab-straight-hook-straight combo has gotten MUCH faster than I would have imagined before.)



The workouts consist of two or three minute "rounds" broken by one-minute rests. I want to get in some technical training too. So, I use the one-minute rests to perform the side-step, draw, dryfire and after action assessment that Gabe Suarez teaches in his Close Range Gunfighting Class or one of the flow-drills that Mike Janich teaches in his martial bladecraft class. Ten, one-minute sessions of these mental and technical drills combined with the ten two-minute fighting drills in Bas Rutten's Tape and I feel like I did some pretty good training, conditioning and preparation.





You can find his disks at (http://www.basrutten.tv/index.html)



Chuck

[thombrogan]

That's a pretty cool idea, Chuck! Thanks for sharing it. You could also get a khukuri, dulls its edge, and use that for your flow drills if you want to make your 'rest' period a little more anaerobic and add more wrist conditioning.

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[pyrolyzer]

Well, I started to try it out with my kukri but didn't either have the heart to dull it or risk removing some appendages in the process. But I liked your idea so I brok out my copy of Michael's book &quot;Homemade Martial Arts Training Equipment,&quot; (available from Paladin Press) and made myself some padded escrima sticks. Now, I'll use one of those to do the flow drills or two of them and try the &quot;heaven six&quot; drill.

[Stephen]

Heh, I commented on how funny it was to see spam here and it was deleted as soon as I posted. Oh well, nice catch Kristi (or whoever), you caught that really quick!

[jujigatame]

I'm afraid I can't add anything to the topic of the training, but I love ol' Bas so I'll toss in this picture of him goofing around. :)

[SlideTechnik]

He tells you how to fight in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3K-mrlYG7Y

[Nonprophet]

I've always found that finding a knife from one of the discount places (you can get them for as little as 5 dollars) that is similar to what you would be using works best. Then I put the knife on a grinder and make the blade and point really dull and then go over the edges with a finer file to remove and burs and use that for one or two man training. While the two man training can still get a little painful (taking a jab in the ribs from even a blunted steel knife hurts!) you won't have to worry about asking the local hospital to reattach an appendage.