Tag: Guard Pass

VIDEO: This Backflip Guard Pass Is the Coolest Thing You’ll See All Week

Holy shit. Epic guard pass at Akhmat pic.twitter.com/8tWsHEJ4Us

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We’ve seen all varieties of guard passes in MMA over the years: Chad Mendes’ front flip, Mark Hunt’s atomic butt drop, and perhaps most impressively, Ze Wu’s flying cartwheel groin stomp. We’ve seen Mark Coleman put himself into guard for reasons that remain a mystery to this day, but the one thing that all of these guard passes all seem to have in common? They don’t really work.

Yes, it’s a sad fact that the world of stylistic guard passes are, well, more style than substance when it comes right down to it, but that’s something Russian lightweight Dzhihad Yunusov was looking to change while competing at an Akhmat event this morning. Squaring off against Konstantin Veselkin and finding himself stifled by his opponent’s guard, Yunusov opted to skip the foreplay and get right to the main event — to deliver an incredibly muddled metaphor — back-flipping over Veselkin’s legs and right into side mount in one of the sickest sequences you’ll see this year.

As if that wasn’t enough, Yunusov then went on to submit Veselkin with a god dang Ezekiel choke in the closing moments of the second round. I think it’s safe to say that we should all probably be keeping an eye on this kid.

After the jump The full fight between Yunusov and Veselki.

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(via caposa)

We’ve seen all varieties of guard passes in MMA over the years: Chad Mendes’ front flip, Mark Hunt’s atomic butt drop, and perhaps most impressively, Ze Wu’s flying cartwheel groin stomp. We’ve seen Mark Coleman put himself into guard for reasons that remain a mystery to this day, but the one thing that all of these guard passes all seem to have in common? They don’t really work.

Yes, it’s a sad fact that the world of stylistic guard passes are, well, more style than substance when it comes right down to it, but that’s something Russian lightweight Dzhihad Yunusov was looking to change while competing at an Akhmat event this morning. Squaring off against Konstantin Veselkin and finding himself stifled by his opponent’s guard, Yunusov opted to skip the foreplay and get right to the main event — to deliver an incredibly muddled metaphor — back-flipping over Veselkin’s legs and right into side mount in one of the sickest sequences you’ll see this year.

As if that wasn’t enough, Yunusov then went on to submit Veselkin with a god dang Ezekiel choke in the closing moments of the second round. I think it’s safe to say that we should all probably be keeping an eye on this kid.

After the jump The full fight between Yunusov and Veselki.

(Hat tip: Uproxx)

The post VIDEO: This Backflip Guard Pass Is the Coolest Thing You’ll See All Week appeared first on Cagepotato.

Martial Arts Fail of the Week: How A Ninja Passes the Guard

This week’s Martial Arts Fail was going to re-visit Master Wong—the man who warned us that eye pokes would result in our families being murdered. But midway through the week we received a tip from CagePotato contributor Adam Ackerman. When we watched the video he sent us, we knew it had to be this week’s Martial Arts Fail.

This week’s Martial Arts Fail was going to re-visit Master Wong—the man who warned us that eye pokes would result in our families being murdered. But midway through the week we received a tip from CagePotato contributor Adam Ackerman. When we watched the video he sent us, we knew it had to be this week’s Martial Arts Fail.

The video details how to pass someone’s guard (or “scissor lock” as they call it in the video) like a ninja. It involves flopping onto your side and doing what amounts to a pro wrestling move called a single leg Boston crab. What’s sad is that the instructor, Stephen K. Hayes, is apparently some kind of ninjitsu legend. He even has a Wikipedia page (but then again, so do we and we don’t exactly epitomize legitimacy). If dubious, impractical techniques like this are being taught by the best instructor ninjitsu has to offer, god only knows what kind of crap you’ll find in the bad ninjitsu schools.

Definitely give this video a watch. And if you’re brave, test out this ninja guard pass next time you’re rolling.

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