How Alex Pereira KO'd Dustin Jacoby in Glory 14 - With Video Tutorial

Often times Martial Arts schools lean too far to one Direction or the Other. Either they throw you into the deep end before teaching you how to swim... By not teaching you ANYTHING about the basics... Or all they do is overload you with move after move after move... Never giving you the time to apply said basics and fully understand them in the first place.

Yet time and time again we see in nearly every MMA and Kickboxing match... its the proper application of the basics... that win fights... I like to think of it as the Science of fighting.

I am referring specifically today to the Alex Pereira/ Dustin Jacoby fight in Zagreb Croatia. With a smart rear knee to a lead hook, Pereira put Jacoby to the floor in what commentator Duke Rufus called "Kick Boxing 101."

Sometimes, Basics can get kind of boring. But Basics win fights, so to become truly talented you have to embrace the mundane of the easy and make them your own. Sometimes it is difficult to ignore the itch of the evolutionary desire to get in the ring and senselessly throw fists. But if that's the case, you have to ask yourself a question...

Do I want to FIGHT? Or do I want to BE a FIGHTER?

Be wary of gyms that throw you into sparring with out teaching you these basics... they're just taking your money. If you wanted to spar with a group of idiots you could have found a back yard full of beer drinking brawlers to swing at for free.

Here is a video Tutorial of how to Apply the knee to hook concept for yourself. And here is a link to our YouTube page for more Awesome Video.

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"Big Bang" Mike O'Laskey is an MMA Fighter and Coach With a Martial Arts School in Burbank California

1312 W. Magnolia Blvd
Burbank, CA 91506
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Tel: 818-480-7810

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300: Rise of an Empire - Some Sword and Shield Action

300: Rise of an Empire is set to hit theaters this weekend. So we here at O'Laskey Martial Arts thought it might be fun to do a Tutorial video on some Sword and Shield drills to help you guys get into the spirit.

Often times people will view the shield a merely a defensive weapon... But the shield has offensive uses as well as active defensive movements that accompany the sword quite well as you will see in the video below.

Try these drill before you go out and see the movie! If you don't have fake swords, you can use Kali sticks... Even your kids Light Sabers (Yes, we know you've got them) Notice how tiring the drills can be...

Perhaps now you realize why everyone in Sparta seems to have perfect bodies.

"Big Bang" Mike O'Laskey is an MMA Fighter and Coach With a Martial Arts School in Burbank California

1312 W. Magnolia Blvd
Burbank, CA 91506
olaskeyma@gmail.com

Tel: 818-480-7810

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12 ways to Know You're An MMA Fighter

"Cutting" doesn't mean the same thing to you as it does everyone else.

Regular Headphones don't fit into your ears.

People ask you to choke them out.

Or challenge you to wrestling matches in random social settings... and they get choked out.

You're suspicious of any blemish on your body.

Gym Rats mock Crossfitters and Crossfitters mock Gym rats... The important thing is you've found a way to feel superior to both...

Until someone mocks you in public for wearing "TapouT"... And you can't defend yourself, Because telling them you are actually a fighter feels MORE douchey... 

Doing cage work in class means every one at the next pool party is going to think you have a disease.

You've had to rationalize to both male and female friends how rolling shirtless with other dudes isn't gay...

Yet wearing tiny shorts and extra tight shirts is perfectly acceptable...

Going to the gym for you is not the same as for every other guy.

And the last way to know you're an MMA Fighter is because you've put it all on the line... and step into one of these...

Seems obvious... But there are people who train all their lives and will never see the inside of a cage. You are one of the brave few that doesn't ONLY train... but also fights... You applied your training... and you deserve the moniker of "Fighter"...

"Big Bang" Mike O'Laskey is an MMA Fighter and Coach With a Martial Arts School in Burbank California

1312 W. Magnolia Blvd
Burbank, CA 91506
olaskeyma@gmail.com

Tel: 818-480-7810

www.olaskeyma.com