Combat Chat Podcast

This Episode the fellas get into a lengthy discussion on the future of Bare knuckle Boxing with the upcoming fight between Paulie Malignaggi and Artem Lobov. They cover the Muay Thai bouts like Rodlek vs Harrison and Stamp vs Juniku in ONE's last event: Legendary quest and in the last segment they have a chat about injuries to expect in striking and grappling, how to manage them and still able to training while they heal.

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Time Stamps:
(30s-26min) WTF/What The Fight: Chael Soonen retires, Paulie Malignaggi on his upcoming bare knuckle fight, Elbows in WBSS and Tyson Fury antics

(26min-1hr) Breakdown/preview: Recaps Rodlek v Harrison, Stamp v Juniku, Collins v Cajaiba and Preview of Moicano v Korean Zombie.

1hr-1hr 26min) Coaches corner: Training injuries and how to work around them

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This episode the Fellas had the privilege of one of the best combat sport MC's in Australia for the past 20+ years come in to chat, Mr James White. We talk about how he got his start, to one of his most embarrassing moments during a big event, his drug addiction to eventual sobering up and his goal to give depressed and hard on their luck fighters after their career is done a support group of sorts to get them back on their feet, plus much more. This one is definitely one of our favourite episodes.

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This episode the Fellas go into the great performances and some of the ugly stuff on UFC 238, they also breakdown the Muaythai heavy ONE card: Legendary Quest in China this Saturday. There is a discuss in our Coaches corner on planning your eating to help recovery for the Combat sports Athlete or Recreational practitioner, like the benefits of doing cutting, maintenance and muscle gain phases and also breaking the myths on some of the diet fads and old school nonsense on how a fighter should be eating.

Time Stamps:
(32s-10min) WTF?/What The Fight?: Mackenzie Dern has her Baby, Zab Judah cleared from Hospital and Henry Cejudo the triple C.

(10min-56min) Recap of UFC fights: Cerrone v Ferguson, Schvenchenko v Eye and Cejudo v Moraes. Previw of ONE card fights: Rodlek v Harrison, Tarik vs Silva, Zi Hao v Miller, Hardcastle v chenglong, Sexiyama vs Thani and Stamp v Juniku.

(56min-1hr 16min) Combat coach corner: Eating for Combat sports, tracking calories and why it's important as a starting off point, benefits of doing cutting/maintenance/muscle gain phases, how to know you are cutting too much weight and be smart, don't do diet fads.

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This episode the Fellas list their go to online learning resources to but also talk about how to filter good one from not so good ones, when should you actually use online learning in your practical training and outline the stages of your training career of when to use specific online learning tools.

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This week the Fellas dove into all the retirements in the MMA world, Looking at one of the big upsets of the year in Andy Ruiz dethroning Anthony Joshua in our WTF section. Then in the Break it down section we Looking at Kai, Hugh's and Charlie Bubb v Mark Timms Performances on Kaos Muaythai in ACT, Trent goes over the good, bad and ugly of IBJJF world's held in California and we Breadown the top 3 fights on UFC 238. The Last section is a quick one about how about to get better Mobility for Combat sports athletes and we point you to a bunch of youtube channels to help with that.

Time stamps:
(33s-14min) - WTF/What the Fight: Latest retirements in MMA and Andy Ruiz vs Anthony Joshua Upset
(14min-1hr,4min) - Recap of Kaos Muaythai and IBJJF worlds, also Preview of UFC 238
(1hr,4mins-1hr,14m) - Mobility Combat sports

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This week the Fellas go over Hugh and Kai fighting in Canberra this weekend at Kaos Muaythai, they also go over their Commentary experience at Yokkao 39&40, the brackets for IBJJF worlds look solid and we discuss the best way to add weight training to help improve your athleticism for combat sports. 

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Time stamps:

• (35s-13min) - WTF/What The Fight!: Preview of Kaos muaythai Charile bubb vs Mark Timms, Yoel Romero gets court case payout and Jessica Andrade gets robbed in Brazil
• (13min-42min) - Recaps of Yokkao 39&40 and a look at IBJJF worlds bracket
• (43m-57m) - Combat sports S&C tip: How to add weight training to your training regime for combat sports

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(Time stamps and case study references below) This Episode the Fellas recap England's premier Submission grappling event Polaris and  do some question answering, in particular is Headgear doing the job it's meant for in Combat sports in NSW Amateur scene? As the situation is now in NSW since 2-3 years ago an introduction of a government appointed Combat Sports board (CSA) has legislated the wearing of headgear for amateur Muaythai/kickboxing/boxing Athletes on approved fight shows. We go into depth with published medical studies and anecdotal evidence on what head gear is actually doing and what is really isn't doing in terms of protecting the Athlete. Is it beneficial to fighters safety? or is it making more problems?

Time stamps:
(30s-23min) - Brief Talk on commenting Yokkao 39 & 40 and Polaris 10 recap
(23min-1hr.9min) - Discuss on Headgear being using for Amateur fighting and Safe sparring practises

Case studies on Head gear use in Amateur boxing:
Combat Sports Authority NSW study click HERE
Use of Head gears in AIBA tournaments Click HERE
Use of head gear performance in punch machine test Click HERE

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(Check below for time stamps) This week the fellas try to actual have a format to the show and divide the podcast into 3 segments. The first part is what we call WTF: What The Fight! where we talk about interesting things that has development this week in the fight game, then in the second part we have our usual recaps and breakdowns, this week was ONE's Enter the Dragon event, featuring the Featherweight kickboxing Tourney. Finally the third part is talking about strength & conditioning that transfer to Combat sports, if you have any questions please send them to us over instagram @enterthedoubledragon or Twitter @double_enter

Time stamps:

• (35s-28m/42s) - WTF/What The Fight!: Direct quotes from the Paul Malinaggi vs Artem Lobov Bare knuckle boxing press conference, Sage Northcutt face getting caved in and Chatri SItyodthong declares Petchmorakot/Petrosyan a no contest and demands rematch.
• (28m 52s-1h 7m) - ONE's Enter The Dragon Recap
• (1h 7m 30s- 1h 23m) - Combat sports S&C tip: what cardio should I do outside of my martial art training to bump up my fitness? Long steady or Intervals?

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This week the fellas have a discuss and give some explanation of some of the Traditional aspects to anyone new to Muay thai and BJJ scene. From the wearing of Mongkols and the Wai Kru before fighting in the ring for Muay Thai to why we still wear the Gi and some history of the linage of Juijitsu.

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This week the Fellas Talking about the Muaythai action on ONE's Bangkok event Warriors of light featuring Nong-O vs Suzuki, then we go over UFC 237 in brazil and touch on the slam KO of Rose Namajunas by Jessica Andrade to crown her the new Straw-weight Queen. Lastly we cover the upcoming Feather-weight Kickboxing quarterfinals for ONE's event: Enter the Dragon. it Features legends like Giorgio Petrosyan, Yodslankai, Smokin' Jo Nattawut, Enriko Kehl and Dzharbar Askerov just to name a few.

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