What is MMA?

Series Summary

Mixed Martial Arts Kickboxing, normally associated with cage fighting, blends many different fighting forms including: Muay Thai Kickboxing, Judo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Boxing, and Wrestling. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has gained in popularity since the first Ultimate Fighting Championship won by Royce Gracie. It is so popular it will soon become an Olympic Event and was actually set to be included in the 2004 games but lost its place at the last minute. MMA fighters have historically trained in a specific martial art such as Muay Thai Boxing or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu before combining the techniques; however, recently students have begun to train specifically for MMA with other students and a variety of trainers. If you would like to learn Mixed Martial Arts kickboxing techniques learn from one of our experts.

In this free video series, expert Sensei Angel Perez teaches you basic mixed martial arts moves and techniques. You will learn how to do throws like the hip toss, leg locks like the triangle figure four leg lock, the hari gochi, arms bars, and more! Angel also teaches you heel hooks, ground work, the guillotine, knee strikes, and beginner's Muay Thai. It's all here!

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Angel Perez with Champion Martial Arts in Miami, Florida. Today we are going to teach you mixed martial arts techniques. Today, let's talk about mixed martial arts. Mix martial arts is a combination of several different styles of self defense martial arts, however you want to call it. It includes judo, which is my forte. Jujitsu, wrestling, boxing and muay Thai boxing which includes knees and elbows. Again it is a combination of all of them, it is also called interactive combating. The reason for that obviously you are combining each and every single martial arts known to men. Anything available to you goes and in mixed martial arts. The rules are very different this is mostly for adults and it is not recommend for children. "