20 day fight camp

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Feb 5th 2020, my fighter Carl (9-1) got a big offer to fight a guy with a pro record of 12-3. Good thing my guy was already n shape and good to go! Gonna be coming up a weight class but thats due to having a hard time getting people to take a fight against him @ 155lbs

 

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Feb 9th 2020
1st session of the day

7-10 mins shadowbox warmup
3 min box round to start/warmup

3x 6 min rounds
- rounds were super light and technical, just worked on alotta defense and movement

1st session was light, heading back to the gym tonight for a hard wrestling practice.

 

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Feb 9th 2020

second workout/practice of the day

1 hour wrestling
- focused on offense and defense to single and double legs

 

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Feb 11th 2020
1 hour no gi class in the am

Night session
2 rounds of shadowboxing

4x 5 min rounds on thai pads
- 1st round just punches

2 rounds of shadowboxing
Finished the night off with 4 200 meter sprints

 

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Feb 13th 2020
1 hour nogi class in the am


night session
1 round shadowboxing
2 rounds partner shadowing and pummeling drills

3x 5 min rounds full mma sparring with takedowns.
- Every round had 2-3 guys switching in on him. All the guys he sparred with are straight killers.

Heres the tapology on 2 of the guys he sparred with tonight. Both of these guys are fighting in Hawaii 3 days before Carl’s fight.
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/fighters/137937-al-matavo

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/fighters/137941-maika-graf-red-mat

sparring today was rough so i cut Carl off after 3 rounds. Finished the day with another shadowboxing round mainly working footwork

 

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Feb 14th 2020

2 rounds of shadowboxing (mixing in sprawls every now and then)

4x 5 min rounds striking only sparring (with safety gloves) with this guy

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/fighters/60507-mike-fannon-the-cannon

Ended the day with some box jump burpees and med ball slams

 

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So we are currently 11 days out from fight night. Because we took the fight on 20 days notice and Carl was already in good shape (not fight shape) we were able to start of the first week of camp real hard. I feel good where hes at and for the next 11 days will be mostly getting his heart rate up and keeping him sharpe.

 

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Feb 16th 2020
2 rounds shadowboxing

2x 6 min rounds grappling
- first round starting from the feet
- second round working out of bad spots, if he escaped, we would start over in another bad spot

2x 5 min rounds on the muay thai bag
1x 5 min round on aqua bag/ball
Finished with 1 round of shadowboxing

wrestling practice unfortunately is scrapped for tonight, but we are debating on doing a pad sesh tonight..

 

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Feb 16th 2020
Night session

since we didnt have wrestling practice, I decided to make this night session a fun one

1 round shadowboxing
2 rounds shadowbox spar drills

1x 5 min round pads
5 min run @ 8mph
1x 5 min round pads
5 min run @ 8mph
1x 5 min round padwork

Circuit
15 seconds battle rope (as hard as he can)
45 seconds active recovery shadowboxing
Repeated 3x for 3 mins total

 

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Feb 17th 2020

So a little hiccup in our plans, Carl had a scheduled change for the week, so we decided to do a workout since he will not be able to attend his normal morning Tuesday no gi bjj class.

after some jump rope and shadowboxing rounds, i decided to switch the day up and run a mma circuit which i stole from Phil Daru. It was a bodyweight mma circuit, nothing too crazy but burned some calories while doing mma oriented exercises and some core work.

After the circuit, worked some resistance bands stuff working his straight punches. Today’s total workout session was about 35 mins

 

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Feb 18th 2020

2 rounds of shadowboxing
2 rounds of grappling (starting from the feet)
2 rounds of kickbox sparring with big gloves n shin pads
2 rounds padwork
2 rounds bag work
(All rounds were 6 mins)

 

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Feb 20th 2020
1 round jump rope
1 round shadowboxing

LAST SPAR SESSION
4x 5 min rounds standup sparring (with safety gloves)
- 1st round was a warmup round

5x 200 meter sprints
Finished with 2 rounds of shadowboxing

 

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Feb 21st 2020
1 round jump rope

1x 10 min round shadow sparring
1 round drilling combos to takedowns

4x 5 min rounds thai pads
1 round shadowboxing
Finished with core work

 

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Feb 23rd 2020
Half mile warm up run
2 rounds shadowboxing

Padwork
1x 10 min round
1x 5 min round

Then I had Carl switch into fight gloves
2x 5 min rounds

1 round shadowboxing
Half mile run @ 9mph

 

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Feb 24th 2020
LAST DAY OF TRAINING
1 round jump rope
1 round shadowboxing

6x 5 min rounds of a mix between kick shield, thai pad, and focus mitt work

1 round of shadow sparring
1 round of shadowboxing

 

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Feb 25th

weigh in day

Carlton: 169.8
Opponent: 170.8

didnt cut much weight at all today. Carl woke up a tad over 172lbs. All he did was not eat or drink while @ work n made weight. Opponent looked real shredded, should be a fun fight haha!

 

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Feb 26th 2020

My guy Carl go the win via UD, but def not his best performance.

First round was 50/50 on who won the round. My guy had a slow start but finished the round strong.

Second and third round all striking and my guy def won those rounds.

Official score were 29-28 29-28 and 30-27

My guy Carl improved to 10-1 as a pro... but still some things we gotta work on

 

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Tapology updated his record... glad my guy bounced back from his first defeat. Looks like something big this summer is what’s next

 

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Link to the video of round 3

 

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UFC BOUND!! On our way to Vegas!