"No Can Defend!"

[metsubushi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rAWIqRbda4

seagal is coaching Machida's front kicks at about a minute in. I don't know why people are mocking the guy. He's obviously given Machida and Silva some ideas to play with. By their own admission.

[TenTigers]

just so long as he doesn't start coaching Joe Bonamasa on how to play the blues....

[Hardwork108]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rAWIqRbda4

seagal is coaching Machida's front kicks at about a minute in. I don't know why people are mocking the guy. He's obviously given Machida and Silva some ideas to play with. By their own admission.

Good point. The same people who break everyone's balls about the "benefits" of cross training, turn around and mock it when a MMA-ists is training with a TMA instructor.

This is very ironic in Machida's case, because the man himself comes from a traditional Shotokan Karate background.

[GeneChing]

UFC 129 Results: Is Steven Seagal the Next Great Mixed Martial Arts Trainer?
By Adam Wells
(Featured Columnist) on May 2, 2011

How Many Fighters Are Going To Enlist The Help Of Steven Seagal Following UFC 129?

Steven Seagal is probably more famous now for what he has done with mixed martial arts fighters than he ever was for being a movie and television star.

The whole Seagal fad started at UFC 126 when Anderson Silva knocked out Vitor Belfort with a front kick to the face. When asked where he learned the kick from, he told the world that Seagal was the man behind the kick heard round the world.

This past Saturday night at UFC 129, Lyoto Machida took the Silva kick and added some flare to it by turning it into the Crane Kick that Ralph Macchio used in The Karate Kid when he knocked out Randy Couture early in the second round of their fight. Once again, Seagal's name was brought up when Machida was asked where he learned the kick.

In every sport you will find copycats. Teams or individual athletes will get wind of some new formation or style or technique that has been working for someone for a long time. As soon as everyone else finds out about it, they have to get in on it.

Seagal has now taught two of the best fighters in the world a move that has led to two very stylish knockouts and they have happened two months apart.

There are going to be phone calls, e-mails, texts, tweets, skypes, instant message, chats, basically any form of communication that a fighter can use to get in touch with Seagal will be used in the coming weeks. Everyone is going to want a lesson with him hoping to learn something that can get them a knockout victory.

Whether you like it or not, Steven Seagal is going to be sitting cage side for a lot of these fighters in the future thanks to Silva and Machida putting down two men with the same kick. The good news is we won't have to sit through another Under Siege movie as a result.

I was going to post this on our Seagal is at it again thread but I must give credit where credit is due...

[wenshu]

Good point. The same people who break everyone's balls about the "benefits" of cross training, turn around and mock it when a MMA-ists is training with a TMA instructor.

This is very ironic in Machida's case, because the man himself comes from a traditional Shotokan Karate background.

Aikido is traditional?

[Iron_Eagle_76]

Considering this is a basic kick learned in both Karate and Taekwondo, two styles to which Machida and Silva have studied extensively, I find it hard to believe they were never introduced to this technique until the great Steven Seagal came around.

That being said, if the context and application of the kick was somehow different than what they were previously taught and Seagal taught them a better delivery system, good on him and both Machida and Silva. But is it that or simply a PR stunt for all involved? Who knows, and in all honesty, who cares.

[Hardwork108]

Aikido is traditional?

I believe so. Also, Seagal has experience in other arts, including Wing Chun. From what I saw on the video, he was teaching a mixture of traditional approaches.

[Hardwork108]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rAWIqRbda4

seagal is coaching Machida's front kicks at about a minute in. I don't know why people are mocking the guy. He's obviously given Machida and Silva some ideas to play with. By their own admission.

I will also add that the people here end up mocking Machida and Silva much more than they do Seagal, because obviously they were the ones who chose to interact with Seagal, investing their time, if not money, to see his approach.

[Drake]

Kung Fu is a hobby and a pleasant alternative to the usual routine of pushups, situps, crossfitty stuff, and running.

If I really want to beat you... I'll just shoot you.

And if I don't have a weapon handy, then I will simply take you out - Grimlock style.

[Lucas]

if i want to take someone down i just pay drake to shoot them for me.

[Hardwork108]

if i want to take someone down i just pay drake to shoot them for me.

You would pay him???? No way!!! All you have to do is tell him that they are Fundamentalist Islamic "terrorists", here to threaten the American way of life, and then direct him to lap dancing club where they can be found (it seems that it is a common belief in the US Intelligence community that a favorite pass time for fanatical Islamic terrorists is to spend a lot of time in strip joints while drinking alcohol...LOL!)!

Anyway, that is how you will get a freebee from Drake.