Issue 037
May 2008
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Injuries waiting to happen
Posted by Rosi
I’ve just spent the last five days doing one of my Osteopathy residential weeks. It’s been damn good in parts, and dull in others. Even a healthy dose of PhD’s wired was hard pressed to keep me awake through six hours of clinical medicine on one day.
One of our lectures about spinal mechanics, though, got me thinking again about MMA and the problems that fighters tend to pick up.
How often do you hear someone say something like “I can train five times a week and don’t get injured, and then I wrecked my back just getting out of bed the other morning”? Or “I don’t know how it happened, I didn’t do anything to it in training, I just woke up one day and it had started hurting”? If you’ve been around the sport a while, you probably know someone this has happened to, and there’s a good chance you’ve said something similar yourself at some point.
The thing is, as I keep telling the fighters I work with, injuries don’t “just happen”…. [For the rest of the post go to the blog]
Homemade T-shirts rule
Posted by Fighters Only Mag Editor
Spotted at the recent Chuck Liddell autograph signing in London.
Sneak Peek - The Iceman
Posted by Fighters Only Mag Editor
We met with Chuck here in London on Thursday 13th March. Look out for an upcoming feature on The Iceman himself very soon. Though suffering from a horrendous cold, he was on fine form and in a good mood.
The picture above was taken just a few minutes after Chuck had spent five minutes on the subject of how to hit on girls in clubs. We’ll be trying out our Iceman-tested techniques as soon as
we can!
Cage Rage 25 recap
Posted by Fighters Only Mag Editor
Well it was an interesting night, all told. Shamrock went down, and internet fans screamed “dive!” I was twelve inches from where Shamrock lay, and he was pretty fucked up. Either he deserves an Oscar, or he has the world’s weakest chin. I’m going with the latter. Masakazu Imanari shredded Jean Silva’s knee with a vicious inverted heel hook, but the highlight for me was his sick omoplata sweep from rubber guard. Eddie Bravo would be proud.
Their next show is in May, and will feature UK light heavyweight Paul Cahoon defend his title against our long-time friend, Ian Freeman. This promises to be an eventful fight, so I’ll definitely be ringside, camera in hand, ready to capture whatever happens. It will be brutal.
Keep checking the main news site and www.cagerage.tv for updates.
