Hey I thought I'd start this thread off as there has been some MMA, Boxing and Muay Thai talk on the Jonatan Royle thread which sparked my interest as too how people are combining them with NLP!

I used to do a fair bit amature boxing and some martial arts in the past and I enjoying watchin MMA, UFC too

So who does combat sports and how are they combining it with NLP?

Regards

Lenny

Ive posted in the other thread, but i teach MMA, primarily Muay Thai, Kickboxing and BJJ.
I also teach the odd class of systema, and yoga and Joint Mobility. Ive found as a coach that language patterns can really assist with the assimilation of ideas and also with the ability to understand movement and range of motion etc.

More later.

I don't do combat sports, but I've been doing some martial arts for a while and that what I found working for me:

1. State management: what state of mind you have to be for the optimal combat performance?
2. Plain old motivation... what do you do when you do not feel like going to dojo for training?
3. Modeling more advanced practioners of the art or at the very least being in a receptive enough state to accept feedback from your teachers.
4. In styles like Aikido, juijuitsu, Systema where sensory acuity and mental flexibility are important, by all means, use your NLP skills.
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As for the more esoteric aspects of NLP training like energy work, influencing your opponent state non-verbally, etc, I found it useful to leave at the door of the dojo and receive whatever my teachers have to give me on their own terms.

Hi Lenny,

Sorry I had started a new thread in the Teaching and Learning section before I just noticed your in the "Fight Club" section, very similar title.

Kind regards,

Nick

alexk wrote:

I don't do combat sports, but I've been doing some martial arts for a while and that what I found working for me:

1. State management: what state of mind you have to be for the optimal combat performance?
2. Plain old motivation... what do you do when you do not feel like going to dojo for training?
3. Modeling more advanced practioners of the art or at the very least being in a receptive enough state to accept feedback from your teachers.
4. In styles like Aikido, juijuitsu, Systema where sensory acuity and mental flexibility are important, by all means, use your NLP skills.
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As for the more esoteric aspects of NLP training like energy work, influencing your opponent state non-verbally, etc, I found it useful to leave at the door of the dojo and receive whatever my teachers have to give me on their own terms.

Ive had some interesting experiences, as last year i developed psoriatic arthritis which caused hell with my training, due to range of motion, pain etc. However, it has served well in the sense i have a much greater understanding of our patients, and of those with range of motion, fear issues etc, and utilising hypnosis etc i have moved on leaps and bounds.....

This could be a great thread.

Pierre wrote:

Hi Lenny,

Sorry I had started a new thread in the Teaching and Learning section before I just noticed your in the "Fight Club" section, very similar title.

Kind regards,

Nick

Ha...well i thought if it was about combat sports it would hav to go in fight club....even if we r being nice to each other

lennydw67 wrote:

Ha...well i thought if it was about combat sports it would hav to go in fight club....even if we r being nice to each other

You're right, where else would it go!

Kind regards,

Nick

I just got an email from streetfightsecrets.com and in it was contained this offer:

1. the NLP and Psychology of Violence CD course is completed and is now available from the site for £15

I won't be buying it at least at the mo' but he has lots of clips on youtube

chikimonki wrote:

I just got an email from streetfightsecrets.com

Hi Peter,

That is the guy Bob Spour I was talking about on another thread, I met him he's one tough guy. He's a regular on Kerrang Radio on Tim Shaw's show at night, very funny too, tells some great stories.

He told me that in one of those video's he fractures the skull of the guy who appears with him by accident.

He trained with Bandler and McKenna for his NLP.

Kind regards,

Nick

Cheers, Nick I didn't know that

I read somewhere that Fedor Emelianenko was brought up in very difficult enviroment as a child, as his family was poor an dlive was very tough, and now when he goes inside the ring he looks at his opponent as someone who is trying to send him back to those difficult times...

Hows that for an strategy...

He is great, respectful and posed as none!

Regards!

When practicing sistema and learning to just relax and go with the punches instead of tensing up to them, simple NLP reframing ('The body I am using' instead of 'My body') worked wonders for my in actually relaxing and doing it well.