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| 09/20/06 15:35
What's it like to train at Pat Miletich's camp, the camp that trains UFC's top champions Matt Hughes, and Tim Sylvia? It's like no other martial arts gym you've ever experienced. No Katas. No ...
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What's it like to train at Pat Miletich's camp, the camp that trains UFC's top champions Matt Hughes, and Tim Sylvia? It's like no other martial arts gym you've ever experienced. No Katas. No Robes. No Belts. Just 10 hours a week of brutal, hard core, workouts and no nonsense instruction on how to defeat your opponent. | |
| by David Hinkle - 09/20/06 15:35
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I joined Champions about a month ago. Just a block from the Mississippi river, in Bettendorf IA. The place is huge, much larger than any other gym I've been to in town, and it's busy, full of fighters every day. It's a strange feeling to read a sign like: "For private instruction, call Pat Miletich to be assigned an instructor". But even stranger still is watching world champion Matt Hughes walk through the door talking and having a good time like any other guy.
When people introduce themselves they say things like: "What's your record?" "I saw your last fight, I can't believe the way you landed that knee." And "Do you plan on going pro?". Everybody comes to work, and work hard.
The workouts are brutal. Each evening starts at 5:30 with an hour for the beginners that the pro's use for a warm up, followed with 1 hour of advanced instruction. And I use the term "Beginner" loosely. Many "Beginners" have the kind of records that make you quietly afraid to talk to them in person and make you listen very closely when they take the time to give you pointers.
Beginners have kickboxing on Mondays and Wednesdays, and jiu-jitsu on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fridays is beginner sparring (It's not recommended that you even show up until you've been a "beginner" for at least 6-8 months, and then only if you've been coming every day). Advanced classes have names like, Advanced MMA, Advanced Judo, Advanced Grappling and Advanced sparring, where you can see world champions sweating it out and learning new things.
Beginner Kickboxing workouts are done in 5-10 minute blocks, drilling on combinations or calisthenics. Nobody makes it through class without ringing the sweat out of their T-shirt.
Beginner Jui-Jitsu classes are much harder. The first half of the class is instructions and drills followed by 30 minutes of wrestling vs random partners. No breaks longer than a minute for anybody and the people you are wrestling against are here to learn how to fight in the UFC. Everybody goes hard and nobody goes without gasping for breath.
All together, my experience at Champions has been like nothing else in my life. I feel my muscles growing harder every day, my body growing stronger, and I look at my old "hardcore" workouts and think of them as something like recreation. Something to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
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