(Japanese martial arts equipment) So you want to start an MMA site
March 22nd, 2008
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Are you looking to start your own MMA site or forum? Do you want some basic guidelines to get you started? Let me give you a few things I have learned over the past year of setting up my own site.
There are a few things you will need to get you started:
1. Domain name: Make sure you get a good catchy domain name that fits your subject matter, if possible get the .com or .net version.
2. Web hosting: Try not to use a free web host as many will place unwanted and unneeded advertising on your pages. There are hundreds of thousands of hosts out there, pick a reliable one. My sites are all hosted by resellerzoom/hostingzoom and I have had no problems and have received excellent support.
3. A basic vision of what you want to do with your site: Do you want a forum? A picture gallery? A directory? Get the basics of your site down and write out a plan for what to do with it. Start off small with a blog or a directory site. Use a free software for your site until you can afford to get your own custom design and or software.
Once you have got your site started you need to get people to it. Heres a few ways to go about it.
1. Link exchanges: Most sites will exchange links without a problem as it also helps them out when people find their site through you. The mma community is very helpful with each other in this aspect.
2. Directories: There are thousands upon thousands of free directories out there you can submit your site to. Use the list located at http://www.directorycritic.com/free-directory-list.html they provide over a 1000 directories that provide free submissions. The best thing about most directories is that they are a free link back.
3. Forums: Join the forums at the larger news sites and keep a link to your site in your signature.
Once you have found your audience you have to keep them coming back:
1. Make sure your content is updated: There are events all over the country that happen every day and every weekend. Gather event info and post the info and pictures on your site. Write your own short articles, do interviews with interesting people from the world of MMA.
2. Keep our site organized: Make sure it is easy to find your way around your site.
3. Write your own articles and submit them to article directories, the more they are published the more link you will gain to your site
I hope this helps those of you that this article reaches out to. If anyone has any questions feel free to contact me through my site and I would be glad to help out.
Brian Robertson is owner and operator of www.mmatoday.com . Born and raised in Oceanside, California
Self Defense And Psychological Preparedness
Being psychologically prepared is critical for self defense during an assault in the street. It is very important to be ready to repel the assailant (assailants) using all the means you have. Note that even being in not very good physical shape these means could be quite sufficient to disable your enemy (enemies).
For example, if you wear hard sharp-toe shoes, then kicking your enemy in groin or shank with the toe of such shoe (even if there are no years of practice behind this kick) immediately makes him writhe with pain for several moments. And this gives you enough time to either disable the enemy or simply run away.
Scratching facer using fingernails also causes pain shock to your enemy and makes him unable to resist for some time. Remembering how dangerous a furious cat can be for people is enough to understand this.
In several cases, a furious cat is known to make its owners hide in one of the rooms and wait for the police to come and help them. Police officers in this situation often have to use guns to protect themselves and rescue the owners of the animal.
Now let’s take a look at a cat, its weight is about 30 times less than that of a man. And this tiny thing can resist police officers armed with firearms. That’s one thing. The other thing is that a common schoolboy, who tortures a cat giving it a hard time, can cope with it, the cat doing nothing to protect itself.
Now you can see the difference between a man employing everything he has at hand to give furious resistance to an assault, and a man who does not resist at all or makes poor attempts to resist.
So we see, at one hand, the enraged and furiously attacking cat that a couple of armed policemen cannot restrain, and, on the other hand, a meek unresisting cat that a little boy can easily handle. The difference is very substantial. This example clearly shows that the more furious and fast you resistance, the more chances you have to win the fight.
I remember a story told me by my disciple about one weak man small in stature, who succeeded in protecting himself against a husky trained fellow with the black belt in taekwondo, who assaulted him.
This small man was so furious and fearless giving his much stronger offender a hail of blows (weak and unskilled as they were) as to shock the guy and made him only try to cover himself from the blows.
One would think what chances had this tiny, middle-aged man, who has never gone in for any sport in a fight against a young and well-trained in taekwondo school guy with the black belt. Any one would say he had no chance. However, it all turned out badly for no one, but the young insolent beggar.
Why, after all, the winner was that small man, who had no chance to win. It is very simple. The moment the fight began, he had his consciousness fully blocked; he acted automatically guided by his subconsciousness.
At the moment, he had nothing in his mind, but the enemy and the thought of disabling that enemy by any means possibly. At that moment, his consciousness was, as it were, at one with the Universe. He feared nothing since the sense of fear was gone from him.
He had neither diffidence nor other impeding factors, that’s why all his actions became TRUE ones. Even though he had not much power and skill, but all he had he putted in each blow. So that’s why, seemingly, with no chance to succeed he won the unequal fight.
Quite contrarily, his enemy was stiffened with fear and uncertainty as a result of this sudden and furious repel. Who could ever dare to attack him, as he was so strong and practiced fighter, he thought. Certainly not this small man, who, as it seemed, was supposed to be trembling with fear.
But it turned out so that it was that strong and trained beef, who had a weak spirit. At the critical moment, his will, composure and fighting skills failed him. He simply got scared and confused, and, as a result, was defeated by a weaker and less skilled opponent.
Alexander Popov is the leading expert in knife and hand-to-hand combat in the version of Spetsnaz GRU. Spetsnaz martial arts videos and ebooks: <a href="http://www.spetsnaz-gru-smersh.com" title="http://www.spetsnaz-gru-smersh.com" target="_blank">http://www.spetsnaz-gru-smersh.com</a>
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