ronancloudland · 8 months ago
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Meet the Silverglade Baroque Horses!
Just a brief introduction to all the beautiful horses you can find at our farm. You can find our more about our horses and our organisation on our new website!!
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BALTO Lipizanner x Paint - 15hh - 15 y/o (2009) - Gelding Suitable for: Novice and up Disciplines: Trail riding; endurance; dressage (Advanced Medium); working equitation (Jorvik Championships 2x silver medalist) Temperament: Friendly, level-headed, speedy For winter loan?: No
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BONITA ("Bonnie") Lusitano (baroque type) - 15hh - 18 y/o (2006) - Mare Suitable for: Novice and up Disciplines: Trail riding; endurance; working equitation Temperament: Brave, forward-going, bombproof but occasionally grumpy For winter loan?: No
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LORCA PRE - 15.1hh - 17 y/o (2007) - Stallion Suitable for: Intermediate and up Disciplines: Trail riding; dressage (Prix St Georges with previous owner; currently Advanced Medium); working equitation Temperament: Laid back, quick learner, polite For winter loan?: No
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MERLIN Friesian x Jorvik Warmblood - 16.3hh - 10 y/o (2014) - Gelding Suitable for: Confident intermediate and up (trails); Advanced (jumping) Disciplines: Trail riding; dressage; working equitation; eventing (Novice with previous owner) Temperament: Very forward going; can be headstrong but never nasty or silly For winter loan?: No
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IBISCO Lusitano (sports type) - 16.1hh - 11 y/o (2013) - Gelding Suitable for: Intermediate and up Disciplines: Trail riding; dressage (Elementary); working equitation Temperament: Gentle, sparky, earnest For winter loan?: Yes
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ESCUDERO ("Skodi") Lusitano (baroque type) - 16.2hh - 15 y/o (2009) - Gelding Suitable for: Confident novice and up Disciplines: Trail riding; dressage (Advanced Medium); working equitation Temperament: Bold, steady, kind For winter loan?: No
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PHOEBUS Andalusian x Arab - 15.1hh - 11 y/o (2013) - Gelding Suitable for: Novice and up Disciplines: Trail riding; endurance; dressage; working equitation Temperament: Playful, push-button, all-rounder For winter loan?: Yes
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ENYO Andalusian x Jorvik Warmblood - 16.2hh - 9 y/o (2015) - Mare Suitable for: Advanced Disciplines: Trail riding; dressage (Elementary); working equitation Temperament: Green, can be nervous For winter loan?: Yes, to confident experienced home
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WILLOW PRE x Cob - 14.3hh (still growing!) - 5 y/o (2019) - Mare Not currently ridden by clients Temperament: Adorable, cheeky, very calm for her age For winter loan?: No
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NIMUE Garrano - 13.2hh - 6 y/o (2018) - Mare Suitable for: Intermediate and up Disciplines: Pack pony; trail riding; basic flatwork Temperament: Steady, curious, bossy with other horses! For winter loan?: Yes
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COYOTE Garrano - 13hh - 6 y/o (2018) - Gelding Suitable for: Intermediate and up Disciplines: Pack pony; trail riding; basic flatwork Temperament: Eager but very sensible For winter loan: Yes
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cavalreal · 5 years ago
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In this video you can see PRE stallion Veterano VI competing in a Prix St George test. Veterano IV is a very comfortable, generous and easy to ride Grand Prix dressage horse of 174 cm / 17.1hh and Bohorquez origins.
Although he is a stud stallion, Veterano’s character is kind and gentle, something that also expresses itself as a very generous attitude towards the rider. Working in the arena, he is very easy and comfortable to sit, including in the extended trot. Veterano VI is the father of our gorgeous PRE filly Electra Real (Veterano VI x Gramola, CavalReal 2018)
Breed: PRE Andalusian (Pura Raza Española)
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newyorksportstours · 5 years ago
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Year of Metro New York Sports Events Brings 9,450+ Pro Wins
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This view was captured during a New York Sports Tours private outing at Citi Field in Queens on July 26, 2019, at a Major League Baseball game won by the New York Mets versus the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates[/caption]
  Victories Abound in 18 Professional Sports on Most Recent Greater New York Calendar
  More than 9,450 professional wins were achieved during the 2019 Greater New York sports event schedule, another indication of the region's unparalleled sports influence.
  Representative of the number of times pro teams or individual competitors recorded wins last year, the number was calculated after a New York Sports Tours guest wondered aloud how many actual winners there are each year on the metropolitan New York sports calendar.
  New York Sports Tours encourages those aboard its New York sports history tour experience to pose known or discoverable truths related to New York sports. The luxury outing shows guests how sports in Greater New York has helped shape culture and society in the region and beyond.
  More than simply a count of 2019 pro sports events in the area, the win tally covers multiple wins in many single events. For example, the five-borough TCS New York City Marathon last year listed separate champions in 34 divisions. One of the winners, Joyciline Jeyciline, is shown in the below New York Sports Tours footage (in red shoes) entering the Bronx en route her professional women's victory.
  https://vimeo.com/411004069/be9ea6f1b7
  Sports wins have long been celebrated in New York, perhaps most memorably by Major League Baseball's New York Yankees.
  In 1998, the year the Yankees won the 24th of their record 27 World Series championships, club owner George Steinbrenner proclaimed, "Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing."
  At a public New York Sports Tours event, longtime Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said his favorite moments with the team have to do with wins, a sentiment captured in the below news clip from the event.
  https://vimeo.com/410728638/ce430f20bd
  In tallying wins, New York Sports Tours studied 18 professional spectator sports and included victories by home and visiting teams and athletes. Greater New York sports events were deemed professional if they had prize money or paid competitors.
  The sports range from traditional spectator draws such as horse racing and baseball to a sport with two pro New York teams but only two generations of history.
  Ultimate, often referred to as ultimate frisbee, has been part of the Greater New York sports scene since it was introduced in 1968 at Columbia High School in northern New Jersey, at the first sanctioned ultimate competition. The following decade, outlets such as in the below Pepsi commercial, which was filmed on New York City's Fordham University campus, raised national public awareness of the sport.
  https://vimeo.com/411082969/7f71256f52
  A  total of 9,497 wins, the vast majority of the 2019 pro victories in the New York City metropolitan area, are posted below. Ties are not included. Each team victory is counted as one win, not one win for each member of the team.
  Auto Racing — 2 Races 
  New York City E-Prix (2) | The two-day New York City E-Prix in Brooklyn in July 2019 featured the final two races of the Formula-E all-electric racing season. Switzerland's Sebastien Buemi won the opening race and Dutchman Robin Frijns the second.
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Sebastien Buemi (center) celebrates his New York City ePrix victory in Brooklyn in July 2019[/caption]
  Baseball — 395 Wins
  New York Mets (81) | Each Major League Baseball team is scheduled to play half of its 162 regular season games at home, and the Mets hit each of those marks in 2019. Since 2009, the Mets have played its home games at Citi Field in Queens.
  New York Yankees (86) | In 2019, the Yankees played five post-season games at at their home Yankee Stadium in the Bronx
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New York Sports Tours captured this shot at Coney Island's MCU Park during a win by the Baltimore Orioles affiliate Aberdeen IronBirds versus the Brooklyn Cyclones in New York-Penn League cation on July 6, 2019[/caption]
  Brooklyn Cyclones (42) | The minor league Brooklyn Cyclones, a New York Mets affiliate, won the New York-Penn League championship series in September 2019, the first time the club won the title outright. The Cyclones' home is Coney Island's MCU Park, where four of Brooklyn's 2019 playoff games were played.
  Long Island Ducks (74) | The Long Island Ducks, based at Bethpage Ballpark in Long Island's Suffolk County, won the 2019 Liberty Division of the Atlantic League, then lost to the York Revolution in the league championship series. Long Island finished both the first and second half of their 2019 minor league season in first place in the division.
  Somerset Patriots (72) | The Somerset Patriots of the Atlantic League play their home games at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater, New Jersey. In 2019, the minor league team reached the Liberty Division playoff series and led all Atlantic League teams in average home attendance.
  Staten Island Yankees (40) | Last year for the 19th consecutive season, the New York-Penn League's Staten Island Yankees played their home games at Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George.  The New York Yankees affiliate finished the season in fourth place in the four-team McNamara devision, three and a half games behind division leader Brooklyn. Staten Island also hosted the New York-Penn League's 2019 all-star game.
  Basketball — 150 Wins
  Brooklyn Nets (40) | The Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) are based at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. They played a 2019 home slate that stretched from the end of the NBA 2018-2019 regular season, through two post-season games, two pre-season games — including one at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island against the Toronto Raptors — and the start of the season now paused because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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This original New York Sports Tours shot from March 30, 2019, was taken at the final Madison Square Garden NBA game played by Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade (3), who helped lead the Heat to victory[/caption]
  New York Knicks (44) | The New York Knicks played their 2019 NBA home games and three pre-season games at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.
  New York Liberty (18) | New York's Women's National Basketball Association team played a preseason game against the China National Team at Barclays Center, then 17 regular-season WNBA games at Westchester County Center in White Plains, New York.
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New York Liberty guard Nia Nurse, here in an advertisement spotted during a New York Sports Tours outing, was the Liberty's second highest scorer in 2019[/caption]
  Long Island Nets (24) | A member of the NBA G League, the minor league Long Island Nets played their 2019 home games at the Nassau Coliseum and Barclays Center.
  Westchester Knicks (24) | The Westchester Knicks' 2019 NBA G League hone games were staged at the Westchester County Center and Madison Square Garden.
  Boxing — 180 Wins
  New York (172) | The New York sanctioned pro boxing wins include men's and women's fights at Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, Generoso Pope Athletic Complex in Brooklyn, Amazura in Queens, Sony Hall and Terminal 5 in Manhattan, and The Paramount in Huntington.
  New Jersey (8) | The 2019  northern New Jersey mens'a and women's sanctioned pro fights were  were recorded at Prudential Center in Newark.
  Bull Riding — 5 Wins
  Professional Bull Riders (5) | Professional Bull Riders (PBR) had a January 2019 Unleash the Beast tour stop at Madison Square Garden. The PBR event prize-money wins came in a "15/15 bucking battle" of 15 top riders against 15 top bulls and in five main rounds. Jess Lockwood, who won the fifth and final round, earned $118,350 for the three-day event.
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Jess Lockwood (above) was the top performer at the 2019 PBR event at Madison Square Garden[/caption]
  Esports — 255 Wins
  NBA 2K League (255) | All 255 the 2019 NBA 2K League professional basketball esports games, including those that involved a team affiliated with the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and another with the New York Knicks, were played in studio in the Long Island City section of Queens. The wins include competition in three special tournaments and the playoffs.
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Nets Gaming Crew player Wavy (above during a New York Sports Tours interview) helped lead the Brooklyn Nets affiliate to several wins in 2019[/caption]
  Football — 20 Wins
  New York Giants (10) | In their 95th NFL season, the New York Giants won two of their eight home games at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Giants won one of their two pre-season home games played at the facility.
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The New York Giants and New York Jets play their NFL home games at MelLife Stadium[/caption]
  New York Jets (10) | In 2019, the NFL's New York Jets won five times as the home team at MetLife Stadium in their eight regular season games at the stadium. The Jets split their two pre-season home games at the venue.
  Golf — 2 Wins
  The Northern Trust (1) — In 2019, the annual PGA Tour event The Northern Trust was played at Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey City, New Jersey, for the first times since 2013. The United States' Patrick Reed won the August tournament and the $1.665 million winner's prize.
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In 2019, Brooks Koepka (above) defended his PGA Championship[/caption]   PGA Championship (1) — Brooks Koepka of the United States won the 101st edition of the PGA Championship, played at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Long Island. In defending his 2018 PGA Championship title, Koepka was again awarded the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy and $1.98 million.
  Hockey — 140 Wins 
New Jersey Devils (45) | The New Jersey Devils played three preseason and 41 regular season National Hockey League (NHL) home games in 2019. The wins by the Devils and visiting teams at the Prudential Center were recorded during the 2019 segments of New Jersey's 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 schedules.
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Brooklyn's Barclays Center, one of the New York Islanders's homes in 2019, is shown on May 21, 2019[/caption]
  New York Islanders (51) | The New York Islanders 2019 home NHL schedule — over parts of two seasons — included two Stanley Cup playoff games and four preseason games. The home games were played at three separate locations: Barclays Center, Nassau Coliseum and, for a preseason game, Webster Bank Arena, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, home of the Islanders' American Hockey League affiliate Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
  New York Rangers (44) | The New York Rangers are based at Madison Square Garden. In addition to their regular season NHL home games, they played three preseason contests at the Garden.
  Horse Racing — 6,855 Wins
  Aqueduct Racetrack (825) | During the 2019 calendar year, the Aqueduct Racetrack in the Ozone Park section of Queens had another busy thoroughbred racing schedule. Its notable races included the $750,000 Wood Memorial Stakes in April, with jockey Jose Ortiz aboard winner Tacitus.
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Jockey Joel Rosario (in white helmet beneath the 10) appears aboard Sir Winston en route to Sir Winston's win in the 151st running of the Belmont Stakes[/caption]
  Belmont Park (772) | The Belmont Stakes is home to the Belmont Stakes, the oldest and third leg of thoroughbred racing's annual Triple Crown. In 2019, Sir Winston with jockey Joel Rosario won the $1.5 million race. Belmont is located in Elmont, New York, near the eastern border of Queens.
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Belmont Park is shown at the center of this aerial shot taken on October 14, 2019[/caption]
  Freehold Raceway (854) | Freehold Raceway in Freehold, New Jersey, hosts harness racing events for trotters and pacers. Established in 1853, the track was formed to host a fair with harness racing.
  Meadowlands Racetrack (1175) | A harness and thoroughbred racing track in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Meadowlands Raceway is home to the historic Hambletonian Stakes race. In 2019, Forbidden Trade, driven by Bob McClure, won the $1 million Hambeltonian.
  Monmouth Park Racetrack (648) | A thoroughbred track in Oceanport, New Jersey, Monmouth Park hosts races in the winter and summer . In 2019 at the track, the $1.01 million Haskell Invitational Stakes was won by Maximum Security with jockey Luis Saez.
  Yonkers Raceway (2581) | Founded in 1899, Yonkers Raceway is near the northern border of New York City. The track is home to many notable harness races. Gimpanzee and driver Brian Sears won the $1 million Yonkers International Trot race in 2019,
  Lacrosse — 13 Wins
  New York Lizards (8) | The Major League Lacrosse team the New York Lizards won three of its eight home games on Long Island, at Hofstra University's Stuart Stadium.
  Premier Lacrosse League (5) | Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey, hosted three regular-season Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) games in 2019 — victories by Whipsnakes LC, Archers LC and Chaos LC. The PLL, a tour-based league, held two 2019 post-season games at the arena.
  Mixed Martial Arts — 76 Wins
  Ultimate Fighting Championship (37) | Men's and women's Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bouts were held in 2019 at Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center and Prudential Center. In January 2019 at the Barclays Center, in the first event of a  long-term UFC-ESPN television deal, UFC flyweight champion Henry Cejudo defeated UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw in the headline fight.
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Henry Cejudo won the marquee UFC championship bout in January 2019 at Barclays Center[/caption]
  Professional Fighters League (39) | The 2019 Professional Fighters League (PFL) calendar included men's and women's bouts at Nassau Coliseum and the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. The theater was host to the PFL championship in December 2019.
  Road Racing — 121 Wins
  NYRR Joe Kleinerman 10K (6) | The men's and women's 2019 race winners of the 10-kilometer race, Ernest Pitone of Pennsylvania and Ana Johnson of New York City, each received prize money, as did the men's and women's winners of the 40+ and 50+ age groups . Held in January in Central Park in Manhattan, the race is named for a New York Road Runners Club (now known as NYRR) co-founder. Joe Kelinerman is credited with advancing road race age-group and women's divisions.
  NYRR Gridiron 4M (6) | Staged on the same day in February as the Super Bowl, this annual Manhattan event had a friendly football-throwing competition before the actual race. The race route is a  four-mile inner loop of Central Park. Six champions earn prize money — the men's and women's winners, and a men's and women's winner in both the 40+ and 50+ age divisions — with $500 each awarded to the men's and women's winners.
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An annual New York Road Runners race in Brooklyn is named for Al Gordon (above)[/caption]
  NYRR Al Gordon Brooklyn 4M (6) | This February event, held at Brooklyn's Prospect Park, followed the same prize money outlay as the NYRR Gridiron 4M. The race is named for former college track standout Al Gordon, a New York Road Runners (NYRR) board member who promoted running and fitness until his death at age 107.
  United Airlines NYC Half (6) | In 2019, the men's and women's winners of this annual half marathon received $20,000 each. The men's and women's wheelchair winners earned $4,000 each and the first men's and women's NYRR members $1,500 apiece. This was the first 2020 NYRR race to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
  SHAPE Women's Half Marathon (1) | The 2019 winner of this annual women's race, Ethiopia's Maseret Ali Basa, received $1,000 in prize money. More than 6,100 women finished the Central Park race.
  Run as One 4M Presented by JPMorgan Chase (13) | This annual four-mile race in Central Park raises funds and awareness for lung cancer, and supports the Thomas G. Labrecque Foundation's work to prevent the disease. Thomas G. Labrecque was chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank. Although he didn't smoke, he died of lung cancer in 2000 at age 62. In 2019, race prize money was awarded to the men's and women's winners ($750 each), the fastest men's and women's runners from each of the five New York City boroughs and one NYRR team winner.
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Mathew Kimeli wins the 2019 UAE Healthy Kidney 10K in Central Park[/caption]
  UAE Healthy Kidney 10K (4) | This annual four-mile event in Central Park started in 2005. More than 7,600 runners finished the 2019 race. Last year's men's and women's winners — Kenya's Mathew Kimeli and Ethiopia's Senbere Teferi — each received $10,000. The  fastest men's and women's NYRR members each earned $600.  
NYRR Newport Fiesta 5K (2) | Held in Jersey City, New Jersey, near New York City, this five-kilometer race debuted in 2019. The men's and women's sinners — Brooklyn's Daniel Winn and New Mexico's Gadise Fita Megersa — each received $1,000 in prize money.
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Gadise Fita Megeras win the NYRR Newport Fiesta 5K on Coney Island's boardwalk[/caption]
  Popular Brooklyn Half (4) | This annual half marathon is the world's largest, with 26,803 finishers in 2019.  Men's and women's winners Louis Serafini of Massachusetts and Feyne Gudeto Gemeda of New York City each earned $1,000. The men's and women's NYRR team champions each received $500. The Brooklyn race starts near Propsect Park and the Brooklyn Museum and finishes on Coney Island's famed boardwalk.
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Sara Hall (above) at the NYRR New York Mini 10K finish line following her 2019 win[/caption]
  NYRR New York Mini 10K and USTAF 10K Championship (4) | The United States' Sara Hall won this June 2019 women's 10-kilometer event in Central Park and received $20,000 for the win. Prize money also went to the wheelchair champion and the winners of the 40+ and 50+ age divisions. The 10-kilometer race started in 1972 in Central Park, billed as the world's first women-only road race. In 2019, the event served as the women's national 10-kilometer championship.
  NYRR Queens 10K (3) | In addition to the men's and women's champions, the first Queens resident received prize money for their June 2019 race wins. The event route was anchored by Flushing Meadows Corona Park near the site of tennis' US Open and the Mets' Citi Field. Ethiopia's Tariku Demelash Abera and New Jersey's Roberta Groner won the men's and women's divisions in the field of 11,852 finishers.
  Front Runners New York LGBT Pride Run 5M (2) | Held during Pride Month, the 38th annual race in June 2019 race in Central Park was won by and Urgesa Kedir Figa of Ethiopia and Lindsey Scherf, now an assistant track and cross country coach at New York City's Fordham University. They each won $300. Hosted by NYRR and New York City LGBT running club Front Runners New York, the event set a world record for most finishers (10,236) in a pride charity run.
  NYRR Manhattan 7 Mile (6)| In the August 2019 race with more than 5,250 finishers in Central Park, Ethiopian runners Tadesse Yae Dabi and Ayantu Dakebo Hailemaryam won the men's and women's races and $500 apiece. The top man and woman in the 40+ and 50+ age groups also received prize money.  
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Jenny Simpson participates in a sneaker distribution event at a Brooklyn public school after she won her seventh consecutive 5th Ave. Mile title[/caption]
  New Balance 5th Ave. Mile (4) | In September 2019, the United States' Jenny Simpson won her seventh consecutive women's championship in this annual mile race on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, in an event record 4:16.1. New Zealand's Willis won the men's race in 3:51.7.  Each winner received $5,000, and two NYRR champions earned prize money.  
New Balance Bronx 10 Mile (4) | This Bronx race is the fourth event in the NYRR's five-borough series, with a finish near Yankee Stadium. The 2019 men's and women's race winners — Harbert Okuti and Belaynesh Fikadu, representing Greater New York clubs Westchester Track Club and West Side Runners, respectively — earned $800 each, and the top male and female Bronx finishers $500 each.
  NYRR Staten Island Half (4) | This prize money breakdown for this half marathon in Staten Island mirrors the Bronx ten-mile race, with $800 the top cash prize and $500 to fastest male and female resident of the host borough.
  USTAF 5-Kilometer Championship (6) | Run the day before the TCS New York City Marathon, the November 2, 2019, race also served as the NYRR's Abbott Dash to the Finish Line competition. United States runners Anthony Rotich and Shannon Rowbury won the men's and women's championships, and the $12,000 first-place checks. Cash awards were also give to the fastest NYRR member man and woman and the champion male and female NYRR member teams.
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Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya wins the men's title at the 2019 New York City Marathon[/caption]
  TCS New York City Marathon (34) | In 2019, champions were crowned in 34 divisions of the world's largest marathon: men, women, United States men, United States women, age groups (14), wheelchair men, wheelchair women, hand cycle, duo team, borough men (5), borough women (5), Mayor's Cup, Foot Locker Five Borough Challenge. The Mayor's Cup is awarded to the New York Police Department or the New York Fire Department, based on the lowest total finishing times of the fastest ten representatives of each department. The Foot Locker Five Borough Challenge is a competition among five runners, one selected from each New York City borough. The five-borough marathon ends in Central Park.
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Original NYRR president Ted Corbett (right), the namesake for the annual NYRR 15-kilometer race in Central Park, poses with club president Fred Lebow at the organization's then-headquarters at 9 East 89th Street in Manhattan[/caption]
  NYRR Ted Corbitt 15K (6) | Named for pioneer ultramarathoner Ted Corbett, the first president of the New York Road Runners Club (now the NYRR), this 5-kilometer race in 2019 was held 100 years after Corbitt's birth. In 2019, the Central Park race included prize money for the men's and women's winners ($500 each) and the men's and women's winners in the 40+ ($150) and 50+ age groups ($75).
  Squash — 94 Wins
  J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions (94) |  The New York stop on the PSA World Tour is staged at Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. With a $360,000 prize money pool in 2019, the tournament was the richest on the tour outside of the PSA World Tour championship tournament. In 2019, Egypt's Ali Farag won the men's title and countrywoman Nour El Sherbin the women's crown.
  Soccer — 65 Wins
  NYC Football Club (14) | NYC Football Club, or NYCFC, the New York City member of Major League Soccer (MLS), played in home games at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field in 2019. The wins include MLS post-season and U.S. Open Cup play.
New York Red Bulls (17) | Based at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey, the New York Red Bulls followed their MLS season with a U.S. Open Cup game at northern New Jersey's Montclair State University and two CONCACAF Champions League games at Red Bull Arena.
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Red Bulls television analyst Shep Messing holds a Red Bulls soccer ball during a New York Sports Tours tour stop[/caption]
  New York Cosmos (18) | The Cosmos' 2019 competition included play in the semi-pro National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) regular season, the NPSL Members Cup and the U.S. Open Cup. Most of the Cosmos' games in Greater New York were played at the Mitchel Athletic Complex in Uniondale, New York, and Columbia University's Rocco B. Commissio Soccer Stadium (named for current Cosmos owner and Columbia graduate Rocco B. Commissio).
  Sky Blue FC (9) | The National Women's Soccer League's Sky Blue FC played its home games at Yurcak Field in Piscataway, New Jersey, and at Red Bull Arena.
  International Teams (7) | The international team wins include International Champions Cup matches at MetLife Stadium and Red Bull Arena.
  Tennis — 969 Wins
  New York Empire (7) | The New York Empire won four of its seven 2019 home matches, played at Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in the Bronx, and reached the championship match of professional tennis' eight-team World Team Tennis (WTT). At WTT events, only the final score — a total number of points for each team in men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles —  delivers a win.
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Reilly Opelka plays in the singles final of the 2019 New York Open tennis tournament[/caption]
  New York Open (55) | In the 2019 ATP Tour men's tournament at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, 28 wins were recorded in singles matches and 15 in doubles. Also included are 12 wins in the qualifying rounds. American Reilly Opelka won the tournament singles championship.
  NYJTA Bronx Open (85) | Poland's  Magda Linette won the singles championship at this final WTA Tour women's tournament before the US Open, and received $43,000 for the victory. Contested at Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, the event finished with more than seven dozen wins in singles and doubles, including qualifying matches.
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In this New York Sports Tours shot from the 2019 US Open outing, Matteo Berrettini (left) competes en route to quarterfinal singles victory over Gael Monfils at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center's Arthur Ashe Stadium[/caption]
  US Open (822) | America's Grand Slam championship in 2019 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens featured professional singles and doubles, including in wheelchair competition, and qualifying matches. Spain's Rafael Nadel and Canada's Bianca Andreescu  each received $3.85 million for their championship singles wins from the prize pool of more than $57 million.  
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Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates his 2019 US Open men's singles championship at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center[/caption]
  Ultimate  — 9 Wins
  New York Empire (6) | In 2019, the Empire was the only undefeated team in the 21-franchise American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL). The Empire's six home contests were played at Joseph F. Fusina Field in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, New York. The Empire won the  AUDL championship, finishing its season with a 15-0 record.
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Clash of Kings: Tactical Guide to Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier
Stipe Miocic is the best heavyweight the UFC has ever seen. If you have a realistic assessment of the great Fedor Emelianenko’s abilities and opposition, Miocic might well be the best heavyweight MMA has ever seen. For Miocic to take on the incumbent UFC light heavyweight champion might seem like a step down in competition from the monsters of the heavyweight division, but Daniel Cormier is no stranger to the big lads. Bigfoot Silva, Josh Barnett, Frank Mir—Cormier has thrown around some of the biggest bodies you can find, he has simply spent his last few years watching his diet a little more closely.
With Max Holloway already off the UFC 226 card due to terrifying concussion-like symptoms, and Cormier himself managing to take a tumble over a cable at the pre-fight press conference, to be an MMA fan is to be in a prolonged state of anticipation and dread ahead of the fights so I won’t test your patience with story-telling: let’s just examine the details of the match up.
The Jab or the Kick?
Daniel Cormier’s trouble against Jon Jones was largely due to Jones’s control of distance and his ability to attack Cormier from outside of Cormier’s own effective range. Though he did slip in some straight punches to the gut, Jones is a kicker at range. Stipe Miocic has a couple of inches less reach than Jones and is the same height, but while Jones’s game is entirely based around his legs, Miocic actually owns a jab.
As we examined in Eight Limbs: The Masters of Each Strike in MMA, kicking techniques are the longest usable strikes in a fight, but a kicker makes sacrifices in his balance and movement as he plants his pivoting leg and takes his striking leg off the ground. They are powerful but limiting and considerable maneuvering must be done between kicks to set each one up and ensure correct distancing so that the opponent cannot simply run through it with a right straight or takedown attempt.
Because the act of kicking means removing a foot from the floor and locking yourself in one place, the danger of the opponent simply smashing straight into the kicking fighter is ever present. For this reason, straight line kicks wherein the path of the kick occupies the space between the two combatants are considered safer. Side kicks and front kicks have a little more room for error than round kicks if all the opponent wants to do is rush straight up the center. Change the target to be the opponent’s nearest limb—the lead leg—and you will understand why side kicks and oblique kicks to the knee have become so valuable to strikers in MMA. They are very low risk even if the reward isn’t always as great as slamming a roundhouse kick into the opponent’s midsection or head.
But even in the safest of kicks, a fighter cannot change the fact that only one foot is on the floor. From his stance a fighter’s feet ferry him across the mat but during a kick the pivoting foot acts more as an anchor, pinning him in place. For an infamous example of that, Jon Jones’s mistimed oblique kick at Alexander Gustafsson’s restless lead leg led to him being taken down for the first time in his career.
Striking with the fists will always carry the advantage that, while punches carry less thud than a strike from the lower limbs, the feet are planted throughout the entire process. Where kicks are long, powerful and unstable, punches are shorter, weaker, but stable. Good hitting is done by involving the entire bodyweight, building kinetic chains from floor to jaw, but a fighter can just as easily flick out his hands in one direction while moving his feet and body in a completely different one. T.J. Dillashaw, for instance, flicks out partial punches while his feet carry him to new positions, then drives up from the floor when he wants to hit with some spite.
Not all punches need to be connected with the movement of the feet and that is where Stipe Miocic’s jab comes in. Miocic can step in on his jab and shake a man to his boots if it connects, but his ends are better served by feinting and flicking the jab out there, a piston from the shoulder and elbow rather than the hips and legs. Pumping shoulder feints and stepping in afterwards to connect legitimate jabs is the mark of someone who actually understands how the jab works. Watch Georges St-Pierre or Robert Whittaker stutter-step into their jabs and you will see how it throws off even the best fighters in MMA.
The jab could be Daniel Cormier’s worst nightmare in this fight. It is lengthy and fast and versatile enough to build off of when he goes into his overcommitted defensive sways. Miocic has a limited set of weapons on the feet but usually goes to his jab to tease out reactions from his opponent and then capitalize on them. Lack of reaction, of course, means it is high time to be force-feeding the opponent the right hand, but against dangerous opponents who are working on a hair trigger, Miocic will play with their expectations.
Francis Ngannou dropped his weight and set his feet wide to swing his counter punches—this was especially noticeable when he moved in a very high, narrow stance and dropped into a long stance to strike back in his early UFC fights. Miocic would show a shoulder feint or slight level change to simulate a jab, Ngannou would begin a counter swing and then rethink it, and then Miocic would punt the flustered giant’s lead leg as he returned to guard.
Single- and double-jabbing Cormier into his backwards or sideways lean—as he showed against Jon Jones and Volkan Oezdemir—would be a great time to drop the right hand on him. Oezdemir repeatedly caught Cormier with short left hands as the light heavyweight champ leaned out to his right.
Countering the Level Change
Yet Daniel Cormier’s most dangerous tactic will always be changing levels and picking up the high crotch single. The standard response in every fans mind will be “uppercut,” because they have seen dozens of effective counter uppercuts and knees against level changes. Jose Aldo vs. Manny Gamburyan is the one scorched into this writer’s mind. But there is danger in attempting to counter the level change with the uppercut as Miocic himself demonstrated against Ngannou.
The uppercut is a very powerful, but limited, weapon; it does not simply cover everywhere the opponent can put their head when it drops below shoulder height. Ngannou fired the right uppercut every time Miocic threatened to step in and after connecting one good one, it simply stopped working. Miocic would level change with his head off to Ngannou’s right side and suddenly Ngannou’s punching path would intersect with nothing.
This was something that Cus D’amato was acutely aware of. It isn’t the case that you can slip or level change, you can do both at the same time. Any time Mike Tyson dipped below his opponent’s shoulder level he would usually slip to left or right as well, or immediately after his initial level change. While Miocic slipped to the inside of Ngannou’s uppercut, he could just as readily have slipped towards the elbow side and attempted takedowns with his head outside Ngannou’s right hip. You will notice in this clip that Miocic, trapped on the fence, expects a right uppercut and both ducks and slips off to the side, avoiding the horizontal right swing that comes instead.
A safer option exists when using the same weapon to counter level changes, and it was demonstrated well by Takanori Gomi all the way back at PRIDE Bushido 9. During that lightweight grand prix, Gomi ran through Tatsuya Kawajiri and Luiz Azeredo in the same night, showing pressure and body shots like MMA fans had never seen. When he met Azeredo, Gomi walked him to the ropes constantly and after he had dinged the Brazilian’s chin with a hook, Azeredo began ducking for takedowns. Rather than swing wildly for Azeredo’s head, Gomi uppercutted lower, smashing his right hand into Azeredo’s chest and midriff each time he ducked in. Even if Azeredo plowed forward, Gomi’s elbow was still on the inside and he had an underhook with which to apply some control.
There are two types of level change—whether we are talking boxing or wrestling. There are level changes that hinge at the waist and level changes in which the back remains relatively upright and the legs do the work (whether that be by squatting down or dropping a knee into the mat). Cormier and Miocic both change level at the waist in most of their bouts. This style of level change presents the chest to the uppercut in a manner which it would be impossible to strike with that weapon at any other point in the fight. We also know that Cormier will tire when hammered with attrition strikes like low kicks and body shots because Jon Jones exhausted him in their first fight this way and was on his way to doing it in their second fight.
The Mummy Guard
For Cormier, the fight seems to come down to whether he can get his shots in on Miocic’s hips and whether he can run through his usual sequence of attacks off the high crotch with the same effectiveness. In terms of his ability on the feet, Cormier will probably never be anyone’s favorite striker but as herky jerky as he looks he is at least comfortable.
The gaping hole in Miocic’s game is that he scarcely uses a left hook and ends combinations with his right hand, completely exposed to a counter. Most coaches stress the importance of “closing the door” with the left hook or jab to return a fighter to his guard while striking the entire time, but Miocic swings for the fences with his right hand and forgets about his left after it has done the groundwork for his right. A good left hook off the level change or off the jab could turn Miocic’s head around, and Cormier was happy to hook off the jab against both Jones and Oezdemir.
Against Oezdemir, Cormier’s bizarre mummy guard seemed to have him flirting with danger at all points until he got the takedown, but there’s some science behind this rather ugly method of fighting. With his right hand high to palm Oezdemir’s jab, Cormier moved in behind his extended left arm and attempted to put it over Oezdemir’s shoulder.
This movement raises Cormier’s lead shoulder as the stonewall does in boxing and the long guard does in Muay Thai, something which is partly undone by Cormier continuing to hold his chin high, but it also obstructs the path of Oezdemir’s right hand. In bareknuckle times this was called "barring" a right hand, Edwin Haislet referred to it as a "leverage guard." It’s hideous, but it makes striking awkward and that is really all DC needs to do.
Here DC’s extended right arm bars Oezdemir’s left.
As a bonus, reaching over the opponent’s lead shoulder has no offensive applications in boxing, but for an Olympic medalist in wrestling fighting in MMA, the collar tie is right there for Cormier to reach out and take. While Cormier can look to advance his grips off this control, he also does some of his best hitting with the uppercut from a single collar tie.
Cormier’s reaching for his opponent’s punches is often criticized, but Jack Johnson and George Foreman made careers out of it in boxing. The hands forward "mummy" style of fighting obstructs the opponent’s fastest punches—the straights—and they are forced to swing around if they hope to sneak a blow in. Circular blows are slower and can be ducked.
By checking both of his opponent’s hands, Cormier can shut down his quickest offensive options. Many opponents react by trying to free their hands or drawing them into their body, and this allows Cormier to score with his own punches.
Like the great Jack Johnson, Cormier can catch his opponents out by switching from a purely stifling use of his hands to a quick, straight-forward attack with his hands.
(For more on Johnson’s style, watch this video.)
In addition to Miocic’s tendency to leave himself exposed after throwing his right hand, and Cormier’s wrestling advantage on paper, Miocic also struggles with pace. Miocic put the pace on Francis Ngannou and Junior dos Santos (in their first fight) but hardly looked fresh as a daisy in the third, fourth, and fifth rounds. There is decent cardio for a heavyweight, and then there is decent cardio for any other division in the sport. If Cormier can enter on clinches and work from there as he did in the first round against Oezdemir, it is quite conceivable that he could tire Miocic out without taking much damage. If Miocic can be drained significantly, Cormier might well move Miocic into position along the fence and open up with knees and uppercuts as he did against Frank Mir.
One of the downsides of the hands-extended, mummy-style guard is that it doesn’t account for a shin bone sweeping up and cracking you from the side to the body or head. In boxing, you would have a check on both the opponent’s weapons; in MMA the opponent still has two limbs which he can use with impunity. Fortunately, Stipe Miocic isn’t a very dexterous kicker. If Miocic could commit to throwing a few high kicks as Cormier ducks, he might be able to convince Cormier to move more cautiously even if he doesn’t score a spectacular high kick knockout. Meanwhile Cormier has always been able to throw a hard kick even if it isn’t always with textbook form. As Cormier is the man more likely to be hunting the clinches and the takedowns, he might as well try to get some low kicks in to slow Miocic down without worrying about being taken down.
Daniel Cormier would be doing something truly remarkable if he succeeded in taking the UFC heavyweight title, and Stipe Miocic might just be the right kind of fighter for him to do it against. Cormier’s ugly striking is best against straight hitting, non-kickers, which is a perfect description of Miocic. But Cormier’s over-extensions and deep leans can cost him against fighters who build off set ups and can feint decently: things which Miocic has been known to do. Additionally we just don’t know what Miocic can do if Cormier grabs a hold of him. The interest in a Cain Velasquez match hinged around Velasquez’s gas tank and relentless wrestling, Cormier might not have quite the same intensity and pace as Velasquez but he’s the next best thing.
Something interesting is bound to happen at UFC 226 and whether it’s another defense for King Stipe, or Daniel Cormier walking off into the sunset with both belts draped over his shoulders, we will be breaking down the finer points on Monday.
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Clash of Kings: Tactical Guide to Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier
Stipe Miocic is the best heavyweight the UFC has ever seen. If you have a realistic assessment of the great Fedor Emelianenko’s abilities and opposition, Miocic might well be the best heavyweight MMA has ever seen. For Miocic to take on the incumbent UFC light heavyweight champion might seem like a step down in competition from the monsters of the heavyweight division, but Daniel Cormier is no stranger to the big lads. Bigfoot Silva, Josh Barnett, Frank Mir—Cormier has thrown around some of the biggest bodies you can find, he has simply spent his last few years watching his diet a little more closely.
With Max Holloway already off the UFC 226 card due to terrifying concussion-like symptoms, and Cormier himself managing to take a tumble over a cable at the pre-fight press conference, to be an MMA fan is to be in a prolonged state of anticipation and dread ahead of the fights so I won’t test your patience with story-telling: let’s just examine the details of the match up.
The Jab or the Kick?
Daniel Cormier’s trouble against Jon Jones was largely due to Jones’s control of distance and his ability to attack Cormier from outside of Cormier’s own effective range. Though he did slip in some straight punches to the gut, Jones is a kicker at range. Stipe Miocic has a couple of inches less reach than Jones and is the same height, but while Jones’s game is entirely based around his legs, Miocic actually owns a jab.
As we examined in Eight Limbs: The Masters of Each Strike in MMA, kicking techniques are the longest usable strikes in a fight, but a kicker makes sacrifices in his balance and movement as he plants his pivoting leg and takes his striking leg off the ground. They are powerful but limiting and considerable maneuvering must be done between kicks to set each one up and ensure correct distancing so that the opponent cannot simply run through it with a right straight or takedown attempt.
Because the act of kicking means removing a foot from the floor and locking yourself in one place, the danger of the opponent simply smashing straight into the kicking fighter is ever present. For this reason, straight line kicks wherein the path of the kick occupies the space between the two combatants are considered safer. Side kicks and front kicks have a little more room for error than round kicks if all the opponent wants to do is rush straight up the center. Change the target to be the opponent’s nearest limb—the lead leg—and you will understand why side kicks and oblique kicks to the knee have become so valuable to strikers in MMA. They are very low risk even if the reward isn’t always as great as slamming a roundhouse kick into the opponent’s midsection or head.
But even in the safest of kicks, a fighter cannot change the fact that only one foot is on the floor. From his stance a fighter’s feet ferry him across the mat but during a kick the pivoting foot acts more as an anchor, pinning him in place. For an infamous example of that, Jon Jones’s mistimed oblique kick at Alexander Gustafsson’s restless lead leg led to him being taken down for the first time in his career.
Striking with the fists will always carry the advantage that, while punches carry less thud than a strike from the lower limbs, the feet are planted throughout the entire process. Where kicks are long, powerful and unstable, punches are shorter, weaker, but stable. Good hitting is done by involving the entire bodyweight, building kinetic chains from floor to jaw, but a fighter can just as easily flick out his hands in one direction while moving his feet and body in a completely different one. T.J. Dillashaw, for instance, flicks out partial punches while his feet carry him to new positions, then drives up from the floor when he wants to hit with some spite.
Not all punches need to be connected with the movement of the feet and that is where Stipe Miocic’s jab comes in. Miocic can step in on his jab and shake a man to his boots if it connects, but his ends are better served by feinting and flicking the jab out there, a piston from the shoulder and elbow rather than the hips and legs. Pumping shoulder feints and stepping in afterwards to connect legitimate jabs is the mark of someone who actually understands how the jab works. Watch Georges St-Pierre or Robert Whittaker stutter-step into their jabs and you will see how it throws off even the best fighters in MMA.
The jab could be Daniel Cormier’s worst nightmare in this fight. It is lengthy and fast and versatile enough to build off of when he goes into his overcommitted defensive sways. Miocic has a limited set of weapons on the feet but usually goes to his jab to tease out reactions from his opponent and then capitalize on them. Lack of reaction, of course, means it is high time to be force-feeding the opponent the right hand, but against dangerous opponents who are working on a hair trigger, Miocic will play with their expectations.
Francis Ngannou dropped his weight and set his feet wide to swing his counter punches—this was especially noticeable when he moved in a very high, narrow stance and dropped into a long stance to strike back in his early UFC fights. Miocic would show a shoulder feint or slight level change to simulate a jab, Ngannou would begin a counter swing and then rethink it, and then Miocic would punt the flustered giant’s lead leg as he returned to guard.
Single- and double-jabbing Cormier into his backwards or sideways lean—as he showed against Jon Jones and Volkan Oezdemir—would be a great time to drop the right hand on him. Oezdemir repeatedly caught Cormier with short left hands as the light heavyweight champ leaned out to his right.
Countering the Level Change
Yet Daniel Cormier’s most dangerous tactic will always be changing levels and picking up the high crotch single. The standard response in every fans mind will be “uppercut,” because they have seen dozens of effective counter uppercuts and knees against level changes. Jose Aldo vs. Manny Gamburyan is the one scorched into this writer’s mind. But there is danger in attempting to counter the level change with the uppercut as Miocic himself demonstrated against Ngannou.
The uppercut is a very powerful, but limited, weapon; it does not simply cover everywhere the opponent can put their head when it drops below shoulder height. Ngannou fired the right uppercut every time Miocic threatened to step in and after connecting one good one, it simply stopped working. Miocic would level change with his head off to Ngannou’s right side and suddenly Ngannou’s punching path would intersect with nothing.
This was something that Cus D’amato was acutely aware of. It isn’t the case that you can slip or level change, you can do both at the same time. Any time Mike Tyson dipped below his opponent’s shoulder level he would usually slip to left or right as well, or immediately after his initial level change. While Miocic slipped to the inside of Ngannou’s uppercut, he could just as readily have slipped towards the elbow side and attempted takedowns with his head outside Ngannou’s right hip. You will notice in this clip that Miocic, trapped on the fence, expects a right uppercut and both ducks and slips off to the side, avoiding the horizontal right swing that comes instead.
A safer option exists when using the same weapon to counter level changes, and it was demonstrated well by Takanori Gomi all the way back at PRIDE Bushido 9. During that lightweight grand prix, Gomi ran through Tatsuya Kawajiri and Luiz Azeredo in the same night, showing pressure and body shots like MMA fans had never seen. When he met Azeredo, Gomi walked him to the ropes constantly and after he had dinged the Brazilian’s chin with a hook, Azeredo began ducking for takedowns. Rather than swing wildly for Azeredo’s head, Gomi uppercutted lower, smashing his right hand into Azeredo’s chest and midriff each time he ducked in. Even if Azeredo plowed forward, Gomi’s elbow was still on the inside and he had an underhook with which to apply some control.
There are two types of level change—whether we are talking boxing or wrestling. There are level changes that hinge at the waist and level changes in which the back remains relatively upright and the legs do the work (whether that be by squatting down or dropping a knee into the mat). Cormier and Miocic both change level at the waist in most of their bouts. This style of level change presents the chest to the uppercut in a manner which it would be impossible to strike with that weapon at any other point in the fight. We also know that Cormier will tire when hammered with attrition strikes like low kicks and body shots because Jon Jones exhausted him in their first fight this way and was on his way to doing it in their second fight.
The Mummy Guard
For Cormier, the fight seems to come down to whether he can get his shots in on Miocic’s hips and whether he can run through his usual sequence of attacks off the high crotch with the same effectiveness. In terms of his ability on the feet, Cormier will probably never be anyone’s favorite striker but as herky jerky as he looks he is at least comfortable.
The gaping hole in Miocic’s game is that he scarcely uses a left hook and ends combinations with his right hand, completely exposed to a counter. Most coaches stress the importance of “closing the door” with the left hook or jab to return a fighter to his guard while striking the entire time, but Miocic swings for the fences with his right hand and forgets about his left after it has done the groundwork for his right. A good left hook off the level change or off the jab could turn Miocic’s head around, and Cormier was happy to hook off the jab against both Jones and Oezdemir.
Against Oezdemir, Cormier’s bizarre mummy guard seemed to have him flirting with danger at all points until he got the takedown, but there’s some science behind this rather ugly method of fighting. With his right hand high to palm Oezdemir’s jab, Cormier moved in behind his extended left arm and attempted to put it over Oezdemir’s shoulder.
This movement raises Cormier’s lead shoulder as the stonewall does in boxing and the long guard does in Muay Thai, something which is partly undone by Cormier continuing to hold his chin high, but it also obstructs the path of Oezdemir’s right hand. In bareknuckle times this was called “barring” a right hand, Edwin Haislet referred to it as a “leverage guard.” It’s hideous, but it makes striking awkward and that is really all DC needs to do.
Here DC’s extended right arm bars Oezdemir’s left.
As a bonus, reaching over the opponent’s lead shoulder has no offensive applications in boxing, but for an Olympic medalist in wrestling fighting in MMA, the collar tie is right there for Cormier to reach out and take. While Cormier can look to advance his grips off this control, he also does some of his best hitting with the uppercut from a single collar tie.
Cormier’s reaching for his opponent’s punches is often criticized, but Jack Johnson and George Foreman made careers out of it in boxing. The hands forward “mummy” style of fighting obstructs the opponent’s fastest punches—the straights—and they are forced to swing around if they hope to sneak a blow in. Circular blows are slower and can be ducked.
By checking both of his opponent’s hands, Cormier can shut down his quickest offensive options. Many opponents react by trying to free their hands or drawing them into their body, and this allows Cormier to score with his own punches.
Like the great Jack Johnson, Cormier can catch his opponents out by switching from a purely stifling use of his hands to a quick, straight-forward attack with his hands.
(For more on Johnson’s style, watch this video.)
In addition to Miocic’s tendency to leave himself exposed after throwing his right hand, and Cormier’s wrestling advantage on paper, Miocic also struggles with pace. Miocic put the pace on Francis Ngannou and Junior dos Santos (in their first fight) but hardly looked fresh as a daisy in the third, fourth, and fifth rounds. There is decent cardio for a heavyweight, and then there is decent cardio for any other division in the sport. If Cormier can enter on clinches and work from there as he did in the first round against Oezdemir, it is quite conceivable that he could tire Miocic out without taking much damage. If Miocic can be drained significantly, Cormier might well move Miocic into position along the fence and open up with knees and uppercuts as he did against Frank Mir.
One of the downsides of the hands-extended, mummy-style guard is that it doesn’t account for a shin bone sweeping up and cracking you from the side to the body or head. In boxing, you would have a check on both the opponent’s weapons; in MMA the opponent still has two limbs which he can use with impunity. Fortunately, Stipe Miocic isn’t a very dexterous kicker. If Miocic could commit to throwing a few high kicks as Cormier ducks, he might be able to convince Cormier to move more cautiously even if he doesn’t score a spectacular high kick knockout. Meanwhile Cormier has always been able to throw a hard kick even if it isn’t always with textbook form. As Cormier is the man more likely to be hunting the clinches and the takedowns, he might as well try to get some low kicks in to slow Miocic down without worrying about being taken down.
Daniel Cormier would be doing something truly remarkable if he succeeded in taking the UFC heavyweight title, and Stipe Miocic might just be the right kind of fighter for him to do it against. Cormier’s ugly striking is best against straight hitting, non-kickers, which is a perfect description of Miocic. But Cormier’s over-extensions and deep leans can cost him against fighters who build off set ups and can feint decently: things which Miocic has been known to do. Additionally we just don’t know what Miocic can do if Cormier grabs a hold of him. The interest in a Cain Velasquez match hinged around Velasquez’s gas tank and relentless wrestling, Cormier might not have quite the same intensity and pace as Velasquez but he’s the next best thing.
Something interesting is bound to happen at UFC 226 and whether it’s another defense for King Stipe, or Daniel Cormier walking off into the sunset with both belts draped over his shoulders, we will be breaking down the finer points on Monday.
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lusitanostud · 7 years ago
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Lusitanos that will live up to expectations and why: our yearlings
Performance matters, no matter what the breed.
Breed type matters for both breed characteristics and temperament.
A strong lineage is the best insurance that one can get when buying a dressage prospect.
We all love the Lusitano for it ability to collect, to perform high-school movements and its temperament.  But we also know that not all Lusitanos are created equal.
In Europe right now, there is a line of Lusitanos that are successfully competing in the Northern EU dressage arena. These Lusitanos are endowed with gaits that are spectacular.  Not only with a lot of knee but with extension also.  Because they are Lusitanos and have maintained breed type, they also naturally round and drive from behind. Because of that drive, they have the ability for collection, and an athleticism rarely found in the in WB breeds.  Their walk and canter benefit from this ability to collect also.  These gaits, combined the mind and breed type of the Lusitano make a powerful combination. Unfortunately, these lines are poorly represented in the USA. 
In 2015, we imported semen from the stallion Soberano- the best of the best from these lines.  The video below of Soberano is one of my favorites: 
 If you haven’t seen Soberano’s performance at the WEG in Normandy in 2014, please watch it – you are in for a treat.  Watch: 
We have two Soberano stallions (yearlings) from this breeding, that we have let grow up a little and we are now ready to sell one of them.  Both are talented, athletic, with great minds and are serious Grand Prix potential horses. Soberano –     *His Sire: Hostil (see below)
**Grandsire Xaquiro 
**Grandsire Zico
Soberano represents the best of these lines.  Soberano was shown in the International Grandprix level, at the WEG in 2014, and has very high scores in international Grand Prix.
Soberano – Prizes: 1st, Gold Medal and Champion of Champions, Golega Horse Fair 2002, 3 years old class; 1st, Gold Medal and Champion of Champions, Golegã Horse Fair 2003, 4 years old ridden class. APSL Recommended stallion.
Soberano is over 17 hands and passes that height onto his offspring.
As examples of what Soberano produces,  see: Csar, a Grandprix level horse ridden by Pedro Torres  ,
and Cesar D Atela 
 Soberano’s brother is Rico. Rico was ridden by Kyro Kyklund in the UK. See his dressage test here:
 Soberano’s sire is Hostil: the Godfather of the dressage Lusitano.  Hostil is one of seven Stallions of Merit in the World.
Other relatives have excelled not only in dressage but also in working equitation. 
Here is close cousin of Soberano: Bariloche (Rouxinol-Hostil) Recommended Licensed Lusitano Stallion, shown at Grand Prix level. 
 Our two yearlings (coming two year olds) have fantastic dam lineages as well.
 Mercury CAL’s dam is B-Caranja (16.1 hands).  She is a Brazilian mare, from the Interagro stud. Caranja’s sire is Nordeste. Nordeste is also a recommended stallion by the APSL, with a score of 77.50 points. An outstandingly beautiful black stallion, Nordeste was bred by Mr. Manuel Braga from Sociedade das Silveiras.  Before being exported to Brazil from Portugal, he won a number of tests at the Prix St. Georges level, and produced a populous crop of superior quality offspring, both at Sociedade das Silveiras and at several other Portuguese breeders.   
Marialva CAL’s dam is Haute Tantra Cal (16.2 hands), APSL approved.  Video below is of Tantra as a yearling.  Tantra has done well in the breed show ring, winning her mare class at the Eastern Regional Lusitano Horse show in 2014.
  Daughter of Caranja (see breeding above) and her sire is Rumbero.  Rumbero is a 16.2 hand, APSL approved, homozygous black Lusitano stallion, bred in Portugal by  Pablo Caetano.  Some of his siblings can be seen at the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art.  His sire, Altivo, was trained for bullfighting and had a good career.  Altivos’s APSL revision score was 81.  Here is a video of Rumbero, who was shown at Pre Saint George, Marialva's sire: 
As you move forward in making the life changing decision of buying the horse of your dreams.  Ask yourself… why?  If your answer is that you are truly looking for a horse with the potential for competitive dressage, classical dressage or working equitation that is beyond what you would expect in a Lusitano, these colts may be for you.  If you are looking for a Lusitano that will be competitive with almost any warmblood in the USA, then we encourage you to apply for ownership of one of these very special horses.   
Take some time to watch all these videos of very close relatives (sire to the two yearlings we have for sale.  These yearlings are result of careful breeding to produce the best Lusitano dressage horses possible.  Then ask yourself, what are you waiting for?  The Lusitanos: 
Mercury CAL was born in April 25, 2016.  Grey (Black base).  Gorgeous, up-headed, elegant yearling.  Will be over 17 hands (17.2+/-), with fantastic gaits and conformation. APSL inscribed/IALHA registered. Halter trained, sensitive temperament. Grand Prix or master's working equitation candidate.  He is friendly, loves people and is trusting.  This colt is truly a stallion prospect. $15,00.00 USD
 Marialva CAL was born June 9, 2016 and will be 16+ hands, with fantastic gaits and conformation with excellent breed type.  APSL inscribed/IALHA registered.  Advanced dressage (Grand Prix) or working equitation candidate.  This is a fantastic grand prix candidate and a horse for the serious amateur or the professional.  His gaits are fantastic and his trot has both lift and extension.  He is extremely up-headed.  His personality is friendly and trusting. $14,500.00 The video below shows Marialva last summer.  
 Mercury and Rio (Marialva) have been together since weaning.  They are halter broken, love people, are interactive, have been trailored, up to date on vaccinations, and Coggins.  Soon they will be ready for some light ground work – as their two year birthdates are in 2018.  
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cieloazure · 7 years ago
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Lusitanos that will live up to expectations and why: our yearlings
Performance matters, no matter what the breed.
Breed type matters for both breed characteristics and temperament.
A strong lineage is the best insurance that one can get when buying a dressage prospect.
We all love the Lusitano for it ability to collect, to perform high-school movements and its temperament.  But we also know that not all Lusitanos are created equal.
In Europe right now, there is a line of Lusitanos that are successfully competing in the Northern EU dressage arena. These Lusitanos are endowed with gaits that are spectacular.  Not only with a lot of knee but with extension also.  Because they are Lusitanos and have maintained breed type, they also naturally round and drive from behind. Because of that drive, they have the ability for collection, and an athleticism rarely found in the in WB breeds.  Their walk and canter benefit from this ability to collect also.  These gaits, combined the mind and breed type of the Lusitano make a powerful combination. Unfortunately, these lines are poorly represented in the USA. 
In 2015, we imported semen from the stallion Soberano- the best of the best from these lines.  The video below of Soberano is one of my favorites: 
 If you haven’t seen Soberano’s performance at the WEG in Normandy in 2014, please watch it – you are in for a treat.  Watch: 
We have two Soberano stallions (yearlings) from this breeding, that we have let grow up a little and we are now ready to sell one of them.  Both are talented, athletic, with great minds and are serious Grand Prix potential horses. Soberano –     *His Sire: Hostil (see below)
**Grandsire Xaquiro 
**Grandsire Zico
Soberano represents the best of these lines.  Soberano was shown in the International Grandprix level, at the WEG in 2014, and has very high scores in international Grand Prix.
Soberano – Prizes: 1st, Gold Medal and Champion of Champions, Golega Horse Fair 2002, 3 years old class; 1st, Gold Medal and Champion of Champions, Golegã Horse Fair 2003, 4 years old ridden class. APSL Recommended stallion.
Soberano is over 17 hands and passes that height onto his offspring.
As examples of what Soberano produces,  see: Csar, a Grandprix level horse ridden by Pedro Torres  ,
and Cesar D Atela 
 Soberano’s brother is Rico. Rico was ridden by Kyro Kyklund in the UK. See his dressage test here:
 Soberano’s sire is Hostil: the Godfather of the dressage Lusitano.  Hostil is one of seven Stallions of Merit in the World.
Other relatives have excelled not only in dressage but also in working equitation. 
Here is close cousin of Soberano: Bariloche (Rouxinol-Hostil) Recommended Licensed Lusitano Stallion, shown at Grand Prix level. 
 Our two yearlings (coming two year olds) have fantastic dam lineages as well.
 Mercury CAL’s dam is B-Caranja (16.1 hands).  She is a Brazilian mare, from the Interagro stud. Caranja’s sire is Nordeste. Nordeste is also a recommended stallion by the APSL, with a score of 77.50 points. An outstandingly beautiful black stallion, Nordeste was bred by Mr. Manuel Braga from Sociedade das Silveiras.  Before being exported to Brazil from Portugal, he won a number of tests at the Prix St. Georges level, and produced a populous crop of superior quality offspring, both at Sociedade das Silveiras and at several other Portuguese breeders.   
Marialva CAL’s dam is Haute Tantra Cal (16.2 hands), APSL approved.  Video below is of Tantra as a yearling.  Tantra has done well in the breed show ring, winning her mare class at the Eastern Regional Lusitano Horse show in 2014.
  Daughter of Caranja (see breeding above) and her sire is Rumbero.  Rumbero is a 16.2 hand, APSL approved, homozygous black Lusitano stallion, bred in Portugal by  Pablo Caetano.  Some of his siblings can be seen at the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art.  His sire, Altivo, was trained for bullfighting and had a good career.  Altivos’s APSL revision score was 81.  Here is a video of Rumbero, who was shown at Pre Saint George, Marialva's sire: 
As you move forward in making the life changing decision of buying the horse of your dreams.  Ask yourself… why?  If your answer is that you are truly looking for a horse with the potential for competitive dressage, classical dressage or working equitation that is beyond what you would expect in a Lusitano, these colts may be for you.  If you are looking for a Lusitano that will be competitive with almost any warmblood in the USA, then we encourage you to apply for ownership of one of these very special horses.   
Take some time to watch all these videos of very close relatives (sire to the two yearlings we have for sale.  These yearlings are result of careful breeding to produce the best Lusitano dressage horses possible.  Then ask yourself, what are you waiting for?  The Lusitanos: 
Mercury CAL was born in April 25, 2016.  Grey (Black base).  Gorgeous, up-headed, elegant yearling.  Will be over 17 hands (17.2+/-), with fantastic gaits and conformation. APSL inscribed/IALHA registered. Halter trained, sensitive temperament. Grand Prix or master's working equitation candidate.  He is friendly, loves people and is trusting.  This colt is truly a stallion prospect. $15,00.00 USD
 Marialva CAL was born June 9, 2016 and will be 16+ hands, with fantastic gaits and conformation with excellent breed type.  APSL inscribed/IALHA registered.  Advanced dressage (Grand Prix) or working equitation candidate.  This is a fantastic grand prix candidate and a horse for the serious amateur or the professional.  His gaits are fantastic and his trot has both lift and extension.  He is extremely up-headed.  His personality is friendly and trusting. $14,500.00 The video below shows Marialva last summer.  
 Mercury and Rio (Marialva) have been together since weaning.  They are halter broken, love people, are interactive, have been trailored, up to date on vaccinations, and Coggins.  Soon they will be ready for some light ground work – as their two year birthdates are in 2018.  
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‪Exciting day as one of Spain’s Olympic riders came to view this PSG/GP prospect, a 171 cm / 17hh PRE dressage horse of prestigious origins, together with a very lovely British lady and her husband. This PRE stallion has lots of power but still easy to ride for an experienced amateur dressage rider.‬ He is also approved for breeding. Photo by CavalReal, All Rights Reserved.
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Ambicioso VG is a super functional son of Spanish Grand Champion stallion Fer Bulería. Ambicioso VG is competing very successfully in FEI dressage in Spain. Here you can see him practicing a pirouette, part of this Prix St George / Grand Prix routine. 
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PRE Dressage Breeding
Another good example of Fer Bulería offspring that we really like is the super functional PRE stallion Ambicioso VG from Yeguada Velasco Gonzales, born 2009. Very beautiful, of true Spanish type, exceptional movements and with tremendous energy, he has great Prix St George / Grand Prix potential.
Here are some photos from a training session a while back, while preparing for a competition. For more photos from this session, go here.
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Clash of Kings: Tactical Guide to Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier
Stipe Miocic is the best heavyweight the UFC has ever seen. If you have a realistic assessment of the great Fedor Emelianenko’s abilities and opposition, Miocic might well be the best heavyweight MMA has ever seen. For Miocic to take on the incumbent UFC light heavyweight champion might seem like a step down in competition from the monsters of the heavyweight division, but Daniel Cormier is no stranger to the big lads. Bigfoot Silva, Josh Barnett, Frank Mir—Cormier has thrown around some of the biggest bodies you can find, he has simply spent his last few years watching his diet a little more closely.
With Max Holloway already off the UFC 226 card due to terrifying concussion-like symptoms, and Cormier himself managing to take a tumble over a cable at the pre-fight press conference, to be an MMA fan is to be in a prolonged state of anticipation and dread ahead of the fights so I won’t test your patience with story-telling: let’s just examine the details of the match up.
The Jab or the Kick?
Daniel Cormier’s trouble against Jon Jones was largely due to Jones’s control of distance and his ability to attack Cormier from outside of Cormier’s own effective range. Though he did slip in some straight punches to the gut, Jones is a kicker at range. Stipe Miocic has a couple of inches less reach than Jones and is the same height, but while Jones’s game is entirely based around his legs, Miocic actually owns a jab.
As we examined in Eight Limbs: The Masters of Each Strike in MMA, kicking techniques are the longest usable strikes in a fight, but a kicker makes sacrifices in his balance and movement as he plants his pivoting leg and takes his striking leg off the ground. They are powerful but limiting and considerable maneuvering must be done between kicks to set each one up and ensure correct distancing so that the opponent cannot simply run through it with a right straight or takedown attempt.
Because the act of kicking means removing a foot from the floor and locking yourself in one place, the danger of the opponent simply smashing straight into the kicking fighter is ever present. For this reason, straight line kicks wherein the path of the kick occupies the space between the two combatants are considered safer. Side kicks and front kicks have a little more room for error than round kicks if all the opponent wants to do is rush straight up the center. Change the target to be the opponent’s nearest limb—the lead leg—and you will understand why side kicks and oblique kicks to the knee have become so valuable to strikers in MMA. They are very low risk even if the reward isn’t always as great as slamming a roundhouse kick into the opponent’s midsection or head.
But even in the safest of kicks, a fighter cannot change the fact that only one foot is on the floor. From his stance a fighter’s feet ferry him across the mat but during a kick the pivoting foot acts more as an anchor, pinning him in place. For an infamous example of that, Jon Jones’s mistimed oblique kick at Alexander Gustafsson’s restless lead leg led to him being taken down for the first time in his career.
Striking with the fists will always carry the advantage that, while punches carry less thud than a strike from the lower limbs, the feet are planted throughout the entire process. Where kicks are long, powerful and unstable, punches are shorter, weaker, but stable. Good hitting is done by involving the entire bodyweight, building kinetic chains from floor to jaw, but a fighter can just as easily flick out his hands in one direction while moving his feet and body in a completely different one. T.J. Dillashaw, for instance, flicks out partial punches while his feet carry him to new positions, then drives up from the floor when he wants to hit with some spite.
Not all punches need to be connected with the movement of the feet and that is where Stipe Miocic’s jab comes in. Miocic can step in on his jab and shake a man to his boots if it connects, but his ends are better served by feinting and flicking the jab out there, a piston from the shoulder and elbow rather than the hips and legs. Pumping shoulder feints and stepping in afterwards to connect legitimate jabs is the mark of someone who actually understands how the jab works. Watch Georges St-Pierre or Robert Whittaker stutter-step into their jabs and you will see how it throws off even the best fighters in MMA.
The jab could be Daniel Cormier’s worst nightmare in this fight. It is lengthy and fast and versatile enough to build off of when he goes into his overcommitted defensive sways. Miocic has a limited set of weapons on the feet but usually goes to his jab to tease out reactions from his opponent and then capitalize on them. Lack of reaction, of course, means it is high time to be force-feeding the opponent the right hand, but against dangerous opponents who are working on a hair trigger, Miocic will play with their expectations.
Francis Ngannou dropped his weight and set his feet wide to swing his counter punches—this was especially noticeable when he moved in a very high, narrow stance and dropped into a long stance to strike back in his early UFC fights. Miocic would show a shoulder feint or slight level change to simulate a jab, Ngannou would begin a counter swing and then rethink it, and then Miocic would punt the flustered giant’s lead leg as he returned to guard.
Single- and double-jabbing Cormier into his backwards or sideways lean—as he showed against Jon Jones and Volkan Oezdemir—would be a great time to drop the right hand on him. Oezdemir repeatedly caught Cormier with short left hands as the light heavyweight champ leaned out to his right.
Countering the Level Change
Yet Daniel Cormier’s most dangerous tactic will always be changing levels and picking up the high crotch single. The standard response in every fans mind will be “uppercut,” because they have seen dozens of effective counter uppercuts and knees against level changes. Jose Aldo vs. Manny Gamburyan is the one scorched into this writer’s mind. But there is danger in attempting to counter the level change with the uppercut as Miocic himself demonstrated against Ngannou.
The uppercut is a very powerful, but limited, weapon; it does not simply cover everywhere the opponent can put their head when it drops below shoulder height. Ngannou fired the right uppercut every time Miocic threatened to step in and after connecting one good one, it simply stopped working. Miocic would level change with his head off to Ngannou’s right side and suddenly Ngannou’s punching path would intersect with nothing.
This was something that Cus D’amato was acutely aware of. It isn’t the case that you can slip or level change, you can do both at the same time. Any time Mike Tyson dipped below his opponent’s shoulder level he would usually slip to left or right as well, or immediately after his initial level change. While Miocic slipped to the inside of Ngannou’s uppercut, he could just as readily have slipped towards the elbow side and attempted takedowns with his head outside Ngannou’s right hip. You will notice in this clip that Miocic, trapped on the fence, expects a right uppercut and both ducks and slips off to the side, avoiding the horizontal right swing that comes instead.
A safer option exists when using the same weapon to counter level changes, and it was demonstrated well by Takanori Gomi all the way back at PRIDE Bushido 9. During that lightweight grand prix, Gomi ran through Tatsuya Kawajiri and Luiz Azeredo in the same night, showing pressure and body shots like MMA fans had never seen. When he met Azeredo, Gomi walked him to the ropes constantly and after he had dinged the Brazilian’s chin with a hook, Azeredo began ducking for takedowns. Rather than swing wildly for Azeredo’s head, Gomi uppercutted lower, smashing his right hand into Azeredo’s chest and midriff each time he ducked in. Even if Azeredo plowed forward, Gomi’s elbow was still on the inside and he had an underhook with which to apply some control.
There are two types of level change—whether we are talking boxing or wrestling. There are level changes that hinge at the waist and level changes in which the back remains relatively upright and the legs do the work (whether that be by squatting down or dropping a knee into the mat). Cormier and Miocic both change level at the waist in most of their bouts. This style of level change presents the chest to the uppercut in a manner which it would be impossible to strike with that weapon at any other point in the fight. We also know that Cormier will tire when hammered with attrition strikes like low kicks and body shots because Jon Jones exhausted him in their first fight this way and was on his way to doing it in their second fight.
The Mummy Guard
For Cormier, the fight seems to come down to whether he can get his shots in on Miocic’s hips and whether he can run through his usual sequence of attacks off the high crotch with the same effectiveness. In terms of his ability on the feet, Cormier will probably never be anyone’s favorite striker but as herky jerky as he looks he is at least comfortable.
The gaping hole in Miocic’s game is that he scarcely uses a left hook and ends combinations with his right hand, completely exposed to a counter. Most coaches stress the importance of “closing the door” with the left hook or jab to return a fighter to his guard while striking the entire time, but Miocic swings for the fences with his right hand and forgets about his left after it has done the groundwork for his right. A good left hook off the level change or off the jab could turn Miocic’s head around, and Cormier was happy to hook off the jab against both Jones and Oezdemir.
Against Oezdemir, Cormier’s bizarre mummy guard seemed to have him flirting with danger at all points until he got the takedown, but there’s some science behind this rather ugly method of fighting. With his right hand high to palm Oezdemir’s jab, Cormier moved in behind his extended left arm and attempted to put it over Oezdemir’s shoulder.
This movement raises Cormier’s lead shoulder as the stonewall does in boxing and the long guard does in Muay Thai, something which is partly undone by Cormier continuing to hold his chin high, but it also obstructs the path of Oezdemir’s right hand. In bareknuckle times this was called "barring" a right hand, Edwin Haislet referred to it as a "leverage guard." It’s hideous, but it makes striking awkward and that is really all DC needs to do.
Here DC’s extended right arm bars Oezdemir’s left.
As a bonus, reaching over the opponent’s lead shoulder has no offensive applications in boxing, but for an Olympic medalist in wrestling fighting in MMA, the collar tie is right there for Cormier to reach out and take. While Cormier can look to advance his grips off this control, he also does some of his best hitting with the uppercut from a single collar tie.
Cormier’s reaching for his opponent’s punches is often criticized, but Jack Johnson and George Foreman made careers out of it in boxing. The hands forward "mummy" style of fighting obstructs the opponent’s fastest punches—the straights—and they are forced to swing around if they hope to sneak a blow in. Circular blows are slower and can be ducked.
By checking both of his opponent’s hands, Cormier can shut down his quickest offensive options. Many opponents react by trying to free their hands or drawing them into their body, and this allows Cormier to score with his own punches.
Like the great Jack Johnson, Cormier can catch his opponents out by switching from a purely stifling use of his hands to a quick, straight-forward attack with his hands.
(For more on Johnson’s style, watch this video.)
In addition to Miocic’s tendency to leave himself exposed after throwing his right hand, and Cormier’s wrestling advantage on paper, Miocic also struggles with pace. Miocic put the pace on Francis Ngannou and Junior dos Santos (in their first fight) but hardly looked fresh as a daisy in the third, fourth, and fifth rounds. There is decent cardio for a heavyweight, and then there is decent cardio for any other division in the sport. If Cormier can enter on clinches and work from there as he did in the first round against Oezdemir, it is quite conceivable that he could tire Miocic out without taking much damage. If Miocic can be drained significantly, Cormier might well move Miocic into position along the fence and open up with knees and uppercuts as he did against Frank Mir.
One of the downsides of the hands-extended, mummy-style guard is that it doesn’t account for a shin bone sweeping up and cracking you from the side to the body or head. In boxing, you would have a check on both the opponent’s weapons; in MMA the opponent still has two limbs which he can use with impunity. Fortunately, Stipe Miocic isn’t a very dexterous kicker. If Miocic could commit to throwing a few high kicks as Cormier ducks, he might be able to convince Cormier to move more cautiously even if he doesn’t score a spectacular high kick knockout. Meanwhile Cormier has always been able to throw a hard kick even if it isn’t always with textbook form. As Cormier is the man more likely to be hunting the clinches and the takedowns, he might as well try to get some low kicks in to slow Miocic down without worrying about being taken down.
Daniel Cormier would be doing something truly remarkable if he succeeded in taking the UFC heavyweight title, and Stipe Miocic might just be the right kind of fighter for him to do it against. Cormier’s ugly striking is best against straight hitting, non-kickers, which is a perfect description of Miocic. But Cormier’s over-extensions and deep leans can cost him against fighters who build off set ups and can feint decently: things which Miocic has been known to do. Additionally we just don’t know what Miocic can do if Cormier grabs a hold of him. The interest in a Cain Velasquez match hinged around Velasquez’s gas tank and relentless wrestling, Cormier might not have quite the same intensity and pace as Velasquez but he’s the next best thing.
Something interesting is bound to happen at UFC 226 and whether it’s another defense for King Stipe, or Daniel Cormier walking off into the sunset with both belts draped over his shoulders, we will be breaking down the finer points on Monday.
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