Neck Strengthening Drills
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Earlier this year when I was training for the Pans, a new guy named Eric started coming to morning classes. He was an experienced high school and college wrestler who was interested in learning grappling for MMA.
The thing that really impressed me about Eric was how hard it was to keep that dude on his back. It’s what you’d expect from a wrestler, right? In particular, he had very powerful arches that made it dang hard to stay mounted in any form. While I bridge onto my feet and shoulders, Eric would bridge clear up onto the back of his head.
Bridging with your head makes sweeps that involve bridging more powerful and harder to counter – not to mention if you can bridge like that people will feel like they’re sitting on a wild bull when they try and mount you.
Problem is it takes some serious neck strength to arch like that, especially when someone is on top of you. For me, a guy with a pencil-thin giraffe neck, it’s REALLY hard. I’ve started doing some basic neck-strengthening exercises during my regular workouts. To take it to the next level, I asked Brandon Ruiz, a Machado black belt and All-American Wrestler for some good neck strengthening drills. Brandon is also the 2010 Pancrase Submission Grappling World Heavyweight Champion. A very tough guy.
He’s also a nice guy and a great instructor:
I did a little searching on YouTube and found some supplementary videos. (…)
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