In this last season of The Ultimate Fighter 12 there was a fighter named Cody McKenzie. Cody had an unbelievable ability to pull of a Guillotine Choke - on anyone. From 2008 to 2010 Cody won 10 matches in a row using this technique. Not only that, he did them all in under four minutes of the first round. Four minutes - choke - done - win. You would think by the third or the fourth guy - someone might catch on, but over and over again this worked for Cody.
Eventually Cody would be eliminated from TUF 12 by Nam Phan who used elbows to daze and exhaust Cody and in the end of the round was able to avoid the choke taking them into the second round of fights.
Cody hadn't been to the second round in a fight since 2007. He became gassed and ultimately Nam Phan was able to get him by TKO (punches) in round 2.
Will the Guillotine Choke work for Cody again in his career? Yup, it did on 12/04/10 against Aaron Wilkinson. Sure, he will have to change up his game plan to train on avoiding being hit, increasing his cardio to make it to the second, third, and maybe someday for him - fifth round, but he isn't going to totally abandon what works for him. Many called him a one-trick pony. Well that pony did some awesome tricks that earned him a position in the house and advanced him all the way through Episode 9 of TUF 12.
There have been many times in my journey when I implement something into my routine that works great. Then for some reason or another it falls by the wayside. Later I find myself trying to reinvent the wheel over and over again to find something that works - when I had something in my arsenal of tools that worked before and only wasn't working - b/c I wasn't doing it anymore.
Obviously in life we don't generally have another guy trying to break our streak as viciously as a UFC fight. Usually the biggest opponent we have is ourselves. So when you find something that works for you - do it again, and again and again until it doesn't. If it works, and you stray away from it - find it again and do it again and again until it doesn't work. When it doesn't analyze why, what happened, what can be changed to make it work again - and then try until it works. =)
Eventually Cody would be eliminated from TUF 12 by Nam Phan who used elbows to daze and exhaust Cody and in the end of the round was able to avoid the choke taking them into the second round of fights.
Cody hadn't been to the second round in a fight since 2007. He became gassed and ultimately Nam Phan was able to get him by TKO (punches) in round 2.
Will the Guillotine Choke work for Cody again in his career? Yup, it did on 12/04/10 against Aaron Wilkinson. Sure, he will have to change up his game plan to train on avoiding being hit, increasing his cardio to make it to the second, third, and maybe someday for him - fifth round, but he isn't going to totally abandon what works for him. Many called him a one-trick pony. Well that pony did some awesome tricks that earned him a position in the house and advanced him all the way through Episode 9 of TUF 12.
There have been many times in my journey when I implement something into my routine that works great. Then for some reason or another it falls by the wayside. Later I find myself trying to reinvent the wheel over and over again to find something that works - when I had something in my arsenal of tools that worked before and only wasn't working - b/c I wasn't doing it anymore.
Obviously in life we don't generally have another guy trying to break our streak as viciously as a UFC fight. Usually the biggest opponent we have is ourselves. So when you find something that works for you - do it again, and again and again until it doesn't. If it works, and you stray away from it - find it again and do it again and again until it doesn't work. When it doesn't analyze why, what happened, what can be changed to make it work again - and then try until it works. =)
