Originally slated to be Pakistan Warrior Challenge II, the 2nd ever MMA event in Lahore on April 17th turned out to be Shaheen MMA Academy’s first smoker.

For those who don’t know, a smoker is an event that can be considered before amateur. They are full on fights but are meant to be so local clubs can get experience. They are usually small affairs with a limited number of fights.

Shaheen MMA Academy will be regularly holding smokers. They will be trying for approximately every 2 weeks. 1-3 fights per smoker.

Smoker events do not have to be only MMA but also boxing, kickboxing, wushu and grappling, although the focus will be on MMA.

The next PWC is possibly going to be in an 8 man tournament format, in the light weight category 65-70 kilograms. It will be held on Sunday May 16th.

Cash Prize  of 5,000 rupees to the winner. Tournament will only take place if 8 LW fighters are found. If this does not happen then PWC will be single elimination as before.

Next Shaheen smoker coming soon.

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Every few days we get emails from individuals asking “what can I do?” or posts on our face page asking if there is a training center in such and such city. So for everyone who is interested in bringing MMA into the sport scene I have made a list of what you can do to help out.

1. Hold a fight night

UFC events air live on Show Sports 4. Invite your friends, have snacks and just sit back and enjoy the fights. Simple easy and fun. If you don’t want to get up at 8 am, then download the fights burn them and watch them later that night.

2. Promote the website

Spread the word about the website through internet forums and word of mouth. For those with even a bit of knowledge about MMA, knowing that there is something going on to bring it to Pakistan may set the convert them from casual to die hard fans. For those already training at a school tell your instructor about the website. Remember we are here to promote ALL martial arts. Tell your instructor what a great business move it would be to be profiled on the most viewed site regarding Martial Arts in Pakistan.

3. Bug your local Martial Artists

Call up or visit your local Martial Arts school and ask them if they offer MMA classes. Ask your friends to do the same. Hopefully after seeing that there exists a demand, local martial artists will start looking into what MMA is and offer classes.

The problem of course will lie in the quality of classes, but we all have to start somewhere and because MMA is a competitive sport, charlatans claiming to teach MMA but have no idea what they are doing will be exposed. MMA by its very nature will provide an evolution.

This being said remember ALL arts can provide the tools needed to fight in MMA competition. Remember, MMA IS NOT A STYLE, it is a competitive format but in order to be successful in MMA competition you must master all ranges of combat. Once Pakistani Martial Artists get that part then the Judo instructor will also add in some strikes to make his Judo more effective and the TKD instructor will start teaching take down defense to make his TKD more effective etc etc.

4. Write for the website

The more articles that the Mixed Martial Arts Pakistan website has the more often it will turn up in search results and hence the more exposure the site will get.

We are accepting articles on a whole range of topics. here are some ideas.

- You can go to a local Martial Arts club or boxing gym and do a review

- You can write about a style your interested in

- You can write about some aspect of Martial Philosophy

- You can write about a current event or tournament relevant to Martial Arts or boxing in Pakistan.

- You can write about a certain aspect of physical fitness or diet or include a workout program

The topics are endless. The only criteria being that any entry submitted should be at a certain standard. Articles written as if they are a text message are a no go. Send any articles to info@pak-mma.com.

5. Give DVD’s to your local DVD shop or demand MMA DVD’s

Go to your local DVD shop and ask if they have the latest UFC. When they say they don’t, ask them why the heck not, it’s one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Hopefully the DVD owner will look into stocking MMA DVD’s.

You can also burn them a copy and give it to them so they understand what your talking about.

6. Start your own club

This is probably the best thing you can do to promote MMA in Pakistan. As long as you have an internet connection and a love for the sport of MMA this is possible. You do not have to have a black belt to get some friends together and practice techniques that you get from this website (we’ll be including many of them soon) or off of the thousands of instructional clips available on youtube.

Even better, get videos and pics of you training along with an address of where you train at with times and you can become affiliated with MMA Pakistan. What that means is that your local club (even if it is 2-3 friends) will get listed on the website, get mentioned regularly on the fan page and will receive promo items from MMA Pakistan.

As the website and organization further develops we will have instructor courses available where you can come get certified.

This is not only a chance to do something you love, promote MMA in Pakistan but opens the possibility of having an extra source of income if you start getting a large enough class to warrant a proper school.

7. Send us your training pics and videos

If you are already a member of a club send us videos and pictures of you training. If you want to give back to the clubs that have taught you martial arts what better way then putting them out there and getting recognized.

These are just 7 ideas. There is plenty more you can do. it’s up to all us to work together to get MMA Pakistan off the ground. With some patience and teamwork there is no end to the success MMA Pakistan can have.

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Over the years, Pakistani’s have become more conscious of being fit. For most guys though, being fit means, being big and strong. Having the physique of Arnold is what is striven for.  Body building gyms are popping up all over the country and as you walk down the street you see more and more guys with the broad build one gets from spending hours in the gym pumping iron. However, having a body builders body does not mean one is physically fit. Ask that body builder to run a kilometer and you might see him gasping for air after 2 minutes, heck, ask him to do 25 push ups in a row and you might see him struggling.

The martial artist and combat athlete requires what is known as functional fitness. Doing a bicep curl, no matter what the weight – is not functional fitness. Being able to lift yourself up over a wall, or being able to run at top speed for a specific amount of time, is. Functional fitness is fitness that can benefit you in a real life situation and in the case of a martial artist or combat athlete that situation is a fight.

Now please note, I am not saying that lifting weights is useless, an MMA fighter NEEDS to lift weights to get stronger. However, what most people don’t know is that you can lift weights to get stronger and you can lift weights to get bigger. However, this is a topic that needs to be covered by itself. For right now were focusing on the fundamentals.

The fundamentals that need to be covered for any serious athlete involved in combat sports are strength, flexibility and cardiovascular. Even within these three area’s there are different kinds aspects that need to be tended to. To break it down, lets look at each of these three area’s one by one.

Strength – There are two major aspects to this. One is muscular endurance and the other is maximal strength. Muscular endurance is how long your muscles can work in a weight bearing exercise, an example of this would be how many push ups or squats you can do. Maximal strength would be the maximum weigh you can bench or squat in one rep.

Flexibility – There are two aspects to this as well. One is active flexibility and the second is passive. Active flexibility is how you can kick. Passive flexibility is how far you can reach when trying to touch your toes. Active involves movement, passive does not.

Cardiovascular endurance – This is simply how efficient your heart and lungs are doing hard work. Pretty straight forward. An example that everyone can understand is how fast an individual can run a kilometer in and how tired they get doing it.

Hopefully this will give the reader a basic understanding of what is required of a combat athlete. Within these fundamentals of combat fitness,one can go even more in depth and and in detail and further break these down. For example some experts list seven different types of stretching and flexibility!

However, it is important to understand the big picture first before breaking it down even further. Those who stay up to date with the website will learn step by step the best way to reach your athletic potential.

In summary, every martial artist and combat athlete must pay equal attention to the three fundamentals of combat fitness. Your only as strong as your weakest link.

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I just did this promotional video for fans of Mixed Martial Arts Pakistan who are not very familiar with MMA. It covers some of the basic lessons learned from the first few UFC events. I hope that by watching how Martial Arts evolved after UFC 1, new fans can get a better understand of what MMA means by understanding its origins.

To sum up the first couple of UFC’s. People were shocked when 185 pound Royce Gracie won the first two tournaments because he was fighting people on the ground. Everyone assumed that the winner of the tournament would be the one who is knocking everyone out. By taking people down and using submissions (joint locks or chokes) Gracie showed that one must be prepared for all ranges of combat when there were limited rules similar to a street fight or self defense situation.

The other major point was that training had to be conducted differently than what people were currently doing. Most of these top Martial Artists were looking amateurish when they were put in the reality of full contact, no holds barred. Why was that? Very few of these top martial artists seemed to have any idea what they were getting into.

Let me know what you think. I want to improve the quality of these videos dramatically.

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