If you are like most MMA fans you probably have been training in one or two different martial arts styles for years. Even if you are extremely skilled at those jumping into the mixed martial arts arena not only means the freedom to add more moves to your arsenal but the necessity to have a more rounded fighting ability to combat the wide variety of styles you will be up against. You can be the best stand up fighter in the world but one day you will be taken to the ground meaning if you have no defense for that you are like a duck out of water. The same goes for the reverse.

Unfortunately many martial arts styles are also rigid and a lot of the techniques you have learned will be useless in the octagon. It is time to add some devastating blows that you can really use to punish your opponents. Perhaps the best way to do this is pick up a few techniques from different styles that are the most effective and brutal and form them into your own MMA style. Let’s take a look at some moves you may want to add.

The Jumping Knee
What a beautiful move this is. Nothing quite shows off like knocking your opponent clean out with a jumping knee to the head. Between the hardness of the knee and the power you can get behind this move it is devastating even if you don’t land it exactly on target. It is not even as tough to master as you might think, give it a shot.

Hammer Fist
This is one of the funnest to watch and actually funnest to do when in the octagon or ring! If you get your opponent on the ground you want to be able to finish them of quickly. Perfect your hammer fist strikes for some serious ground and pound to mash your opponent into the canvas. You want to look for the camera, all too often you see fighters on top throwing nothing but mosquito bites, you want to be dropping sledgehammers on them.

The Knee Breaker
This may actually land you in trouble but swift straight kick to the knee could break it, ending the fight in record time and put any thoughts or a rematch far out of your opponents mind. Exactly how Dana White will feel about you destroying one of his fighters like a twig could go either way.

The Elbow
Particularly the forward horizontal elbow to the face. Gives you devastating power and a get shock to your opponent at close range. The tip of the elbow if great for breaking bones and making them bleed a lot, which not only will shake them up but score points with the judges even if it is not serious.

So, be sure to pick up a few techniques every now and then from different styles that are the most effective and mold them into your own Mixed Martial Arts style.

Author Bio: Troy Macraft is the President of The MMA Zone. If you enjoyed reading this article and would like to read more about Karate Gear and MMA Gear.

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