Scott Marker is a licensed MMA referee in Idaho and has officiated hundreds of MMA matches since 1996. Here are his views on the 7 biggest mistakes he sees in MMA matches. Scott is also a 15 year practitioner of BJJ as well as a black belt in American Kenpo.
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nice vid
this was helpful
To even be mentioned with Big John, is an honor. I had the privilege of working some fights with him here in Idaho couple weeks ago; he couldn’t have been a nicer guy. He “is” the pioneer of mma referring, the godfather
Big John McCarthy and Herb Dean are my top two favorite mma referees!
I respectfully disagree. I see a lot of fighters successfully tap out their opponents with a “pipe choke”. The great mma fighter Fedor Emelianenko has done it successfully several times.
Yes, full RNC is best but I see fighter after fighter miss the “pipe choke” and then get dump off only going for the RNC. The key is to have both in your game. Thanks for the comments!
@krupple Scott is a 5 degree kempo black belt and a purple belt in BJJ with over 15 years experience.
Great details! What is this man’s rank?
great video Scott !!
For the RNC choke without the full RNC grip, if you do the cup and saucer like that, All the guy has to do is turn his head.. You wont be able to choke him out, but it will be very very very uncombfortable, and sometimes they will tap just from the pain, but technically you will not be able to choke them out from that alone, But if you crank it enough, like i said, They might tap from pain, depends on how high their pain endurance is.
i’d love to see this guy ref UFC, not as good as Big John Mccarthy but diffenently better then any other ref in UFC
thanks for the tips
Wow! Great tips and very well presented! The MMA world is a vast depth of never ending knowledge, amazing how such small adjustments make a dramatic improvement to your game. thanks for the tips!
nice work, thanks of the tips.
I like the idea of this (most common mistakes) thing. 1. Scott has short legs, i’m sure he’d go deeper with the triangle (on a much larger guy) if he could. 2. good input on the RNC. 3. Great positioning on the leg locks. 4. the arm in guillotine is more effective if you can master that angle on it, rather than straight on, like Scott is saying. 5. the most important thing to remember when applying a triangle is to GET THE ANGLE using head control!!! Nice post. 5 stars.
for real dude! he would do great!
yeah, really bad habit to get into locking it over the foot and when the guy is actually trying to posture and working triangle defenses its just no good. If someone taps from there thats a weak tap. If you lock it over your toes and the guy is actually grappling and theres resistance it has a similar effect as a straight ankle lock… locking it over the toes is also alot less tighter than over the ankle.
I respectfully disagree through experience on the mat and watching numerous mma fighters not having it clearly lock in and just grabbing the head and pulling. Hence my saying, A crappy applied triangle choke will still make a guy tap if you grab and pull the head down.
head control is very important but no one should ever lock there triangle like that and theres no way your ever going to make anyone good tap like that. lock over your ankle not your foot.
agree. I cant count how many times I see this and am yelling to adjust to what the opponent is doing but they are target fixated and can’t make the shift to something new or go forr a different angle. it is frsutrating as hell to watch.
Seems like this guy really knows his shit; he should be reffing in the UFC… anyway, great video.
I may not like UFC or Mixed-Martial Arts but one cannot deny the skill, knowledge and execution involved in the sport.
This is a very good vid and shows the depth of the technique involved.
Epic Awesomeness!!!!
Great tips.
Many, many, many, fighters once they commit to a move, refuse to adapt to the situation as it changes.
All too often the opponents defense opens up all kinds of new opportunities, but fighters just doggedly stick to the original move they started, even though it isn’t working.
This separates the good fighters, from the great.
This is Awesome!!!
Thanks actually lost last fight because could not get out the mount watched this then my fight seen the mistake thank check out my fight thanks terry
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