Come on Seagal, not this again.
Despite the fact that the fighters have placed distance between themselves and former martial arts icon Steven Seagal’s claim to have taught them how to execute their highlight reel front kicks, Seagal himself has no intention to dabble in that reality. Instead, Seagal insists on taking credit for their stellar performances.
When Silva kicked Vitor Belfort’s head through the uprights at UFC 126, it was Seagal who had instructed him to use the kick and coached him through the proper technique beforehand. When Machida pulled off a Daniel-san on Randy Couture at UFC 129, you can bet it was Seagal who planted the idea in Machida’s ear and taught him the correct way to throw the kick.
Apparently enjoying this newfound play at relevance, Seagal was banging that drum again during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, telling Kimmel all about how he’s molded two of the world’s best mixed martial artists.
“I am teaching Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida,” claimed Seagal. “I show them, you know, a lot. Not everything I know, but I show them punches and what we call Ashi Sabaki, which means how you move with your feet, how you enter, hand angles, joints — but mostly I’m teaching them kicks and punches. There is a signature kick that I’ve taught them that they’ve knocked champions out with and won world championships with.”
Of course you do, Steven. Of course you do.
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I once showed Steven how to eat an ice cream with sprinkles in under 30 seconds. He used the technique to later star in almost 3 top C rated movies.
hahaha
awesome hahahaha
He should have started his story off with, “This one time at training camp…”
that’s wicked, Seagal’s bad ass.
I can’t wait to see him in action in the octagon or perhaps the big screen.. no holds barred 2 with hogan?
‘Stone Cold 2′ starring him and Brian Bosworth
well, he was backstage, and did receive hugs as part of the cornermen at the silva fight, and silva did credit him for it. as they both train ar blackdog in brasil its not hard to lend that machida did do some trainning with him as well… but come on thats the first thing you learn in any karate class, thrusting front snap, or flying snap. that great thing about the kick its 100 percent effective, but rarely used, which is why is surprised so many, its so basic that we were in aww when it worked. seagal did coach them, but im sure hes got nothing left in his bag of tricks, he actually sounds like my old karate sensei, you know this much, i know this! it was all a load to be honest, and i tont think he can teach them anything, but he may be able to help tweek technique a bit.
I think, bot Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida credited Steven Seagal in the interviews done in the octagon after their victories. Just an observation. As for basic technique. Any layman can do a front kick. Doing it correctly is another species all together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uIYAh3dQyk
Here is seagal showing machida the front kick prior to fight with randy. It looks to me as though Machida does improve with the instruction. So he probably deserves some credit.
Hmmm, Machida said “My father taught me that kick” and Silva’s kick was an offensive Muay Thai kick jab (teep) kick. Whether or not he told them to kick there opponents in th face, i don’t know. But being in Martial arts most of my life I know Seagal is full of shit.