Comments on: Wandy’s snorkel training (video)

By: jason hughes

jason hughes — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:54:09 +0000

not as impressive or effective as fedor running 12 miles every day in high altitude terrain.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:06:13 +0000

They claimed that the reason for the snorkel is because you can’t properly simulate the intensity of an MMA fight by just training the way most train. So to simulate it, they cut off oxegen through his nose to accelerate the buildup of lactact acid. When that sets in, your muscles are fatiqued and it better mimics how you’d feel in a fight.

But i agree..he didn’t look like his conditioning was that stellar in his fight against liddell.

By: FJ

FJ — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:28:45 +0000

I think he should really be training some other way. He trained like that for the Chuck fight and was gassed out in the middle of the second round.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:09:53 +0000

“He is doing the snorkel because first off I think he was roiding for a while in Pride”

I think you mean blood doping, not roids.

By: Fight Fan

Fight Fan — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:08:19 +0000

Wanderlei was better with stomps… no MMA was better with stomps and knees/kicks to the head of a downed opponent. His shootbox style is much better under Pride type rules but I still think Jardine is going down in the first (Unless he wears the snorkel in the ring).

By: MMAKansas

MMAKansas — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:30:01 +0000

He is doing the snorkel because first off I think he was roiding for a while in Pride.. and secondly because his nose is smashed so bad he cannot breathe from it and needs to train his body to take oxygen only from the mouth primarily… I love Wandy but the UFC and USA are much different and much more regulated and structured so its a huge change..

By: MMA SKOOL™

MMA SKOOL™ — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:08:13 +0000

Wand seems like a nice guy. Very different in interviews than the personality he showed when he was head-stomping and taunting in PRIDE.

Makes it hard to root against him. He made a good villain in PRIDE.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:56:16 +0000

hexrei-
yeah they showed it before his fight with Liddell

By: HexRei

HexRei — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:00:48 +0000

i think they showed some of this on his All Access ep… it didn’t seem like he had more gas than usual to me vs Chuck.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:39:20 +0000

Trevor, I’d look to put Hendo in against the winner of Silva/Jardine or Liddel/Evans. Or something similar to that, Hendo just having lost to Rampage previously in the 205 division still puts him somewhere up there deserving of gatekeeping to #1 contender after the Griffin/Rampage fight.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:35:36 +0000

Wand is a good dude. I’d love to see him beat Jardine and then go on to fight Liddell once more for the title shot. Give the title shot between Griffin and the winner of Liddell/Silva 2 to Evans if he beats Irvin.

By: JoeRoganIsAnAss

JoeRoganIsAnAss — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:15:16 +0000

Kids, seriously, do not try this at home!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:54:08 +0000

Hypoxia training makes my everything hurt.