The Ultimate Fighting Championship

ufc is the ultimate fighting Championship, the best Mixed Martial Arts organization in the world. ufc is the trucker cage match that somehow got on TV. ufc is every bit as much MMA as PRIDE is.

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ufc also is growing as a pay-per-view ticket, breaking some boxing (and pro wrestling) records and soon to break them all. UFCs Dana White might be out to take over the MMA world, but hell have to do it without the services of one of the biggest names in the sport. ufc: ultimate fighting Championship ufc is the main fighting group in the United States for the presentation of the ultimate fighting Championship. ufc is the ultimate fighting Championship, the best Mixed Martial Arts organization in the world. Could the best pound-for-pound fighter in the old combat sport (boxing) handle a champion in the new combat sport (UFC).

With the ever expanding number of cards the UFC is putting on each year it would still hurt to lose a guy you can put on a PPV with name recognition. The ufc is without any real competition (baring the PRIDE deal falling through) and isn't in the position to have to overpay for a fighter, albeit recognizable, who has now lost to Kalib Starnes in addition to Anderson Silva and Jason McDonald. The good thing is that ufc is expanding its programming on SpikeTv. With a cable television deal with Fox sports Net and now Spike TV, and legalization of MMA in California, a hotbed for MMA fandom, the ufc is currently undergoing a remarkable surge in popularity, along with heightened media coverage. Boxing is dead not just because boxing is worse than ever -- which it is -- but also because the ufc is better than boxing on all but boxing's best day. The ufc is spreading globally -- but that's not the TV breakthrough, either. Basically, the ufc is everything boxing should be. MMA in the ufc is now more of a sport- not ultimate fighting- if you get my meaning.

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Mysteries of Muscle Memory

When you learned to write, you trained the muscles in your arm and hand to create letters. It took time and concentration to do this, but with repetition it became automatic. Your hand developed muscle memory; when you write your name, your muscles remember how to move without focusing on the process.

Dancing, yoga, gymnastics and weight training are examples of other activities that require enhanced muscle memory. We can make the learning process easier and help establish muscle memory by using a few simple techniques:

* Visual images
* Repetition
* Slow motion
* Micromovement

Imagery

Using a visual image is an effective way to train your body to perform a new dance step or exercise. The best visual images are those which are familiar and detailed.

In dance, visualizing a movement helps you perform the step. For example, if a dancer wants to make an S-curving motion with her body, she can visualize a fish swimming, a camel walking, or a snake crawling. Since the best visual images are familiar and detailed, visualizing the color, texture, shape and markings of the image make it more vivid and effective. Likewise, visualizing yourself correctly repeating a new dance step or exercise makes the learning process easier.

Many people find geometric shapes helpful. For example, you can imagine drawing a big circle to make learning a belly dance hip circle or circle step easier. A square is a useful image for learning a box step or hip square.

Repetition & slow motion

Repetition helps fix a new exercise or dance movement in your mind, so that the next time you perform it, you remember it more easily and perform it with less effort. Slow repetitions of a new exercise or dance step enable you to feel every nuance of the movement.

Rushing through a movement before youve completely mastered it skips over the important process of sensing every nuance of the movement; beginning dance students and exercisers often need to be reminded to slow down. Going slowly helps your muscles recognize precisely what the movement should feel like when performed correctly.

Micromovement

Micromovement means performing a movement in a very tiny way, using the least range of motion possible. For example, if you were writing the letter O ten inches high and then writing o in a script so tiny it could barely be seen, your O would require a much larger hand movement than tiny letter o, the micromovement. Using a tiny range of motion helps you sense subtle muscle movements which are occurring, but micromovements must be performed with awareness to get the full benefit. Going slowly helps.

Have fun with learning!

Select the movement or exercise you are working on, then answer the following:

Imagery: what animal, shape or object does it remind you of?
Repetition: what kind of music would help you when practicing this movement?
Slow motion: how many counts does it take you to complete one repetition?
Micromovement:what is the smallest range of motion you can use for the movement?

Ramona is the author of Dynamic Belly Dance, the Joyful journey of Dancemaking and Performing. See free belly dance videos, read book excerpts and order an autographed copy at http://www.DynamicBellyDance.com

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