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Excerpt Ageless Athletic Assassin: Page 120
NFL DEFENSE MARTIAL ARTS
Martial arts helps football players stay in shape while improving their hand positioning and foot agility in games. NFL Pass Rushers benefit as hand combat is the art of creating leverage with strategic hand placement at the line of scrimmage - allowing pass rushers to terrorize quarterbacks after they outsmart the bigger offensive linemen. The New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears have employed martial arts specialists to give them an edge against the competition.
Before coming to the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick was the New York Giants defensive coordinator from 1985 to 1990 where he noticed pass rushers Lawrence Taylor and Andre Tippett destroying everyone on the field. After learning Lawrence and Andre both used their martial arts training in games, Bill Belichick hired Joe Kim as an assistant strength coach when he took the Cleveland Browns head coaching job. Knowing Joe Kim was a fourth-degree black belt and a member of the United States National Taekwondo team, Bill assigned Joe Kim to work with the team's pass rushers that helped defensive end Anthony Pleasant go from 4 sacks in 1992 to 11 in 1993. As the head coach of the New England Patriots since 2000, Bill Belichick has used martial arts to achieve 5 Super Bowl Championships.
In 1977, before Joe Kim, Bruce Lee’s famous training partner and student Dan Inosanto was brought on by Cowboy’s conditioning coach Bob Ward to run a secret martial arts training program for the Dallas Cowboys. Inosanto’s martial arts training led to the Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Champion “Doomsday Defense.” A film on the Cowboys Defense produced by Inosanto’s daughter Diana says “I always thought people should know my dad’s responsibility for being the first man to introduce martial arts into the NFL and how it was secretly used. This was an East-meets-West experiment that had electrifying results that would carry down the line in football.”
Other NFL players benefiting from martial arts are D’Brickashaw Ferguson who is a black belt in karate with improved coordination and discipline, Jared Allen who got a career high 15.5 sacks in 2007 by training mixed martial arts, Clay Matthews practices mixed martial arts to condition his body and mind, DeMarcus Ware trains Muay Thai for quickness that helped him achieve 134.5 career sacks; Carlos Dunlap, Connor Barwin and Luke Kuechly all practice Kung Fu, boxing, judo, and jiu jitsu; Anthony Zettel started mixed martial arts in college at Penn State University, Datone Jones says MMA training helps his hand-eye coordination, balance, body control, hand striking, endurance, and flexibility; Vikings Brian Robison says MMA techniques helps him rush the quarterback, and even San Francisco 49ers kicker David Akers practices jiu-jitsu, Shaolin Kempo, and Karate.
NFL DEFENSE MARTIAL ARTS
Martial arts helps football players stay in shape while improving their hand positioning and foot agility in games. NFL Pass Rushers benefit as hand combat is the art of creating leverage with strategic hand placement at the line of scrimmage - allowing pass rushers to terrorize quarterbacks after they outsmart the bigger offensive linemen. The New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears have employed martial arts specialists to give them an edge against the competition.
Before coming to the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick was the New York Giants defensive coordinator from 1985 to 1990 where he noticed pass rushers Lawrence Taylor and Andre Tippett destroying everyone on the field. After learning Lawrence and Andre both used their martial arts training in games, Bill Belichick hired Joe Kim as an assistant strength coach when he took the Cleveland Browns head coaching job. Knowing Joe Kim was a fourth-degree black belt and a member of the United States National Taekwondo team, Bill assigned Joe Kim to work with the team's pass rushers that helped defensive end Anthony Pleasant go from 4 sacks in 1992 to 11 in 1993. As the head coach of the New England Patriots since 2000, Bill Belichick has used martial arts to achieve 5 Super Bowl Championships.
In 1977, before Joe Kim, Bruce Lee’s famous training partner and student Dan Inosanto was brought on by Cowboy’s conditioning coach Bob Ward to run a secret martial arts training program for the Dallas Cowboys. Inosanto’s martial arts training led to the Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Champion “Doomsday Defense.” A film on the Cowboys Defense produced by Inosanto’s daughter Diana says “I always thought people should know my dad’s responsibility for being the first man to introduce martial arts into the NFL and how it was secretly used. This was an East-meets-West experiment that had electrifying results that would carry down the line in football.”
Other NFL players benefiting from martial arts are D’Brickashaw Ferguson who is a black belt in karate with improved coordination and discipline, Jared Allen who got a career high 15.5 sacks in 2007 by training mixed martial arts, Clay Matthews practices mixed martial arts to condition his body and mind, DeMarcus Ware trains Muay Thai for quickness that helped him achieve 134.5 career sacks; Carlos Dunlap, Connor Barwin and Luke Kuechly all practice Kung Fu, boxing, judo, and jiu jitsu; Anthony Zettel started mixed martial arts in college at Penn State University, Datone Jones says MMA training helps his hand-eye coordination, balance, body control, hand striking, endurance, and flexibility; Vikings Brian Robison says MMA techniques helps him rush the quarterback, and even San Francisco 49ers kicker David Akers practices jiu-jitsu, Shaolin Kempo, and Karate.
