I think that most great fighters had their own creative tendencies when it came to training. Roberto Duran would hit the speed bag with his head to work on slipping. Joe Louis would train for the Schmelling fight by catching flies (he really did). Muhammad Ali would do his roadwork running while also running backwards and forwards while throwing punches. Kostya Tszyu would hit a tennis ball that was attached to an elastic cord that went around his head. There are many more examples, some are methodical some are just irrantional, but fun as can be.

By the way, I came up a fun way to work on accuracy. Whenever you see a spot, or anything for that matter you can simply reach out and touch it with your finger. As you get better you'll start doing it faster, and later on touching it in combinations or while on the move.

I guess this is a good time to reopen the 'Alternate training/techniques' thread.

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Chris,

That's Nate Quarry doing God knows what to mock Kalib Starnes in a recent UFC. Starnes wouldn't engage so Quarry was doing all kinds of crap trying to embarrass the guy. Basically, Starnes has had enough of being a fighter and that was probably his last career fight.
So if you were about to fight Nate you back off and run until he does that move and you leg sweep him with an outside right kick when his arms out and his left leg is forward (on every second step) and you land on him and your fight starts.
I haven't seen any leg sweep takedowns in the MMA bouts that I've watched.

I suppose that another way that you can show Nate is to quickly turn your back on him by pivoting on both of his feet and laugh to the crowd to show that you're not scared of his antics. This is risky, but when he tries to capitalize on this you can quickly pivot back towards your opponent and catch him with either a pile driving left or right. Done right and you won't be seeing as much of Dumbo from him.