How To Train Against a Taller Opponent

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For a short guy, sparring or fighting against someone with a height and reach advantage can be a real pain in the ass. The best way to train for taller opponents is to have tall sparring partners…but if you preparing to fight a giant and don't know of anyone who's tall as Giant Silva…well…here's an idea…

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On March 24th, Ikuhisa Minowa held a public training session at the PRIDE Dojo in Tokyo. Minowa devised an amazing training strategy for his opponent, Giant Silva, in the upcoming April 2nd PRIDE BUSHIDO 10, to be held at Tokyo's Ariake Coliseum.

Before the training began, the DSE Public Relations officer announced that "today's public training session will be one round of one minute." Now matter how much you may not want to show your training, one round of one minute is unusually short. While the gathered reporters were still scratching their heads, Minowa arrived at the Dojo with his sparring partners, Yasuhito Namekawa and Henry "Sentoryu" Miller.

Minowa put on his open-finger gloves and began to prepare for his training but for some reason, Namekawa picked up two bamboo swords and Miller lifted him up on his shoulders. Minowa's training strategy was to spar again Namekawa, as he holds two bamboo swords and rides on Miller's shoulders. The reason that the round was only one minute long is because that was as long as Miller could hold up Namekawa and move around at the same time. As the sparring session began in front of the stunned reporters, Minowa ducked as Namekawa swung the swords and stepped in sharply to give body punches.

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