I weigh over 200 pounds and have been at that weight for a while. In all those years, it never fails to amaze me how people take one look at me and say “Yeah he may be strong but he’s slow.” Now I’m not the fastest guy out there but I’m not exactly slow either. And I’ve trained with a truckload of other heavyweights who were either just as fast or lots faster than me.
Still, many people out there have this idea that all heavyweights are slow and can’t have good footwork. Weird, but I’ve encountered this too many times for it to be random. Now I do understand that seeing a guy like Viacheslav Datsik in action makes for a convincing argument in their favor but not all heavyweights are like that.
And before you fall off your chair laughing, Datsik knocked out Andrei Arlovski in his first MMA match. So even the worst heavyweight can get lucky. [Read more…]