The MMA Coahing Credentials of Ido Portal

WarZ wrote: »

I'm sorry but something just doesn't add up. If he only spends 2 weeks downtime with McGregor then he wouldn't be in McGregor's corner alongside Kavanagh and Roddy.

Hardly matters who's the 3rd man in the corner. Often it's just someone to hold the stool and the sponge. Often another fighter from the same camp. The coach and the trainer will be the ones inside the cage in between rounds giving advice.

I think he needs to go, but what do I know.

One thing I do know is that when a fight is changed from someone like RDA to a lanky boxer like Nate, you should probably be putting the hippy stuff aside and start preparing for a completely different fight. As far as I'm aware, Conor wasn't training with JK and Roddy during much of the time since the opponent was changed, but was training with Ido.

I also personally think it's cringey, and reflects poorly on Conor, for this guy to be posting about "busting heads" during weigh ins, or posting videos of him teaching Conor a kick as if he has a clue. Gtfo.

WarZ wrote: »

I think your underestimating his role in the camp. Read his own quotes, he is very much involved in all aspects of Conor's training and was in his corner on Saturday night!

I think you are overestimating his role tbh.
His quotes are vague philosophical waffle.

Ido has developed excellant high level movement and flexibility training protocols. He is also very expensive, and the same stuff can be gotten for free, or for a fraction of the cost.

Cost aside, he is very good at what he does.
He isn't an MMA coach, and he isn't coaching Conor.

WarZ wrote: »

Ido Portal describes himself as a movement expert. From what I can gather he has never trained a top level MMA athlete before yet here he is leading a training session.

That's not a MMA training session. It looks like a mobility warm up.
I believe the first time that was sen was actually John Kavanagh recording it from the house. :cool:
https://www.instagram.com/p/_DLSLOAqP-/

He also said;

https://twitter.com/john_kavanagh/status/675218576291315712

He himself has stated that;


But that's not all, he goes into more depth regarding his role;

The movement teacher must be a dancer. The movement teacher must be a strength and conditioning coach. The movement teacher must be an acrobat. The movement teacher must be a therapist.

Which part do you disagree with? Have you done much mobility/flexibility training?
It involves a huge amount of strength tbh, flexibility is not have long or stretch muscles, its having muscle that are strengthed in end range. I would have thought the link with dancing, acrobatics and gymnastics was obvious.
Ditto therapy, that sort of protocol is very tough on the body, and even a casual practitioner would have at least a basic manual therapy knowledge.

Conor was into manual therapy, foam rolling, flexibilty etc long before Ido showed up.

He also spars with Connor using a big stick. Apparently this is more useful than actually sparring with actual training partners.

Do you think Conor is doing that to replace stand up sparring?
Why do you think that?

Last weekend Ido Portal cornered Conor McGregor, barking out instructions as Conor began to lose.

WarZ wrote: »

Why was he in Conor's corner barking instructions on Saturday?

What instructions did he give?
What instructions did John give?

This is a random comment but Ido saying our rise to the top of the food chain is down to our movement is in my opinion wrong. Our movement will never be as good as other animals. Our brain however is the deciding factor. Back to the topic. I think Ido is a new trend that was used to bring more publicity. on top of that fighting is pretty much entirely movement based so having someone who looks at movement in many different ways can be helpful.

Also i doubt Ido was allowed have any major say in connors fight training. . if he did than connors couch is to blame for not monitoring the situation.

Its going to be an interesting fight, I still think diaz will take it but it will prove to be a hard fought one.

I think helping connor should have been his main goal. Reason being it generates interest in your gym and makes a good profit. This in turn helps the other up and coming fighters as they can now ride on the back of the fact that their gym has an MMA champion. Still hard choice but I think its worth taking a few months for.

Has anybody ever looked at his videos or looked into movement training a little more ?

Depp wrote: »

seen a good few of his videos and i dont really know enough to criticize his credentials but to an outsider looking in, some of the stuff he can do is cool as fcuk

That's a valid observation but..........and this is important......a cat playing a piano is also cool as ****..

wonderfullife wrote: »

Conor seems to enjoy his company. If it helps him stay loose during fight week it's no bad thing.

Wonder is he the 4th man in the corner this time. Conor Wallace will be in stands watching so it's John, Roddy, Dillon and one other. I'd have to lean towards Sergey as he's been a huge part of the camp but it'd be cool to see Ido back

Ido Portal training with Michael 'Venom' Page !!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=In4j5rdECHQ