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Mir's Coaching Staff

Touché.  Mir has found a coaching staff to rival Nogueira's superstar staff (see my previous post "TUF Dream Team" ).  Two of his assistant coaches were revealed to be Rafael Alejarra and Robert Drysdale.  Alejarra will be Team Mir's strength and conditioning coach, and Drysdale (who won numerous Brazilian jiu-jitsu championships) as the jiu-jitsu coach.  Alejarra is known as the guy started training Wanderlei Silva using the snorkel to help is conditioning and breathing.  Alejarra has notably worked or is working with the likes of Wanderlei, Minotauro Nogueira, Jacare, Drysdale, and Gabriel Gonzaga.

According to mmaweekly.com:

In an interview with Tatame, Alejarra stated that the show is already in production and that he will assist Mir in getting his team ready, as the former champion asked him for assistance during the season....

.... He also revealed Drysdale as the jiu-jitsu coach in the interview, but stated that because of his longtime relationship with Nogueira, the opposing coach on the show, that he would not train Mir personally for his fight against the champion.

It appears that both teams will be excellently coached and the fighters should consider themselves lucky to work with such esteemed coaches.  With such great coaching, we can only hope this next season will be more engaging than the current.

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2007 ADCC open weight would be one of those “numerous Brazilian jiu-jitsu championships”.

by Simco on Jun 6, 2008 7:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I heard Nog is bringing along some guy named Anderson????

"They said you was hung!!"

"And they was RIGHT!"

by BJJDenver on Jun 7, 2008 8:09 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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...wow. Nothing would instill more confidence in me than having Frank Mir’s conditioning coach…

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by Brent Brookhouse on Jun 8, 2008 12:28 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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