Conor McGregor’s MMA Striking Style Explained

You can learn a lot about how an elite fighter trains by looking at their training montages. After all, how you train is how you fight. There are some golden nuggets here: Conor McGregor’s style is focused on creating the “snap“ - a well known key factor to generating knockouts. The snap relies on having looseness and relaxation on the body, and in Conor’s case, the shoulder. It’s surprisingly hard to do if your shoulder muscles are either shortened and tight, creating stiffness. Conor claims that being