Modified Philly Shell for MMA and Muay Thai with Cory Sandhagen

Things I'm relatively well known for-my incredible beard, my stance switching, and my long a$$ arms! The long guard is a fighting style I am very familiar with, and now I'm going to show you the ropes on how to use it effectively.
To learn more, visit CorySandhagenMMA.com for full instructional courses. Use code 'SANDMAN2023' for 10% off! Content made possible by Sheath Underwear. See you there-PEACE!

[@xxxag1768]

I will always and forever appreciate high level mma fighters who do breakdowns and make channels like this. For a self taught mma fighter like me, this is gold. Ive been using the jab shift switch stance because of you. Or the lead hook into side step switch stance. This vid had more info I didnt know of. Like blocking round kicks with the "arm pit"

[@CorySandhagenMMA]

Glad you learned something man!

[@12345idiotsluggage]

Seriously. This shit is evergreen content. Ten years in the future it will still be relevant and helpful. Quality over novelty. Quality over quantity. Even dummy UFC announcers can respect this shit.

[@moneycompound4012]

Cory is so good at explaining complex things in an easy way

[@achieveanything_academy]

You definitely talking about Jon Anik, he thought you hurt ur arm on round 3 while there’s 1.18 left during the fight.

[@Mactowngangsta]

Thanks for breaking down boxing in mma. Don’t know if you wanna try it but an old school boxing trick to defend the uppercut is to catch it with the rear hand. When it comes you just place your rear hand in front of your chin like a catchers mit and catch the punch, to further mitigate force from the punch you can slightly roll your head with it. If you get good at this you can counter that uppercut when you catch it with the left hook or straight right hand( after you catch the uppercut)

[@Mactowngangsta]

You can also counter that overhand with a straight right after you roll with with the punch.

[@asianassassin5082]

Former Army Infantry combat veteran here. Appreciate you for these videos😂 Champ/ good sir my son loves them. he's in muay thai now has a light boxing background from what I could teach him. Trying to break this now from what I taught him. 😅 🙏

[@tylerlynch2849]

Cory's vids have taught me more about striking than anybody

[@mindblockandroid]

Watching this after Strickland’s win over Adesanya. He was really effective with a more normal Philly Shell 😮. Good to see how things that should not work, actually work!

[@keion_arknights]

Strickland brings his hands up more when he enters boxing range. He has the classic lead hand low pretty much only when relaxed out of range or in kicking range in order to parry body kicks and x block high kicks. His hands go up instantly when the hands start coming to parry punches and he uses a lot of forearm blocks even.

[@Aatrox_Darkin]

The main reason Sean won against Izzy was not his Philly Shell, it was because he read Izzy like a book and had those insane reflexes, I don't know how he did it, maybe because he sparred a lot before the fight, maybe because Izzy wanted to play safe, maybe Sean got his confidence boosted from the first round and Izzy got his confidence crushed, anyway, Sean did not look this crispy fighting other guys, if Izzy just brawl with Sean and actually do some damage to make him respect, the fight might look different.

[@mmarts1993]

And now we have a champ in his philly shell! Lets fucking go guys!

[@jameskendrick7805]

3:01 Shot at dom cruz lol

[@PercyBowls]

really great to watch this after the strickland adesanya fight

[@daniel_q40]

You can solve the high kick problem by using the Lean back, Thai style. The position is almost identical to the classic philly shell, your opponent gets to a disadvantageous position and you don't get hit at all.

[@alexandergustavsson9076]

Great stuff Mr Sandman. Been a huge fan of you ever since your UFC debut, favorite fighter to watch ever since. If you are truly a nerd of masterful details and the art of mixing all these arts together and making it look beautiful and violent at the same time, there aint a single fighter better to geek out about. Been researching your fights, training footage and podcasts and whatever to try and pick your mind for valuable concepts for a long time. So all these youtube clips and instructional series that’s about to release is a blessing my man. Can’t wait to learn new stuff to share with my students and see what they make of it. Lots of love my man!

[@CorySandhagenMMA]

Appreciate you man!

[@rioblazezo7731]

Mark my word future champ. This guy is super slept on

[@Xomatik123]

I don't think he is slept on many people think he won against TJ and he also have some of the most exciting fights

[@rioblazezo7731]

@@Xomatik123 look I like corey but he lost the fight. Takedowns matter and control time. I'm not coming in as a casual I actually fight and train.

[@B1ackout850]

​@@rioblazezo7731they actually don't matter in mma scoring, only if the damage is equal then you go to control time, but it doesn't matter if your getting out damaged which Corey was doing to tj

[@Jiggaballs64]

@@B1ackout850no, it’s even less important. It’s damage, effective grappling, agression or some shit and i believe even ring control and only then control time.

[@wanderingdaze7018]

You mean he got slept

[@sunwukong6917]

Awesome from a boxing background I'm always thinking on how to apply this philly shell for mma, I use my elbows a lot to deflect and comeback as well with elbows.

[@jesseluna2803]

Wonderful explanations man! Thank you

[@abudujana13]

Thanks for the video, CORY

[@coleashmore]

High level instruction, I love the specifics! Thank you!!

[@imjayanthkumar]

When you said, "dummy", you sounded like Cruz.

[@sunnygeclarkson8332]

Thanks so much cory im so fkn stoked your making videos I look up to your style perhaps more than anyone. Keep it up brother !

[@unstableatbest]

I don't know how I haven't watched your instructional stuff before, Cory. Super chill, super informative for a 2-day-a-week Muay Thai guy who also spars on Fridays. You have a new fan in me, sir.

[@EdwardScape]

How good do you have to know something to explain it so eloquently it's impressive. Thank you, your fan!

[@nickcaton9987]

Thank you very helpful!

[@isrracho3918]

Thanks master this will help me a lot.

[@Bloody_Knuckles_Lou]

Nice tutorials Corey been looking for another long lanky guy just like myself to learn from! Going to be studying your videos to help with my upcoming fight. Thanks brother

[@catsnads01]

Informative content, thank you. Subscribed. You are an entertaining fighter and come across as a genuine guy. Good luck in your career

[@heathyb0134]

you have truly blown my mind brother that block so simple quick and effective thank you massive fan your my fav fighter most technical fighter in the ufc by far

[@siberiantiger1975]

Thx coach 😎🙌

[@karlhart7946]

Ur the best Cory!!!

[@seth7250]

Thank you Cory 🙏 I was laughed at by one of my first coaches when asking about the Philly in Muay Thai class. I’ve always felt uncomfortable with a tradition guard in MT/MMA so I ended up developing a similar style always stuffing/jabbing/hand fighting at my opponent w my lead hand. Thanks again for validating my instinctive style and showing a much greater version

[@davidgardner48]

Good stuff

[@cls1c145]

Great video! besides fighting in close range. Is there another situation where the long guard isnt smart to use?

[@martinhorsch]

im a huge fan of ur content. definetly gonna drill these today!

[@elijahbray7341]

Aye Cory I got my first Muay Thai fight Feb 24th and I wanna say your vids are helping me a lot great stuff man keep it up champ

[@AbdelAziz-vs3qd]

Good luck with your match, actully prob. already done, hope it went well!

[@Klove887]

sick sauce

[@fightnationmitv2754]

Well Adesanya need to take notes from you so he can beat strickland :D

[@inditsnotdenon922]

In training the long guard makes me unstoppable - in the cage suddenly my arm weighs 500 KG. But its done well for me so far regardless! Nice video!

[@zekecampesino]

took me a few mins to find your channel. I had to specifically look up "cory sandhagen channel". good stuff though champ, keep up the good work in the cage and on the videos.

[@Sophisticlesenergy]

Hey bro this stuffs amazing just checked it out

[@dannyy8619]

Any thoughts on another modified philly shell in mma, specifically the cross guard that Yoel Romero does?

[@BigBuddyGamerGuy]

All my homies love the Sandman 😤

[@cameronlowe9964]

Could you do a video on distance and how to keep the guy on the end of your punches

[@cringemaxxing28]

pressure

[@baylorhill7238]

LETS GO KZbin SANDHAGEN

[@lukasmeyer419]

The future champ is giving free game,, All Hail!!

[@HJRC_]

Sean Strickland has entered the chat...

[@maher6600]

aged well after ufc 291

[@edehc]

5:20 that’s an Aurora vato 1000%

[@dpatel6393]

Pro level. Pro tips . But understanable for non pros like me😂

[@addicted2anxiety559]

Anybody know which commentator he’s talking about?

[@juandenz2008]

Another comment suggests that it is Jon Anik.

[@NiQGrafnRHipHop]

Paul "The Irish Dummy" Felder lol

[@actionpants3138]

Hey Corey some people may tell you to take out your tangents like kung fu being a bit nerdy or the bad commentating on the chito fight but please never take them out they are awesome and make learning from the video as a whole far more entertaining

[@thephapster99]

2:32 SPILL

[@angelsjoker8190]

Dustin Poirier has made the classic Philly Shell work quite well for him.

[@huynguyenxuan5129]

His Philly Shell is pretty immune to boxing but susceptible to high kick if he cannot bring up his hand fast enough. He got some serious damage from high kick in the second fight with Gaethje and eventually knocked out.

[@barrybuehre8934]

Make videos about everything, deep thought, meditation, cognitive consciousness stay a beautiful soul

[@HotBoii91]

is this even really called a philly shell anymore tho? ur not really shelled up, both hands r up

[@pussyhammer6969]

Really cool bro. They don't teach all of this my gym.

[@sunwukong6917]

Dustin poirier , Raymond Daniels and Bobby green enter the chat.