DeMarcus Ware explains how MMA helps him on the Football field
source | miamiherald.com
“If I didn’t learn martial arts, I’d be just a basic dip-and-rip guy just trying to go around the corner,” Ware said.
“It was all about the hands and how to get their hands off you,” he said.
“The tackles now, they’re so big and they’re pretty quick,” Ware said. “And they use their hands to set you up or they use their arms for leverage because usually their arms are longer than a pass rusher’s. So, you have to figure out how to defend yourself from that, and with mixed martial arts, you sort of figure out how to set guys up and use certain moves so you dictate what they’re going to do.
“If you do it so many times, eventually, you figure out the timing of when they’re going to punch — because eventually they have to punch.”
“It’s like a chess match. You’ve got to be patient,” Ware said. “Because if you beat him just three times and have three sacks in that game, you had a monster game.”