Adriano Moraes explains how skateboarding helped him improve as a martial artist

Skateboarding is greater than only a passion for Adriano Moraes. The Brazilian enjoys indulging within the sport, not solely as an escape, but additionally as a way to enhance as a martial artist.

The ONE flyweight world champion found skateboarding at a younger age and stored the passion whilst he delved deeper into his blended martial arts profession. In an interview with ONE Championship, Moraes shared how skateboarding has helped him discover stability.

The 32-year-old mentioned:

“Skateboarding lets you have plenty of stability. It lets you transfer with each arms and each legs as a result of it has the maneuvers on the [regular stance] and on the swap – which is the [regular stance] reversed. In order that forces you to have the flexibility to stroll on each bases.”

Many elements wanted to navigate a skateboard will be important in creating expertise for MMA. Nevertheless, Moraes additionally credit the opposite intangible advantages he will get from the game for making him a greater athlete.

He continued:

“Skateboarding helps me so much. It helps me with my expertise, it helps me to be calmer, to be extra affected person, to have extra management. And better of all, stability. An MMA athlete as we speak who doesn’t have a stability, he can’t go very far. And skateboarding helps me with all that as a result of it’s a whole sport.”

Adriano Moraes will want stability towards Yuya Wakamatsu at ONE X

Adriano Moraes will want all the advantages he can get from skateboarding and coaching as he faces a harmful foe in Yuya Wakamatsu at ONE X on March 26.

‘Little Piranha’ climbed the rankings on the again of 5 straight victories to say the No.2-spot behind solely Demetrious Johnson. He has an general skilled MMA report of 15 wins towards 4 losses and is a scholar of the Japanese martial arts legend, Ryo ‘The Piranha’ Chonan.

The 27-year-old has seemed sharper in each outing and appears prepared for a run because the division’s king.

In the meantime, followers are ready to see how Moraes can prime his earlier look. In his final bout, the Brazilian defended his world title with a career-defining knockout of the top-ranked Johnson.