Fulltime Fighter: Sean Salmon gives an inside look at a week of training in Wolfslair

Originally posted on MMAjunkie.com

Here we go, back again from Liverpool, England. I'm just going to ramble on about what has been going on and what we've been doing and hope some of you find it interesting.

As I discussed in my column earlier this week, I recently left Ohio to come over here to Wolfslair to help with some of their fighters, including Michael Bisping, who meets Dan Henderson in July.

So after the workout here at Wolfslair this past Friday, I was told that staying at the gym over the weekend would make me want to kill myself. They said not many people train during the weekend and that I'd pretty much be here by myself.

Thank God for Ricco Rodriguez. (Which is a sentence I never thought I would say in my life.)

Ricco took me back to a very nice apartment in downtown Liverpool to stay there for the weekend. I am not much for sightseeing or experiencing different cultures, but it was nice to run through downtown Liverpool and see things that I would never otherwise get to experience.

Anyway, we started training again Monday morning. I learned very quickly that they do not mess around on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Wolfslair. It is hard sparring, hard conditioning, and no one is very nice. We beat the hell out of each other for a solid hour and a half in the morning and then another hour at night. I think I took more lumps in those two workouts than I have in all my professional fights combined.

The best part about it is that everyone over here is so friendly (when they're done punching you in the face). This is a real team that wants everyone around them to succeed, from the top guys to the new guy at the gym, and they work very hard to achieve those goals.

I was very happy to learn that Tuesdays and Thursdays are a bit more about technique and gameplanning than beating the crap out of each other.

So, right now I am back staying at the gym for the week of tough training with Paul Kelly (a very cool scouse), Tommy Rowlands (an old friend and Cagefigheter employee) and LeeRoy Barnes.

My skill level has already improved by 100 percent. You can't be around a guy like Bisping and not get better (or at the very least, raise your level of intensity).

I also don't think I mentioned how perfect this training camp works out for me personally. I am fighting next weekend, June 6, in Cleveland, Ohio, for one of my favorite organizations, the NAAFS (www.naafs.tv). I am hoping finally to get a few cheers from the Cleveland crowd; for some reason, I always get booed mercilessly in Cleveland. So if there is anyone reading this from Cleveland, please come to Fight Night in the Flats at the Nautica Pavilion (formerly the Plain Dealer Pavilion) on June 6 and cheer for me in my home state!

Once again, if there is good feedback and you guys are interested, I will continue to give Wolfslair updates throughout the week.

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