Sports Arnold Sports Festival 2023 - MMA (image heavy)

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Let no one tell you that the Nikon Z6 or Z fc are incapable of capturing sports. Are they the optimal cameras? No, but are capable.

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More to come!
 
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Great set...both! Coming from muay Thai background myself...you have captured the essence of MMA combat.

My background is more "traditional". Have been a martial artist since I was 10, trained in Judo, Hapkido, Shotokan. Picked up a smattering of Kung Fu here and there as well. Just good to see that the traditions live on and change to meet the current levels of need.
 
I'd love to hear more about the Arnold Sports Festival's MMA event in 2023!

What would you like to know? :) If I didn't cover something you'd like to know below.

Some background:


Held annually end in February and beginning of March (usually) in Columbus, Ohio. There are others I believe in Europe and Australia at different dates.
They have an expo center for vendors to come and setup and sell stuff, give things away.
Mainly it has bodybuilding at it's core, but features just about any sport you can think of. It used to be bigger before COVID. It has scaled down some.

Other strength sports like powerlifting, strong man/strong woman competition, pole dancing, MMA, boxing, pickleball, armlifting, arm wrestling, cheerleading and gymnastics, medieval fighting and there is even a 5k on saturday morning. It's scheduled over 4 days, I usually cover 2-3 days for my journalism site, VisualOhio.

in 2023 I covered gunsand hoses boxing (police -v- firefighters), MMA, pole fitness and medieval fighting.

Prior years we covered other things like strongman/woman and powerlifting. they used to have fencing and olympic karate/weapons forms, but those events broke off into their own events. The fencing I cover and is part of the Ascalon Sword Arts Festival which usually is 2-3 weeks after the Arnold closes.

All the articles I've done from 2015 through 2023 can be found here:

Bottom of the page is a button for "older posts" to go backwards.
 
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