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This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. I feel that I am a very marketable fighter, I believe that I am a very good fighter, and I would like to demonstrate that on September 24th and continue to demonstrate that in the future.
Sims: Growing up in Alaska has helped me stayed grounded. My parents worked very hard to create a stable environment for me and they helped me learn how to stay focused and grounded. My mom gave me good looks and we both worked hard to keep my head flat. On top of that just look around, between Easton, Grudge, and New Mexico, if you think you are getting it together then spar a round with Brendan Schaub or wrestle with Nate Marquardt or grapple with Shane Carwin and it continues down this line.
The next thing I know my feet hurt, my arms are sore and my throat is not working so well and it goes on and on. I think that it is easy to stay stable because I am around so many individuals that are stable themselves. That is what I like so much and why I decided to make Colorado my home is not just because of the training and the gifts that are around but because of the individuals.
My family is far away and I have a very different support system but what I consistently have and want is that I am consistently around is people that have stable lives, positive families and influences and have a consistent commitment to their craft, their skills, their trade and to themselves.
So anytime you think that you have it going on just look around the corner and there will be somebody here to quickly remind of where you are. Sims: My training is a year round commitment. My training is not as cyclical as other fighters. I think a lot of individuals train when they need to fight and then take time off. I train all year round. I take a different approach. I have been working with Loren Landow of Steadman Hawkins Clinic through his Advance My Athlete program and he has been a tremendous influence on my development and to my health.
One of the things he works on is year round maintenance and not just thinking about a six month goal or a one year or a two year goal but the overall career picture. How can my body and my mind develop over a ten year plan.
How can my body and my mind develop to reach my personal potential. In the same light that I am excited to work for larger organizations, I am excited to fight more, I am excited to develop myself and my brain I am also on a mission to be the best individual that I can be. So what am I going to do? Well I will tell you exactly what I am going to do.
I am going to rest, hopefully I get to ride some motorcycles, chase some women and take some private lessons. I have some key questions that have come to the surface and I have identified some individuals that I want to work with to shed some light on those areas.
So the process. Sims: My ultimate goal is to be world champion. It is that simple. I personally believe that I am the most talented individual on the planet at lbs and I am on a mission to develop that skill. So the journey overall is to get to that point. When I reach it is unknown and how I reach it is unknown but I know what I need to do today, I know what I need to do tomorrow, I know what I need to do next week and the week after and I am going to take it step by step, channel by channel and link by link until I reach that point and have the chance to prove it.
Sims: I would people to say that Chaun Sims is a mental monster. Chaun wanted to give special thanks to Mathew Bernier and his muscle activation technique for keeping both his body and mind healthy, Dr Evan Katz of Katz Chiropractic for his support both with his body as well as financially, Duane Ludwig for all his motivation and support, Eliot Marshal and his wife Rene for their family support as well as helping him get to where he needs to be.
I think the biggest thing about for me is it cost me the opportunity at a different goal. I was supposed to fight in November and then I was supposed to fight December 11th in my hometown of Fairbanks Alaska. Losing that fight was more off-putting then anything else. The thing that bummed me at the most was choosing between the fight in the Dominican Republic or the fight in my home town, which is something that I really want to do. So I chose to fight in the Dominican and another guy on our team stepped up to take the fight in Alaska.
It was kind of ironic, because just as I was lecturing my younger teammate about separating the mental from physical, I was given the same opportunity to embody that. Sims: It is what I need to do. The MMA Corner: So do you feel that you were able to get a full camp and properly train and prepare everything that you needed to for this fight?
Sims: Yeah, actually it was even nicer because the break allowed us to hone in on some things that we were just beginning to touch the surface on. Sims: It is exciting. It is something that I have always wanted to do. I wanted to fight on the same card as Eliot in this past Ring of Fire event but I was injured at the time and I was unable to do it.
The most pleasant thing about it is the fact that you have a brother to struggle through it all with. Fighting is kind of an individual sport and it definitely has an individual nature to it and sometimes it is like you are off in your own little world. With him fighting on the same show and us being close enough in size to train together it is great and also knowing that when I am down there crying, moaning, whining and complaining, he will be right there with me.
Or maybe it will be the opposite, a lot of times I am down and he is up or he is down and I am up so it will balance us out. Sims: I need to stay tight and make sure that I put my best foot forward. I think that the only ability that he might be able to exploit against me would be maybe his Muai Thai. I think that if I keep my hands up and allow my skills and my presence to push forward to direct and control the fight I can take him to a place that he has yet to see.
If I keep the pressure on him then I think things will go well. The MMA Corner: This is your first fight out of the country, have you done anything different to prepare for that?
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