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When Paul “The Nice King” Lumihi steps into the Singapore Indoor Stadium for his bantamweight combined martial arts battle at ONE: WINTER WARRIORS II this Friday, 17 December, he’ll have a well-known face in his nook.
ONE Championship flyweight star Gianni Subba can be teaching the Indonesian veteran, who faces Crew Lakay teen sensation Jhanlo Mark “The Machine” Sangiao in the primary card’s opening contest.
Subba, who final competed in March 2018, has been serving to different athletes fine-tune their video games in Indonesia over the previous couple of years. And lately, the flyweight grew to become a co-owner of Bali’s latest health club, Soma Battle Membership.
Lumihi will develop into the primary athlete to symbolize Soma Battle Membership on this planet’s largest martial arts group when he steps into the Circle on Friday, and each “The Nice King” and his new coach hope that is the start of even higher issues to return.
Forward of ONE: WINTER WARRIORS II, Subba spoke to ONEFC.com about Lumihi’s preparation for Jhanlo, the Indonesian’s sparring periods with fellow ONE competitor Brown Pinas, how vital this bout is for Soma Battle Membership, and rather more.
ONE Championship: Paul Lumihi would be the first man to symbolize your new Bali-based health club, Soma Battle Membership, in ONE Championship. Speak just a little bit about Paul and what he brings to his bout with Jhanlo Sangiao.
Gianni Subba: Paul could be very gifted. Clearly, he’s an Indonesian champion. He’s a really gifted striker. Jhanlo, clearly, is from an excellent group as effectively, Crew Lakay, Mark Sangiao and the boys, [as] I’m positive Jhanlo has lots of stress being Mark’s child.
However I feel in getting ready Paul, we wish to give Paul the very best alternative to win. He clearly has expertise with ONE Championship, I feel he’s bought 12 skilled fights, so he has that have, and I feel for us, it’s simply making an attempt to convey again that sense of urgency for him.
Paul has, as seen in his earlier bouts, usually began effectively, however he began to lose focus, and that price him some fights that might have [resulted in] victories. So, the most important factor for us is to place him ready the place he’s centered and he’s locked in for quarter-hour towards a harmful opponent in Jhanlo.
ONE: What are the applications you set for Paul forward of this battle?
GS: Paul is a really hardworking man. , I used to be very stunned. He does two to a few coaching periods per day.
One coaching session we give attention to putting. Now we have an enormous skilled group – we’re a rising skilled group in Soma. Now we have unbelievable athletes like Brown Pinas and [Kerrith] Bella, who’s a former England Okay-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and lots of gifted strikers within the room.
In jiu-jitsu, we began to work with Justin Sidelle, who’s a Gracie black belt, and I feel he has been fine-tuning Paul with lots of grappling positions as a result of Paul is unquestionably a extra gifted striker. However he can grapple as effectively.
ONE: Is the sport plan for Paul to face and commerce with Jhanlo, or would you look to show this right into a floor battle?
GS: It’s onerous to say as a result of Jhanlo is a really well-rounded man, very younger, and really explosive. However with Paul, I feel our greatest alternative for Paul can be to remain on the ft, rating, and attempt to be on prime of [Jhanlo] in the event that they go on the bottom as a result of, on the underside, Jhanlo remains to be superb along with his ground-and-pound. He works and he transitions quick.
So, I feel for us, we wish to keep on the ft, and if we go on the bottom, we’d attempt to finish on prime.
ONE: Brown Pinas is a really harmful striker and he competes in ONE Tremendous Sequence. Did Paul get to work and spar with him throughout camp?
GS: Sure, Paul will get to spar with Brown. Brown is a bit heavier than Paul, so we strive to not match guys which might be just a little bit lighter with the heavier ones as a result of there are dangers concerned and Brown, clearly, is a high-level kickboxer.
However sure, Paul did prepare with Brown. When it comes to sparring, they don’t prepare as a lot as a result of it doesn’t make sense since Brown is round 10 kilos heavier than Paul in the mean time.
ONE: Paul is well-known as a striker in Indonesia, and he’s received by knockouts previously. That mentioned, how have you ever been in a position to enhance his putting?
GS: You possibly can see after we watch Paul fights, he’s a really dynamic striker – he throws leaping knees, he throws spinning kicks. However for us, it’s going again to fundamentals.
He truly has lots of energy for a bantamweight, so we wish to make it possible for he throws his punches just a little bit extra precisely.
We nonetheless need him to be just a little bit busier and nonetheless use his dynamic putting, however first, it’s going again to fundamentals – good jabs, good crosses, transfer, and don’t keep too heavy ahead as a result of Jhanlo’s going to search for a takedown, in all probability.
ONE: So far as his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coaching with Justin Sidelle, what’s the essential focus? Is it for submission or to defend towards Jhanlo’s takedowns?
GS: I feel it’s a mixture of these issues. We wish to work on [making] Paul’s sprawling just a little bit higher, work to get him to remain on prime when he will get the takedown, work on prime place with some ground-and-pound, and after we get to a nasty place, we wish Paul to have the ability to scramble and get on prime.
ONE: Paul would be the first athlete to symbolize Soma Battle Membership in ONE Championship. What’s the significance of this battle for the health club?
GS: I feel each battle is vital, particularly as a brand new health club, the place we’re nonetheless establishing ourselves. Being on the world stage of martial arts that’s ONE Championship is an enormous alternative for the health club, however greater than something, it is a chance for us to assist athletes in Indonesia attain their potential.
Our greatest mission after we opened this place was to cater to the locals. We wish to develop the neighborhood, we wish to develop the scene of fight sports activities, martial arts, combined martial arts, jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, every part right here in Indonesia. We wish to be part of that, and I feel it’s a good begin by serving to Paul – one of many athletes representing Indonesia to battle on the world stage. I feel it’s a good begin for us.
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