The swimmer: punching over the guard for knock outs!

 After years of training karate and punching usually from a lower plane ascending up ward, I was struggling to learn the newer concept of the swimmer's punch. Many fighters do it, it looks like they are swinging but the in fact they are strategically punching over the gaurd. 

  To this punch justice you have wind up the punch and litteraly punch above your own head and crashing dowing into the target as opposed to thrusting into it. 

The movement include the explosion from the legs the twist of the torse and the stroke of the arm, much akin to a swimmers stroke. 

 It should be noted that the palm would be facing down. 

This punch can be thrown with the lead or rear hand. It is highly effective.

 My friend is a muay thai fighter in thailand and he recommends smashing your opponent with your forearm using the same manuever. 

I personally love how I land this shit during sparring against taller or shorter opponents.

The best way to improve your FIGHT GAME.

 There is a saying about business that I think applies very well to fighting.

"If you want to succeed in business, you must be in business."
 What that means is that the only way you learn how to run a business is to start one and run it. Face all obstacles, negotiate through them and either thrive or fail, which either way you learn how to make a better business.

 In fighting if you want to be a successful fighter, you must fight. You have to fight in order to see exactly what your condition is made of. Your fears, your weakness, your strengths, your ability all become rapidly apparent. I remember Sparring first and being overwhelmed with feeling of thrill and the terror of not being able to breath and move. Over time the stimulus became less stimulating and I felt calmer in sparring, despite the perpetual danger. I learned to work on my conditioning for which I employed old school running and new school crossfit to make it better.  I saw my natural tendencies to attack and making combinations and I saw my weakness  of having shorter arms and needing to burst in and opening up like a mother fucker!

 At some point I realized that most sparring partners are just not that motivated to fight to hard with me, and I was not interested in hurting myself for nothing, so I signed up for my first fight. Granted I was in Thailand it was easy to get a fight, but it was Muay Thai. I had trained my self, and travelled to many gyms so I walked into the fight knowing that I need to test myself.

 Your first fight, will teach you infinite amounts about who you are in minutes, which feel like warp speed seconds. Then you go back to the lab, and keep experimenting until you progress through your game.

 This is all necessary if and only if you are dead serious about the need to increase your fighting capability. If not, just lead a peaceful life, hire a bodyguard, and enjoy a life without violence. But if you are like me, and are military minded as Machiavelli recommend for all Prince's  to be, then you have to FIGHT. Welcome to Fight Club.

TYRE PUNCHING BAG = NO EXCUSES

  There was a point in which I personally did not have the money to attend a regular boxing gym or be able to afford a heavy bag. I lived next to a tyre shop, and across the street was a home hardware store.

 Four tyres, two dozen nuts and bolts along with some rope and short chit chat with my landlord, I made the following bag.

 It felt so empowering to make my own gym slowly, as I saved thousands with that creativity.

 You can also make other styles of bags, but I  like the look and feel of the tyre bags.

 I train 5 rounds daily on the bag, and it has done great wonders for my power and endurance.

Make your tyre bag today and stop making excuses like having no money or time for the gym. This bag cost 8$ and its more durable than most punching bags that cost north of 200$.

Combat Tested PEEKABOO Training TACTICS

  The slip to me has proven to be effective in creating more head movement and forcing the fighter the constantly change his orientation around the line of fire.
  You only need a low hanging hook about feet above your head, and a string plus a sand bag.

 You bring your head to the area where the bag rests and then you swing the bag. And with squatting you can dodge, with slipping to the left or right you can dodge. This is when the bag is swinging towards your nose. This emulates straight punches like the jab and the straight punch.

 Next variation is to swing the bag side ways, in other words, swinging towards your ears.  then you bob and weave under and around the swings.

 Lastly there is the side ways leaps and pivots all using your lower limbs to get out of the line of fire.

 The daily practice of this drill makes head movement second nature and you will catch your self slipping punches in fights without thinking about it.

 As I learned in the army, the whole point of drills is to repeat an action to the point that you are unconsciously competent.

 Make your slip bag today and start slipping punches.

Over Hand Right: The Short man's Secret weapon agains tall opponents

 Smaller fighters, tend to be in-fighters as they have shorter arms so they have to burst and open up like a MOTHER FUCKER and THEN GET THE FUCK OUT! . The taller opponents are concernec with body shots, especially after you land a few heavy ones on their guts, So they bring their defence to guard their torso, this is where you feint or hit with the left low, and with over hand swing over his guard you shoot for his jaw and neck.

This is when money made if you are the Mike-Tyson-wanna-be then you look at the foe's gut but throw the right over to his head. 

This miss move alone usually turns the tides when I play with taller fighters. 

Machine Gun punches versus slow tempo infrequent punching.

      I used to do Muay Thai before switching over to boxing, and I noticed a key difference which makes boxing training style generally a more superior style for me.

  Bruce Lee once mentioned in his book The Tao of Jeet Kune Do that

"The leg is a powerful weapon, but the man who 

can punch better will be the one who will win. "

 I personally agree with this notion, simply because boxing requires such a high volume of punches that the fighter will develop his striking skills far more rapidly than a fighter who is concerned with more limbs ( knees elbows, kicks etc)

   

   In this article I am not concerned with which style is superior, because every style has is limitations and advantages. . I am bringing your attention to the production of punches in each session. In a Muay Thai session, unless your coach is very boxing minded, you will spend a 75% of your time on kicks, knees and elbows.w

 To become an expert with your fists and to walk in the foot steps of boxing gods, then you must spend the majority on producing punches every training session. 

 

At the end of the day, you got to ask yourself, how any punches did you throw today, because you cannot wish for it for it more than you work for it. 

 

LEFT HOOK, or LEAD HOOK

 This punch is a sneaker damager, because when it is thrown correctly the opponent won't see it coming. We all know that the unexpected hits make the knock out. Since this movement leaves a fighter vulnerable, like most offensive movement, it is important that it is timed correctly. Another thing I will add to this blog is something that will make this for left hook different most convention styles of left hook.

  If you have read the previous posts I have emphasized mobility and staying low, while having the legs fully leveraged. I emphasize this because it allow with explosive and sudden movement, and in this case, the left hook needs sudden movement to destroy target.

There are several movements that need to happen simultaneously for this technique.

 After the initial set up, whether its a jab or a feint you look for the moment that you sense is the right moment between the heart beats.  The timing could be right be opponent is leaning back and dropping his hands or retracting his arms from a previous punch. It is important in practice to know long it takes fro you to execute your technique and recover so you can time this left hook on time.

  Now the starting position where you in the midst of combat, as this punch is never thrown without other supportive actions alike previous jabs or evasive movement. There is a wind up of the hips, a simultaneous lunge where your hip will drop and pivot with the back foot pushing and opening violently and snapping the shoulder and the elbow cross in front of your face, and if you timed it light it should land. You must punch with your entire body, Even it is a short quick and explosive movement, this punch like other punches is not just the arms strength as most beginners mistakenly perceive.


 A great resource I have found is Sugarboxing.com which has great 3D illustrations that help with understanding the movement for the more visual learners.

These movements have to be done in simultaneously with the addition of the swing left hook.

check out this clip below, very useful in showing the left leaping hook by Mike Tyson.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcKlucR73f0