1.  Slips should be small.  The smaller they are, the faster they can be while also being energy efficient.  If you make them small and fast enough, you can hit your opponent before his hand gets back to his face.

2.  Your head barely has to move in EITHER DIRECTION to make any straight punch miss... that means you don't have to know which straight punch your opponent will throw.  Again, keep your slips small.

3.  Just to further beat this into your now-rapidly-moving head, here's Deonte throwing random left and right straights, while I execute the same slip to one side.  It makes either of these punches miss:

4.  To learn how to feel and engage the muscles that will pull your head laterally away from a punch, you can try rapidly sliding your hands down the sides of your legs about 3 or 4 inches.  This triggers your 'obliques' or side-abs:

5.  Next, you need to learn how to pop your shoulder. You can do this by imagining a ball in front of your chest, and using your shoulder to smack the ball 45 degrees down towards the floor.

6.  Now we simply combine those movements.  By crunching your obliques and executing a shoulder pop, you have the entire upper body aspect of a "Straight Slip" executed perfectly.

7.  BUT... if you don't move when you're slipping, you'll be very limited in your ability to counter.  Your hooks and uppercuts are much shorter "looping" punches, that do big damage, so you need to MOVE CLOSER to your opponent in the moment that you slip (especially if you're a shorter fighter).  Resist the temptation to slip while moving backwards!

8.  Feel free to practice slipping your head to both sides, while also stepping in every direction.  This will give you absolute freedom of movement while you're moving your head.  If you need to get away, you can do it.  If you want to move IN, you can do that too.

9.  Use slips to load up a punch. When you pop your RIGHT shoulder forward, all punches from the LEFT side are loaded up for immense power (because that punch will be thrown from the rear).  This allows your torso to be wound and unwound during the punch, in addition to your punch having more distance to pick up speed on it's way to the target.

10.  Get some reps!  Slip to load up various punches, and throw them on the air until your core muscles are on fire.  This is an amazing way to build speed, power, and muscle memory pertaining to the head movement game.  Make him miss and make him pay for it!

11.  Finally, now that you can slip to both sides, mix slips randomly into your punching combinations to keep your head moving unpredictably, making yourself dramatically harder to punch, while also loading power into whatever strike you throw.

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