The Striking Dojo - Week #9.

Our extra 'Grand Finale' of sorts...

To conclude this course, I would like to fulfill some additional requests...

And offer some insight on other very common striking scenarios!

I received a request for 'drills to improve one's side kick'.

The following video ensues:

This drill will improve all three of your major kicks: The Front Kick, the Side Kick, and the Roundhouse.

You will develop an infallibly strong 'standing leg' , and add a ton of additional power to your pivots.

You will develop an infallibly strong 'standing leg' , and add a ton of additional power to your pivots.  

This drill will improve all three of your major kicks: The Front Kick, the Side Kick, and the Roundhouse.  You will develop an infallibly strong 'standing leg' , and add a ton of additional power to your pivots.

I received a request for 'set-ups, set-ups, and more set ups'...

So here's a phenomenal set up.

One of my favorite set-up's of all time, this will give you a great chance at taking your opponent's head off with a clean lead hook.

One of my favorite set-up's of all time, this will give you a great chance at taking your opponent's head off with a clean lead hook.  

Since Eddie Alvarez just won the UFC Lightweight Title...

Here's one of the first videos that I ever made (and it probably sucks) but it's another great simple set up.

Eddie Alvarez knocked my wind out so badly using this set up (around 2008 or so) that I almost shit my pants. As a result, I started doing it to other people… which is way more fun.

Eddie Alvarez knocked my wind out so badly using this set up (around 2008 or so) that I almost shit my pants. As a result, I started doing it to other people… which is way more fun.  

The most common attack that you will see is the flailing 'overhand right'...

So it's good to have a few options, in case someone starts troubling you with this punch.  You only need to master ONE of these, but having more than one in your pocket can't hurt!

Anticipate this punch, and catch him with one of these.

Anticipate this punch, and catch him with one of these.  

Now, at times you will hurt your opponent and you will know that he is hurt.

Don't just rush for the finish... guarantee the finish.  A lot of times, when you rush in, you'll rush right into a 'hug', or a clinch, or a double leg takedown.  Be prepared to be grabbed once you've clipped the guy, and don't let it happen.

These options will make him feel less friendly.

These options will make him feel less friendly.  

Just to add on to this a little bit...

The following video will elaborate more on some of the previously mentioned 'hug stopping' methods.

The "Rude Awakening"

A gem from the How to Fight Bigger People Course, this video contains a more thorough description of the 'shoulder bump', we touch on the elbow with a hook underneath, and we also add a 'battering ram' style into knee into the mix... which will easily stop someone from hugging you.

A gem from the How to Fight Bigger People Course, this video contains a more thorough description of the 'shoulder bump', we touch on the elbow with a hook underneath, and we also add a 'battering ram' style into knee into the mix... which will easily stop someone from hugging you.  

Here's another gem from the F.B.P course

I promised you the ability to build your neck, and resist knockouts, so here's that video:

Single Legs involve head-butts, neck strength is crucial. The more sturdy your neck is, the less likely you are to get knocked out!

Single Legs involve head-butts, neck strength is crucial. The more sturdy your neck is, the less likely you are to get knocked out!  

And that's it!  The course is finished!

I hope that you enjoyed all of the stuff that you learned, and I hope you continue to practice this stuff in years to come.  You will not have mastered this art in the time that it takes to watch the videos, so be patient, and WORK HARD.

Soon enough, the moves will flow, your strikes will snap, and you will have the unencumbered confidence that it takes to  face fights fearlessly.  I hope that you never have to defend yourself in such a manner but I leave you with this:

Hey... I would love to hear your opinion on the course, and get any feedback.  Please shoot me an email!

trav@howtofightnow.com

Let me know if you have any questions as well!

Train hard... be unstoppable.

Hey... I would love to hear your opinion on the course, and get any feedback.  Please shoot me an email!

trav@howtofightnow.com

Let me know if you have any questions as well!

Train hard... be unstoppable.

Hey... I would love to hear your opinion on the course, and get any feedback.  Please shoot me an email!

trav@howtofightnow.com

Let me know if you have any questions as well!

Train hard... be unstoppable.

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Key Takeaways:

In the Realm of Footwork:

The ability for you to 'Freestyle' your movement is ridiculously important.

Sometimes do it 'in place'... without moving your feet.
Sometimes express yourself via lateral movement and angle changes in conjunction with your head movement.
Sometimes start slips and then abandon them.  Have a little fun with it.

Horse Stance

Is a great way to build strength and flexibility in your legs.  This will make it easy for you to drop down into your thighs to get underneath punches, without taxing your groin or hamstrings.

Your feet remain parallell
Pull your tailbone underneath you, trying to point your hypothetical D up at the ceiling
Sink down until it hurts... and stay there.

U Slip Plyometrics

...will use your downward force when 'landing' to trick your body into firing a more powerful counter movement on the way back up.  The more powerfully you fire your muscles, the more power you shall build.


When combined with Horse Stance, this is one of the best ways to make your U-Slips effortlessly powerful.

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Day 1 Training:

(Click Here to download this workout.)

If the following doesn’t make sense to you, watch this video on Slipping to the Left on your Left vs Right Foot.

Straight Slips

On these slips, you will move only one of your feet.  You will bounce that foot immediately back to your stance.

Your will be transferred to the foot on the same side that your head is slipping.  So, if your is moving to the left, your weight will be transferred into the left foot.

50 Straight Slips, Head Moving To the Left, Stepping on your Left Foot and bouncing it back to your stance.

50 Straight Slips, Head Moving To the Left, Stepping on your Right Foot and bouncing it back to your stance.

50 Straight Slips, Head Moving To the Right, Stepping On your Left Foot and bouncing it back to your stance.

50 Straight Slips, Head Moving To the Right, Stepping On your Right Foot and bouncing it back to your stance.

More Straight Slips

On the following slips, you will move BOTH of your feet, thus bringing your entire stance underneath you... instead of just bouncing the foot back to your stance.

If you are slipping to the LEFT, you will take a LEFT then RIGHT replacement step.  (Don't "Overdrag" your step.  Keep a nice wide base)!


50 Straight Slips, Head Moving To the Left, Stepping on your Left Foot and bringing your Right foot in as a replacement step.


50 Straight Slips, Head Moving To the Left, Stepping on your Right Foot and bringing your Left foot in as a replacement step.


50 Straight Slips, Head Moving To the Right, Stepping On your Left Foot and bringing your Right foot in as a replacement (aka drag) step.


50 Straight Slips, Head Moving To the Right, Stepping On your Right Foot and bringing your Left foot in as a replacement (aka drag) step.

Slips and Counters

Start by slowly executing:

20 Straight Slips popping your Left shoulder forward and throwing a Right Uppercut


20 Straight Slips Popping your Right shoulder forward, and throwing a Left Uppercut


Now do this in the midst of moving:


2 Minute Round of shadow boxing, while randomly slipping and popping your left shoulder in front, firing either a Right Uppercut, Up-jab, or 'Uppergut'.


60 seconds Rest


2 Minute round of shadow boxing, while randomly slipping and popping your right shoulder forward, throwing a left Uppercut, Up-Jab, or Uppergut.


60 seconds Rest

Rear Slips

100 Rear Slips - pulling your head straight back, and tucking your chin.

100 Rear Slips, Left left


100 Rear Slips, Rightright

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