Importance of Stance & Footwork Your footwork is the platform that you fire all of your attacks from, if it isn’t solid neither will your strikes be. You can’t fire a cannon out of a canoe. Your footwork is also your best defense. If you can stay just out of range of your opponent’s striking […]
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Elbows Knock People OUT! Elbows are one of the best ways to knock an opponent out for several reasons: That is why you see so many knockouts from elbows in sports that allow it such as Muay Thai and MMA. How to Elbow Many people simply do not know how to elbow. I’ve even seen
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Mistake #1 Poor Guard Too many fighters come in swinging punches wildly and get smashed right in the nose and teeth. If you are willing to put in the practice you can fix this critical mistake. Unfortunately martial artists are told to put their non-striking hand by their ear for defense… but that leaves your
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Stronger Without Bulk? That is what a subscriber asked me how to achieve. Now personally I’m all about putting on muscle and dropping body fat to look my best. Plus more muscle means you weigh more so you can manhandle an opponent (or opponents). But today I’m answering the question of how to get stronger
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Countering Low Kicks Ever since the UFC burst onto the stage in 1993 low kicks have become common-place in sport martial arts training. Of course many martial arts have been using them for practically forever but they remained reserved for hard-core niche sport martial arts schools like full contact Karate and Muay Thai. Today the
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The Russian Boxing Step Jab The Russian boxing step-jab is so named because I learned it from a Russian boxing coach. It allows you to extend your reach while keeping your head further from your opponent’s reach. Key Tips to the Russian Boxing Step Jab Step forward with an internally rotated foot This allows you
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How to Coil To punch hard while moving we must use body mechanics that create rotational power. The way that I like to describe it is to coil and uncoil. Coiling is something that we all do when we throw a ball. You pull back your throwing arm as you shift your weight back. You
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Best Martial Arts Kicks for the Street If we only trained Tae Kwon Do we could focus on just learning kicks. If we only practiced BJJ we could spend all of our time getting into the weeds with ground fighting. But as martial artists focused on reality-based self-defense we have multiple areas of martial arts
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Why Pistol Drill Training? Imagine you are out with your family when a crazed man with a gun rushes in and starts shooting people. You have started carrying a concealed carry pistol since you wanted to be prepared to defend yourself and your family in case this unlikely event happened. In the heat of the
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Escape the Dangerous Side Mount The 2 most common places to wind up on the ground will be the full mount – which I describe how to escape here – and the side mount which we will go over in this post. In both of these positions your attacker is going to be on top
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