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That’s cool! Some fighters do start that young - Vitor Belfort and Robbie Lawler both started MMA at age 19, and they definitely had memorable careers. If that’s your kind of path, then do take care, and I wish you the best!
It's such a great moment as a coach when a junior starts linking punches and kicks together in sparring instead of throwing them individually. It's like everything clicks in to place.
1: minimise squeezing muscles in arms and legs (let arms flow with speed and last second tense muscle) 2: minimise time between punches (especially alternating from arms to legs) 3: focus more on withdraw instead of extension for speed when punching (the faster you bring your hand in the faster the other hand can go out) 4: its not just arms and legs use your shoulders and hips 5: rotate body and stay loose to actually get power instead of stiff power shots Let me know if i missed anything important and ill edit it 😊
My kickboing instructor always stresses the importance of being loose and relaxed.He warms us up first and always makes sure everyone in the class is loose and fluid and doing the techniques with as least tension as possible.He'll walk around and observe our form making sure of that and call you out if he sees too much stiffness.He always says '...force equals mass and acceleration' so the looser you are the more force you will generate as opposed to muscle it which holds you back.
hey gabriel thank you so much, its one of my harddest battles. I moved from bodybuilding to muay thai and my coach allways tell me that i move with too much force and more like a robot then a ballet. more videos like this will be super helpfull. again thank you so much!
The third tip is one of the most important ones, the times I felt the most fluid in training was when I was defensivly aware and quick, reducing the effectiveness of the opponents attacks while being fluid makes them second guess and not want to risk so much while I can take advantage of that
I'm in the midst of learning to release my muscles when striking. One thought that's helped is to imagine that I only have knuckles and to move them forward I need to use my hips. It's not really accurate but its a nice mental image to help me release from my usual breadstick-ism
My favorite combo is to do jab, jab, cross, left hook, right hook, left uppercut, right uppercut, front kick, round house. The thing I'm not sure about is whether its better to go fast and hard with the punch combo (I can do it all in 2-3 seconds), or if I should be returning my hands to a defensive position after each strike. The thing about going fast and hard is that it is also really tiring, so I can do about 10 reps before red lining myself and needing to take a moment to catch my breath.
One thing I think is important for your output here was actually mentioned in someone else’s video on fluidity - the concept of picking your focuses in the combination. Not every shot has to hit hard to make the combo work; in a 1-1-2 (jab-jab-cross), for example, the jabs can be flicked out with less-perfect form to focus on rapidity, while the cross fires off a little early and sinks deeper into the target before retracting. With such a long combo, maybe you emphasise every even-numbered strike or every third strike in the pattern. That way, you’re not fighting your own physical limits as much trying to blitz through the combo. Hope that helps!
@@jonharker9028 The thing is, when you alternate your left and right strikes and use your hip twists to throw your punches, it gets really easy and natural to go left-right-left-right-left-right, and then it's just a matter of working up and down the bag / body using jabs, crosses, head hooks, body hooks, upper cuts, etc. I haven't sparred in kickboxing before though, so I don't know if its better to always keep your defense up, or to just go all out and overwhelm your opponent with power strikes. If you go with the overwhelming power route, you're hoping to have such a rapid flurry of punches up and down the body that your opponent turtles up and can't do counter strikes without taking a hard hit. But it's going to be a bit of a hail mary because after going at it for a minute straight, you're going to be so physically exhausted that you'll pretty much be out of the fight -- at least offensively. But, going all out without any guard up also puts you at risk of taking a free single counter punch... So, is it better to fight conservatively and go for a long fight, or try to go all out and end the fight quickly?
@slayemin Well, if you're sparring hard in your first spar, that's an issue. Also, like the person above said, not every punch has to land hard. Mix it up. I would regiment it like they said, I would slow the combo down and focus on light and heavy punches. If you only throw hard punches you lose the element of surprise because I know that everything coming my way is coming with the same power. And that's exactly why you'll get countered mid-combo. Mix it up! The double jab is an easy one. Go light on the first or second one. Since the cross is technically a power punch you might think it should be trhown with power, but that's not necessarily the case. Hooks hit much harder than straights so realistically you want to save your power for those. Instead create angles with your straights, which of course you have to incorporate your feet into your combos. But like I said, mix it up don't be steict aboout it. Experiment with which punches are light and heavy. As far as blocking is concerned, yes you need to bring you hand back to your head, unless you want to get hit directly on the face. You shouldn't even need to ask that question. I will say though, to get snap in your punches you have to punch fast, but also bring your hand to your head just as fast. So in a way, your offense helps your defense. Plus you'll make you coaches happy.
Might be the 1st time I've seen a real purpose with Kata; to learn to string together a series of fast, snappy techniques involving the complete body, while being relaxed and in full control. Please object if I'm wrong! 🙂 Thx as always for excellent content. BTW: Really appreciated your "toe-episode" , really struggle with that. Br, Anders
Can you look into bare knuckle fighting and how they train? They know exactly how to hit because they won't be protected by gloves during a strike, and they're all well built while still having great cardio Also you can look at Bas Rutten's kyokushin stance and style for further videos
Can you make a video about stretching. I can’t throw kicks without stretching properly, but when I do it, i can do high-kick as much as I want. Thanks.
Can I book a zoom session with you but not to train, I just want to hangout and chat really. Would love to hear more about your career and get some insights, maybe some tips on training or stories about your fights. And having the life of a pro fighter.
ive been doing muay thai for 2 years and 10 months now, the first year was 3 hours per week (three days per week), now its 2 hours per week. With over 200 hours worth of training, i still have no fluid striking, especially my kicks, i tend to bounce around after i kick higher than the legs (its like i am constantly battling my balance when doing fast round kicks to body or head), i also drag my feet when i try hard not to. Does it take longer to fix these or should i have fixed this by now?
This is my number 1 struggle in the gym. I've been training for 2 years 3 days a week and still look awkward. Coach says it because I'm overthinking it, but he doesn't understand I can't stop overthinking. How can I improve at something without thinking about it. It's very frustrating.
Do shadow boxe and visualization training. Watch some anime and try to be like them. The moment you break from reality you start to understand it better and start to flow. Next is to learn to direct you overthinking. You mind sometimes can be a bit out and not disturb you in a fight
More variety in drills? Idk it seems like the perfect answer to me Gabriel has a lot of drill videos about defense and attacking with defense do maybe watch and practice those
Stop thinking. Feel. Technique is a feeling. Remembering the feeling of the technique is "muscle memory". For "mental training" of this concept, watch somebody who has excellent technique and try to "feel" their movements, then mimic them.
Dont fight or spar on the same day after strength & conditioning. There was one time I did becep curls the day before rhe fight and I had no idea why. I won but could have done a lot better.
that seems pretty obvious, want to be 100% recovered during the fight. And one or two days can make you recover a lot but over time thats not enough either. Every few months or so I like to take one or two entire weeks off heavy lifting to recover fully.
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My goal is to start fighting before I turn 20Yo
That’s cool! Some fighters do start that young - Vitor Belfort and Robbie Lawler both started MMA at age 19, and they definitely had memorable careers. If that’s your kind of path, then do take care, and I wish you the best!
It's such a great moment as a coach when a junior starts linking punches and kicks together in sparring instead of throwing them individually. It's like everything clicks in to place.
Sparring becomes a drill almost at that point 😂😂
1: minimise squeezing muscles in arms and legs (let arms flow with speed and last second tense muscle)
2: minimise time between punches (especially alternating from arms to legs)
3: focus more on withdraw instead of extension for speed when punching (the faster you bring your hand in the faster the other hand can go out)
4: its not just arms and legs use your shoulders and hips
5: rotate body and stay loose to actually get power instead of stiff power shots
Let me know if i missed anything important and ill edit it 😊
You are the man👍 thanks
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My kickboing instructor always stresses the importance of being loose and relaxed.He warms us up first and always makes sure everyone in the class is loose and fluid and doing the techniques with as least tension as possible.He'll walk around and observe our form making sure of that and call you out if he sees too much stiffness.He always says '...force equals mass and acceleration' so the looser you are the more force you will generate as opposed to muscle it which holds you back.
Yes! F=m*a, E=m*v*v*0.5, P=E/t! It's always about engaging your complete mass at max acceleration and speed!
This is what makes dutch kickboxing the most beautiful style to me, the dutch glory fighters have such awesome fluid striking
Agreed
Thought I knew this already. My inconsistency gets me every time 😂.
hey gabriel thank you so much, its one of my harddest battles. I moved from bodybuilding to muay thai and my coach allways tell me that i move with too much force and more like a robot then a ballet. more videos like this will be super helpfull.
again thank you so much!
That is one of the hardest things to achieve in my opinion. Especially loosing the shoulders it the fight.
The third tip is one of the most important ones, the times I felt the most fluid in training was when I was defensivly aware and quick, reducing the effectiveness of the opponents attacks while being fluid makes them second guess and not want to risk so much while I can take advantage of that
Excellent explaining
Dude I need to start taking notes with legit pen and paper when I listen to you. Thank you brother.
Thanks again. Appreciate your wisdom.
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I'm in the midst of learning to release my muscles when striking. One thought that's helped is to imagine that I only have knuckles and to move them forward I need to use my hips. It's not really accurate but its a nice mental image to help me release from my usual breadstick-ism
You imitated the bodybuilders so damn well lol
My favorite combo is to do jab, jab, cross, left hook, right hook, left uppercut, right uppercut, front kick, round house.
The thing I'm not sure about is whether its better to go fast and hard with the punch combo (I can do it all in 2-3 seconds), or if I should be returning my hands to a defensive position after each strike. The thing about going fast and hard is that it is also really tiring, so I can do about 10 reps before red lining myself and needing to take a moment to catch my breath.
One thing I think is important for your output here was actually mentioned in someone else’s video on fluidity - the concept of picking your focuses in the combination. Not every shot has to hit hard to make the combo work; in a 1-1-2 (jab-jab-cross), for example, the jabs can be flicked out with less-perfect form to focus on rapidity, while the cross fires off a little early and sinks deeper into the target before retracting. With such a long combo, maybe you emphasise every even-numbered strike or every third strike in the pattern. That way, you’re not fighting your own physical limits as much trying to blitz through the combo.
Hope that helps!
@@jonharker9028 The thing is, when you alternate your left and right strikes and use your hip twists to throw your punches, it gets really easy and natural to go left-right-left-right-left-right, and then it's just a matter of working up and down the bag / body using jabs, crosses, head hooks, body hooks, upper cuts, etc. I haven't sparred in kickboxing before though, so I don't know if its better to always keep your defense up, or to just go all out and overwhelm your opponent with power strikes. If you go with the overwhelming power route, you're hoping to have such a rapid flurry of punches up and down the body that your opponent turtles up and can't do counter strikes without taking a hard hit. But it's going to be a bit of a hail mary because after going at it for a minute straight, you're going to be so physically exhausted that you'll pretty much be out of the fight -- at least offensively. But, going all out without any guard up also puts you at risk of taking a free single counter punch... So, is it better to fight conservatively and go for a long fight, or try to go all out and end the fight quickly?
@slayemin Well, if you're sparring hard in your first spar, that's an issue. Also, like the person above said, not every punch has to land hard. Mix it up. I would regiment it like they said, I would slow the combo down and focus on light and heavy punches. If you only throw hard punches you lose the element of surprise because I know that everything coming my way is coming with the same power. And that's exactly why you'll get countered mid-combo. Mix it up!
The double jab is an easy one. Go light on the first or second one. Since the cross is technically a power punch you might think it should be trhown with power, but that's not necessarily the case. Hooks hit much harder than straights so realistically you want to save your power for those. Instead create angles with your straights, which of course you have to incorporate your feet into your combos. But like I said, mix it up don't be steict aboout it. Experiment with which punches are light and heavy.
As far as blocking is concerned, yes you need to bring you hand back to your head, unless you want to get hit directly on the face. You shouldn't even need to ask that question. I will say though, to get snap in your punches you have to punch fast, but also bring your hand to your head just as fast. So in a way, your offense helps your defense. Plus you'll make you coaches happy.
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Might be the 1st time I've seen a real purpose with Kata; to learn to string together a series of fast, snappy techniques involving the complete body, while being relaxed and in full control. Please object if I'm wrong! 🙂
Thx as always for excellent content. BTW: Really appreciated your "toe-episode" , really struggle with that. Br, Anders
Can you look into bare knuckle fighting and how they train?
They know exactly how to hit because they won't be protected by gloves during a strike, and they're all well built while still having great cardio
Also you can look at Bas Rutten's kyokushin stance and style for further videos
Can you make a video about stretching. I can’t throw kicks without stretching properly, but when I do it, i can do high-kick as much as I want. Thanks.
Can I book a zoom session with you but not to train, I just want to hangout and chat really. Would love to hear more about your career and get some insights, maybe some tips on training or stories about your fights. And having the life of a pro fighter.
How to withdraw kicks faster?
I've hurt my right thumb.it is not broken,though throwing right hand hurts when landing.What should I do
ive been doing muay thai for 2 years and 10 months now, the first year was 3 hours per week (three days per week), now its 2 hours per week. With over 200 hours worth of training, i still have no fluid striking, especially my kicks, i tend to bounce around after i kick higher than the legs (its like i am constantly battling my balance when doing fast round kicks to body or head), i also drag my feet when i try hard not to.
Does it take longer to fix these or should i have fixed this by now?
This is my number 1 struggle in the gym. I've been training for 2 years 3 days a week and still look awkward. Coach says it because I'm overthinking it, but he doesn't understand I can't stop overthinking. How can I improve at something without thinking about it. It's very frustrating.
You may think I'm kidding but I'm not. Get a little tipsy and do shadow boxing.
Do shadow boxe and visualization training. Watch some anime and try to be like them. The moment you break from reality you start to understand it better and start to flow. Next is to learn to direct you overthinking. You mind sometimes can be a bit out and not disturb you in a fight
More variety in drills?
Idk it seems like the perfect answer to me
Gabriel has a lot of drill videos about defense and attacking with defense do maybe watch and practice those
@@MarcosAG90yoo Imma try it tonight after my workout
Stop thinking. Feel. Technique is a feeling. Remembering the feeling of the technique is "muscle memory".
For "mental training" of this concept, watch somebody who has excellent technique and try to "feel" their movements, then mimic them.
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Dont fight or spar on the same day after strength & conditioning. There was one time I did becep curls the day before rhe fight and I had no idea why. I won but could have done a lot better.
that seems pretty obvious, want to be 100% recovered during the fight. And one or two days can make you recover a lot but over time thats not enough either. Every few months or so I like to take one or two entire weeks off heavy lifting to recover fully.
@@berosar I was trying to be funny but I really did do the curls before the fight. It was like 5 years ago.
Great advice but why does it sound like you smoke 2 packs a day ? 😂
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