First off good luck in your training. Secondly, a few words of advice. Your chin is rarely tucked, and you tend not to use your shoulder to protect it when firing either hand (i.e. when I jab, I depend on my left shoulder to come up and protect the left side of my chin). See @0:12/0:13 for an example. Next, make sure not to let your elbow come up so early(especially on your cross), as it forces you to arm punch and makes it easy to time and counter. Lastly, you drop your defensive hand a lot
@AskHandsomeThomas Nothing against you, but I keep seeing people coming to the place where we train wearing such shirts pretending to have years of experience and knowledge about sparring.
Are you trying to 'box' or are you trying to punch MMA style? =)
Here's some universal advice:
Be careful when you punch, you're dropping the back hand too much. Keep it up next to your jaw when you punch at all times (when using the peek-a-boo guard), you can correct that by standing in front of the mirror. When you hit the bag/pads try bringing your guard back to eyebrow level, that way it will always sit where it should. Try not to wave your hands around so much either, its exposing you.
Try rotating your shoulders when you punch to get more distance and power (which is always a good thing!) Try not to lunge, instead focus on stepping with the front foot. Think: step, rotate, punch.
When you pivot or change direction, try not to cross step otherwise you'll trip up over yourself or lose balance.
Going Forwards = Step with front foot. Going Backwards = Step with back foot.
Going Left = left foot leads. Going Right = right foot leads. The other foot follows.
Here are some basic combinations for you to try out too, if you're keen to give them a go. But once you have these sussed, the ring (or the cage) is your oyster. =)
You can also add kicks, knees, back fists etc. for fun.
I hope I haven't been a drag posting three separate posts on punching. I primarily do amateur Boxing but I do Muay Thai too. So I wanted to give a few tips that is universal to all full contact striking martial arts (not just Boxing). Boxing, MMA, Muay Thai etc. are all different despite how similar they can look sometimes. However, Its those small differences can make huge impacts in sparring.
I look forward to watching you improve. Happy training! =D
@Caeviens i'm pretty much fully recovered so i can finally train as much and long as i want to.
power will get back within two months or so as well as speed but my technique got very lazy i leave my right hook out a lot and i tend to push more with most strait rights
these videos will become a series to see improvement for myself and keep the subscribers entertained
i dont rate your striking compared to grappling
marcusbird92 1 month ago
First off good luck in your training. Secondly, a few words of advice. Your chin is rarely tucked, and you tend not to use your shoulder to protect it when firing either hand (i.e. when I jab, I depend on my left shoulder to come up and protect the left side of my chin). See @0:12/0:13 for an example. Next, make sure not to let your elbow come up so early(especially on your cross), as it forces you to arm punch and makes it easy to time and counter. Lastly, you drop your defensive hand a lot
chr1smy3rs 1 month ago
Those security shirts are just bad...
sk317r 6 months ago
@sk317r Why ? they fit very nice
AskHandsomeThomas 6 months ago
@AskHandsomeThomas Nothing against you, but I keep seeing people coming to the place where we train wearing such shirts pretending to have years of experience and knowledge about sparring.
sk317r 6 months ago
Are you trying to 'box' or are you trying to punch MMA style? =)
Here's some universal advice:
Be careful when you punch, you're dropping the back hand too much. Keep it up next to your jaw when you punch at all times (when using the peek-a-boo guard), you can correct that by standing in front of the mirror. When you hit the bag/pads try bringing your guard back to eyebrow level, that way it will always sit where it should. Try not to wave your hands around so much either, its exposing you.
H0tkebab 7 months ago
@H0tkebab
Try rotating your shoulders when you punch to get more distance and power (which is always a good thing!) Try not to lunge, instead focus on stepping with the front foot. Think: step, rotate, punch.
When you pivot or change direction, try not to cross step otherwise you'll trip up over yourself or lose balance.
Going Forwards = Step with front foot. Going Backwards = Step with back foot.
Going Left = left foot leads. Going Right = right foot leads. The other foot follows.
H0tkebab 7 months ago
@H0tkebab
Here are some basic combinations for you to try out too, if you're keen to give them a go. But once you have these sussed, the ring (or the cage) is your oyster. =)
You can also add kicks, knees, back fists etc. for fun.
All combinations are aimed to the head:
Jab, cross.
Jab, jab, cross.
Jab, cross, jab.
Jab, cross, left hook, cross. (My favorite)
Jab, right uppercut, left hook, cross.
H0tkebab 7 months ago
@AskHandsomeThomas
I hope I haven't been a drag posting three separate posts on punching. I primarily do amateur Boxing but I do Muay Thai too. So I wanted to give a few tips that is universal to all full contact striking martial arts (not just Boxing). Boxing, MMA, Muay Thai etc. are all different despite how similar they can look sometimes. However, Its those small differences can make huge impacts in sparring.
I look forward to watching you improve. Happy training! =D
H0tkebab 7 months ago
You still dont have alot of Power/Speed, but your Energy seems to be getting back on track just fine, as well as Technique :)
Caeviens 7 months ago
@Caeviens i'm pretty much fully recovered so i can finally train as much and long as i want to.
power will get back within two months or so as well as speed but my technique got very lazy i leave my right hook out a lot and i tend to push more with most strait rights
these videos will become a series to see improvement for myself and keep the subscribers entertained
AskHandsomeThomas 7 months ago 2
@AskHandsomeThomas Sounds like a plan - Best of luck my good man!
Caeviens 7 months ago