Advanced Footwork for Boxing Muay Thai MMA

[olamprov]

Great teacher with very good ideas.

[monomariodog]

does this wooks for boxing too?

[rc198028]

At time 4:05: If your opponent is circling round you, why not just pivot? Excuse my ignorance - my background is in boxing. Cheers.

[coolguycode]

@rc198028 For me it's about controlling the rhythm of the fight. If my opponent is moving around me while I simply do quarter turn pivots then he will be able to engage me at anytime, but I would have to catch up to him. I like the looks of that diamond step because it looks like it puts you a half beat in front of a circling opponent. I'm excited to try to drill this footwork today.

[wingedsaiyan]

in the first example of being cornered isn't he circling into the power hand? and in the swing step it looks like he's crossing his legs which is bad in MMA

[heat4yoass]

Wrong wrong wrong on the footwork. In boxing, when moving the back foot, the front foot should shift, then the back foot should shift towards it. Same goes for opposite, except your back foot will lead then your front foot. I should know. I'm not sure if this is only Muay Thai, but in boxing, you do what you did in a boxing match, you'll end up tripping a lot from simultaneous punches or by your own footing.

[Blahb27]

@heat4yoass The video description says it's for kickboxing right? That swing step can be used to quickly power up kicks from unexpected angles, and against people who are moving around you at close range.

I've actually won on that once. The opponent was much smaller but much faster. I was steamrolling best I could, into the corner, and he was slipping out to my left. Then I did that swing step and launched it into a midkick.

No block, so it broke his will to fight. And my metatarsal bone. ;-)

[phantasmo14]

this is really good. its a nice short cut with sacrificing striking ability. thank you for the video

[BoricuaAltaHueso787]

Good instructer

[Nitrixx7110]

Superbe salle!! Si seulement il pouvait y en avoir des comme cela chez nous! :) Nice vid ;)

[captinv]

Hi, nice work. you said the foot work was the influence of many different arts. Which ones aside from boxing and thai? thanks

[Thepasteycypriot]

Great tutorial, thanks for posting.

[kickboxerk1]

veeery goood dude. i just needed that tip thanks

[FUSSYMUAYTHAI]

A VERY VALIENT ATEEMPT AT DEMONSTRAITING AND TEACHING ADVANCED FOOT WORK. ALL THIS NEEDS IS FURTHER ELABORATION AND BETTER EXAMPLES AND PRODUCTION QUALITY .

PLEASE DO YOUR PIVIOTS WITH ALL YOUR WEIGHT OFF YOUR HEELS! AND IF POSSIABLE STEP INTO THE DIRECTION OF YOUR PIVIOT AN INSTANT BEFORE YOUR EXECUTE SAID PIVIOT.

THIS STEPPING INTO YOUR OPPONENTS POWER ??

YOU MUST HIT YOUR OPPONENT(BREAK THERE RYTHEM) PREPRITORY TO CLOSE RANGE PIVIOTING OR SLIGHT STEP OUT AND THEN PIVIOT INTO THEM.

[YouthFist76]

Thanks for posting, great vid!

[SuckMehDook]

Best thing to do against a new guy is keep pressuring him then he'll back up then body kick. works everytime LOL

[smokenfly514]

I really don't get 3:40

[Merchantwun]

um a little bit confused about the circling/pivoting into the right hand. I myself use my left as a power even though I'm a righty..so my jab is just as lethal as my cross is. ...i don't know, could you break that down for me. cuz in my mind it wouldn't matter

[MrSnugglemuffin]

nice looking gym

[121212Arsenal]

great video . . thanks

[muayjitsu87]

This was great help. I actually practiced this and think it works great; it helped me a ton in my sparring and thai boxing tournament. I won first btw :)

[rokcrawler09]

too much switching of your stance can confuse an amateur, and is bad if you can't fight from that position. Moving into the power side is okay if you have a plan of attack or counter. To always move away from power makes you one dimensional. I train my fighters to attack from all directions. It didn't matter if bisping would have moved away from henderson's power he still would have gotten ko'd!.

[crabbit87]

@rokcrawler09 Well if you have good footwork you only need one punch.

[smellyfishrock]

circle into his power? thats a bad bad bad idea bispen vs henderson

[44rumblefish]

@smellyfishrock,

Agreed. I only step into his power to set something up, or faint a move. Then I get the hell back, or out of his range. The only other extreme is when opponent is tired and slow and I'm not. But my stand-up is Muay Thai, so there are a lot of elbows, kicks, knees, etc. Also, we open up our stance a lot more to get a more powerful lead hand: bad side to our positioning, we make our selves "a bigger target." That's why moving toward a guy's power is a serious mistake in my style.

[manytoolsmike]

great instructional

[gcbarone]

Thanks for the vid

[batmanufc18]

excellent footwork and excellent video

[alexstrote]

Shutup.

[berzerkerjoey]

This is good advanced footwork. when you train a long time, theres a point where your trainers evetually tell you to do something that youve been taught not to sometimes.

[imbrandonj]

if i were you i wouldnt have included "boxing" in the title. Now youre gonna get alot of western style boxers assuming that this is for their practice. Its not. This is terrible for boxing. But it can be great for kickboxing/mma. Not really orthodox for muay thai. Also, you can really get yourself caught up in some of these movements, which in turn will fuck you up. Overall, good video, good instruction.

[danjl87]

this sucks, not even amateur level, try doing this sloppy shit in a fight and youll get yourself killed

-boxer

[sammaggard]

@danjl87 this is first thing you need to learn is good footwork and a good base. this is what karate would do for you. you shouldnt talk btw.

[snubnoze707]

The angles and pivots are correct but he keeps touching his feet and blading his stance

[RealContactFighter]

Oh?

[eddietheboy230]

this is not very advanced

[imhotshitboi]

also i knw that alot of mma fighter dont

even try to perfect their stand up if your guards good and your sprawl and u got a good d learn ya stand up

[imhotshitboi]

ima boxer myself and i also do mma at

vision mma in cincinnati ohio and that is not even close to being good foot work let along advance is pivot was way off mma its fun the training is more intense then boixng 5 5 min rounds throwin kicks running grapplin we got a thing called kill the man where u dont rest u gotta atleast submitt or keep from getting submitted frm 12,20 how ever many ppl it is on that day and it ranges frm a buck 20 guy to a 200 pound guy

[Rjw623]

you arent hot shit, youre a retard

[areyoujellin]

the guy's heels are touching almost when he does the shuffle step....thats a big no no, a smart fighter would time that...when his heels are close together all he can throw is a shitty jab or a hook with no power and its hard to move away when ur feet are close together...someone will time the movement then explode on it....if they know what they are doing

[ryangruhn]

Watch the entire clip again. That is exactly what I'm saying.

[ThePoorBoy]

Really great stuff guys. Good to point out the "flat foot" issue in a lot of MMA. Few guys have great feet.

Just looked at your site too. Seems like a great place to train with a really great vibe and attitude. If I lived in your area, I would DEFINITELY be training there.

Good to see that you are a JKD school as well. It's interesting, because I read a (Karate) Joe Lewis interview awhile back where he mentioned that Bruce was becoming a neo-Muay Thai kind of fighter.

[SHAPESQUARE66689]

Excellent!

[Brettwbeyer14]

hmm.. i wonder if muhammad ali would've had trouble with this.

[bjjplayerz]

Pretty good vid

[ThaiClinch]

RealContactFighter:

Excellent video and instructions man. This is something so few people teach. I wish I had seen something like this when I first started fighting.

Thank you.

[Theruler1950]

Do u have any advanced boxing techniques that I can use??

[zdoshi6969]

very technical yet still very practical

excellent as a partner drill or a solo drill

"solo drill" you say?

yes "solo drill"!

"solo drill" as in kata?

yes i think this might just be the first MMA Kata

[Theruler1950]

by "solo drill" you mean "shadow boxing" ??

[zdoshi6969]

in a way

i've always said that shadow boxing was a form freestyle kata

however (and this is just in my definition i accept other definitions exist) a "true" kata is the practice of specific technique in a specific order facing specific directions

so since shadow boxing is so free form i would generally not consider it kata

however i have seem new boxers (of a particular trainer) practicing shadow boxing in a structured enough way that maybe it cross (and defiantly blurred) the line

[iamdanigga]

man this is mma not karate

[zdoshi6969]

i know thats why i said MMA Kata...

Don't get upset because i used a karate term, my comment was meant to express my belief that MMA is starting to become a style of MA all by itself with it's own unique training, it no longer look to "mixing" other martial arts, but to "being" a martial art (that obviously draws techniques from many sources),

[RealContactFighter]

Don't get carried away now =)

[s3165743]

very informative. good work!

[RealContactFighter]

Glad to hear you guys like it. There are a lot of influences in this material coming from all different types of arts. I've made it a promise to myself to make sure my fighters have good footwork instead of the flat footed, stagnant footwork we see these days in modern MMA. I think the footwork is going to be the next huge breakthrough.

[Darce223]

@RealContactFighter Well, you see guys like Anderson Silva using footwork to gain the upper hand all the time, so I think you may be right there :)

[renoboy666]

A long time ago one of my instructors -- Jearl Sutherland of Wytheville, Virginia -- stressed that footwork is perhaps more important than what strike you actually intend to use. He got this idea from one of his instructors -- Joe Lewis. At one time I drilled a lot of footwork and had my students do the same, but I got away from it. Your clip has inspired me to begin reemphasizing the importance of footwork. Thanks!

[admbjj]

B-E-A-utiful work guys!!