 What's up, everyone? This is your third video on Introduction to Boxing and Striking techniques. I'm your coach, Hailey Pierce-Ranzel, and I'm so happy to have you with me on our third and final introductory video. So far, we know our stance, we know how to move, we've got our ones and twos, we've got our hooks, the threes and fours. Today, we're working on the moneymaker shots, also known as the uppercuts. You might be seeing them come from Mississippi, but today you're going to be showing how to throw them properly without one, hurting yourself, and two, without your opponent even seeing it coming. But before we get into the fives and sixes, it's really important that we review our basics of the ones and fours, just so that way when we get to the rounds later in this video, you'll be ready to rock all the way through the workout. All right, so here we go. I'm not going to review stance today. You already know what to do. And if you don't, go up top, we'll review them for you. So we get to that stance, let's put forward. Hands are going to be up. The ones and twos are extreme punches, remember? So we'll go one, two, one, two. Remember we focus on contact, hitting with those first two knuckles, getting that full rotation, full extension out, and retract that punch. So on the ones and twos, it'd be like if I was offering you a juice box, and then dumped it out in front of you right at the end. I know I'm not the nicest person around, but at least I know how to throw a punch. So again, ones and twos, ones and twos. Continue practicing those for as long as you want. And then jump back in and join us. I'm reviewing the threes and fours. From the stance that we've been working on this whole time, we're throwing rotational punches. So we go three and four, three and four. Remember the key to this one is practicing like we're stirring a big pot of soup. So we stir that big pot of soup and come on back. Stacking the wrist in line with all of the muscles and ligatures and bones in here to keep the maximum strength, threes, and fours. Whatever hand is not striking, should know the drill by now. It never leaves the side of your face, right? We always want to protect. So those are the one through fours. So now let's talk about one of my favorite strikes, the five and sixes. These are the uppercuts. These are the ones that you can hit right in the chin. And they hurt really bad if you're sparring. Hopefully you're not sparring yet. You're not ready to yet focus on the techniques first before you fight somebody. Please. Not a license to fight anyone you want. This is just basic training principles. So before we get started, let's get back to that stance. Hands up nice and high. Elbows into the body. We're ready to rock and roll. So the uppercuts involve a little bit more movement out of the upper body, but they come out so fast that you barely see it. So for this video, we're just going to show you kind of slowing that motion down so you can get the technique before we kind of go as fast as we want to. So hands are going to be up nice and high. We're basically going to drop, come up, and punch straight up. Kind of like a little bit of a hammer coming up. So we kind of drop and come up. So we'll go from feet all the way up. So this one involves a pivot yet again. Not a surprise. That's why I've been drilling so hard the past two videos, right? With pivot. Notice how this time my hip kind of comes through so you can see it a little bit. That gives me a little more leverage to come up underneath the chin or in between the gloves of my opponent. So we're coming up and punching out. It's a little easier to see. This one's a little bit more difficult to show on camera. So we're doing the best that we can. You're throwing the uppercuts the best that you can. That's all I could ever ask for as your coach today. So again, pivot, come up. Notice how my arm kind of extends outward a little bit. Obviously, we're not going to be face to face with our opponent. So we're not going to be able to punch straight here. So we're going to have to reach a little bit, but only coming up to our own chin height. We're up and back. Pause here with the cannex and back and back. So that's the five. The six. It's even more tricky because it's coming from that back leg, that rear leg. So this one might take a little bit more time for you to practice. That's quite alright. Let's just work through together to start. So we're in our stance. Again, work from the feet up. We pivot as we come up. So pivot, come up, notice. I'm straight and strong all the way through the upper arm. Straight and strong. Hitting with those two knuckles again. Reaching out a little bit so I don't punch myself in the face. I won't look too good either. And good. Try again. Let's try it from the side now. Left foot forward, right foot behind. Hands up, pivot out in front. Good. If you want to, you can try pivoting that left foot a little bit to get a little bit more leverage. But just for now, focus on pivoting that right foot to give enough power. Pause here, notice. Strong in the fist, strong in the wrist. Coming up and out so I don't punch myself in the face and come back. Out and back. So those are the fives and sixes. So you know the drill by now. We've got our new punches for this video. Now it's time to add a little bit more challenge to your rounds for this week. Same format. Three-minute round. They'll do 30 seconds of punching, 30 seconds of a strength exercise, and they'll just alternate that for three minutes. One minute of rest in between rounds. Repeat it as many times as you're feeling comfortable today. Let us know how it goes. So let's get started. In that stance that bell goes off, your timer starts whatever the case may be. We're throwing one, two, five, two. So one, two, five, two. One, two, five, two, one. Okay, so that's a little bit more of a difficult combination to start slow and then start putting them together so they move and flow a little bit faster. 30 seconds of punching is done. This time we're doing bodyweight squats. This time I encourage you to have a weight with you if you haven't been doing so already. Feel free to make that weight a little bit more heavy if you're feeling it today. Then we're coming back to striking. So this time we're throwing a one, six, three. One, six, three. So that's a jab, rear uppercut, we need to look. One, three. Again, start slow with the one, six, three, and then get faster as you feel comfortable. This time we're going to add a little bit more to challenge the cardio exercises. So we're doing a steeper if you can next 30 seconds. Various modifications for this, but I'll show you the basic technique. Hands are going to go down to the floor. Feet are going to kick out into a high plank position. Stand up nice and tall. So hands down, feet back, stand up nice and tall. So you're going to do those 30 seconds. Know it seems like a lot, but you're up for the challenge before we get into our last 30 seconds of striking. Wish to put all the numbers together. Make nice and easy. One, two, three, four, five, six. Again, one, two, three, four. Feeling as fast as you want to throw. Slow as you want to throw them. If you're hitting the bag, that's awesome. You're punching the air. That's also awesome, but we're just practicing all six of the punches. So keep going. One, two, three, four, five, six. Before our last 30 seconds of this round, we're doing the speed burpees again. I'm not going to show it to you again because your girl is tired already, but I know you can do it. So that is our introduction to striking. You've learned movement. You've learned stance. You've learned the first six punches, so you're ready to rock and roll. Feel free to add any kind of punches or techniques to the rounds that you create for yourself. Be creative. Give yourself a little bit of challenge and have fun.