The Art of Fluid Striking | Techniques and Tips

[Music] all right guys welcome to this video today in this one I'm going to be talking about how to increase fluidity and flow within your striking combos so many people watch athletes online move in you know somebody with really nice and aesthetic technique very fluid and flowy and they might wish to be able to move that way however when it comes to training themselves they just sort of can't replicate it and it's quite frustrating for them and what that person's doing is there's some very subtle movement patterns or slight tweaks they're making to their technique to make the movements look that way and so in this video I'm going to aim to highlight some of those things for you so that you can incorporate them into your training and improve your striking combos as a result now I think the reason that this stuff often kind of goes very unnoticed is because even instructors people who are sort of like bringing up the next generation of martial artists don't really even know this stuff themselves there are some really great instructors but many of them just don't really understand this kind of stuff they might even be able to actually perform the techniques themselves but then being able to of like explained to somebody who's not at that level and break it down is a really different level of understanding and requires a different skill set now this stuff that we're going to be talking about in this video is a little bit more advanced and so if you're at a super beginner level where you're just getting to grips with the basic techniques then this isn't really going to be applicable for you but if you've been training even just a few months and you're kind of familiar with those Basics you should start training this stuff I I think straight away because the sooner you start to get to grips with this stuff because it does require quite a good degree of body control and awareness then the sooner you're going to be able to improve your striking as a result now what I'm going to do is I'm going to explain the basic concept that I'm going to be speaking about and then I'm going to give a few demos of some combos of where I'm actually applying this to demonstrate now on the surface a combination might seem simple it might just be say a jab cross hook or something like that however there are infinite ways of executing that combo depending on the angle the starting position where you position your body and things like that your footwork all of this type of stuff and this is why it's very important to utilize different methods within your training regime because if you just stick to one then you're going to get too familiar with that and stagnate and then as soon as that stimulus switches up you're going to be really struggling and you're not going to know what to do so this is why for instance Shadow Boxing is very different to pads which is very different hitting a bag which is very different to sparring and so on all of these things are very different although they do use obviously the same set of techniques basic techniques and movements so we need to be able to adapt to different ones and what we're going to be talking about today is prioritizing the shot in your combination and how that affects your movement so what I'm going to show you now is a few variations of different Combos and how I would change it up depending on the scenario and how I wish to prioritize those shots and you've probably seen me speak about this concept with kicking techniques before and I always say about doing all of the work of the technique as soon as you can so that all you have to do at the end is like extend the technique and if I'm having to drag myself through this big wide range of movement before I kick it's going to be slow however if I'm able to shift my body very quickly from this position into this position then all I have to do is snap that kick out at the end so it's it's accelerating yourself through the movement early so then the technique happens much quicker and as a result it's going to be much harder to read from your opponent as well so the first one I'm going to be showing you today is a version of just the basic jab cross the one two and obviously when we learn this to start with we just go one two and this is always the way I teach it from here one two and then retracting back to guard okay down those nice clean lines but now I'm going to be talking about a different way of doing it I like to sometimes utilize and when it's done at speed you can hardly tell the difference but just kind of keeping this in mind and a lot of the things I do when I train and that are all kind of little mindful things that I'm doing that make all the difference and the difference with this one is instead of doing this basic jab across where I almost sort of throw the shot from here as I twist my body through and replace those shoulders so to here what I do instead is I emphasize putting my shoulder forward first like this and then it's almost as if the cross becomes like a jab and the reason you do that it's going to lose a bit of power it's never going to be as powerful as coming from back here but it's much less telegraphed and it's much quicker and I've seen Mayweather do this a lot in his um sparring videos as well that you can find on YouTube whereas it is Jim he will hit people and it almost looks like his cross comes forward like like a jab and hits like this so from here one and it's like pulling pushing the shoulder forward first then it comes out like a jab it's still a cross of course but it comes in so if I show you the two different variations a little bit faster hopefully that will make a bit more sense so if I do the basic one first I'll do two two versions of each one okay so the first one one two that's the basic one two then if I do the variation now okay one two one two and I pull it in if I do it from this way you should be able to see the difference okay one two that's the basic one two and then this is the changed version one two one two like this okay I feel that it's much less Telegraph because the shoulder comes forward first and you're not seeing this part here and our eyes really struggle to see things coming directly towards us they're much better at seeing from the sides so that's why this works now sticking to that same combination I'm just going to show you a different variation of it as well so obviously we've had this one where we push the shoulder forward we've had the basic one but now in terms of say this this probably applies more to longer combos as we're going to get into but you can also have a shorter cross okay and when I say a shorter cross the thing that beginners tend to do is they'll get like this and they won't turn their shoulders at all that's not what I'm talking about so in my same stance here if I'm then going to be adding another shot after the jab cross it doesn't make sense for me to be so far through like this because then I've got to drag my body all the way back through okay so if I was doing a shorter jab cross in the same way one two like this okay can you see how I'm still rotating through with that shoulder but I'm not pushing it all the way forwards and if I was prioritizing in power in that last shot I'd want to get everything into this into this area into this um last shot sorry so one bang through with that last shot however if I'm going to be throwing something after say like a hook it makes more sense for me not to extend too much on this because then I'm gonna have to do more work to get the hook out so the way that would look would be like this okay so instead of the one two that's the long one where you'd finish on the cross this one is Interstate hook so I'd go like this one two three like this three I'm still replacing the shoulders through but I'm just not going like this this would be the difference if I put Power into all of them one two three and you see outside one it's labored and slow so I'm almost taking a little bit out of the second shot in order to get that last one executed nice and fluidly and quickly and this is something that you can take into your training when you're practicing on bag as well because it's nice and solid it's a good Target to hit against because it's not going to move and you can really practice those different ranges and putting power into each individual shot now the next one I'm going to cover is a three hit combo and I think this one will be able to illustrate the point a little easier for you so this combo is going to be a jab uppercut lead hook okay so in order to if I was to just do the combo straight and put obviously that power into each shot it would look like this I'd jab turn my body through for the uppercut and then I'd retract this back and bring the hook through from here now that's all good but it's a little bit slow whenever we're striking something a lot of the strikes that we do in a combo obviously are not supposed to be knockout shots there to kind of set up the last shot so say for instance here if my hook is the prioritized shot the way I would do this instead instead of kind of turning through on each one is I would stay more side on I'd jab out as normal then instead of really turning my body through on the uppercut like this I would keep my shoulder back a little bit and I'd still throw it so I'd go one two like this maybe a little bit more than that one two to here then I bring the hook through from there because in this position rather than this position obviously for like a really turn through powerful uppercut I'm in a much better place to set up a nice fast hook Bang from there yeah because if I'm here then as I draw this one right through for the opponent in front of me from here one if I bring that big uppercut through as I bring that hook through you can see it straight away however if I'm from here and if I stay here with it and don't turn my shoulder through as much so jab uppercut then as I turn through for that hook it's much quicker and it comes from a much more sort of hidden place and you don't see it until it's too late a lot of guys in Muay Thai tend to throw every shot really hard there's nothing wrong with that at all but this stuff is more kind of like subtle boxing stuff in order to throw faster combos so I think it's good to be able to do both obviously if you can do the basic power shots adding this sort of like these subtle changes onto your movements is kind of a more advanced step so train both so the first one would be like this if I was putting power into all of them and really turning through one two three like this yeah one two three one two three right one two three now if I change the other version and stay a little bit more side on it also feels way more comfortable as well to do the combo so from here one two three yeah in one two three it's much tighter from there yeah now the last boxing example I'm going to show is we're going to be moving from our stands here I'm going to slip a shot and I'm going to throw a screw shot upwards to the jaw so you might have seen me doing this in that boxing training video that I uploaded last week the way I like to do this is if I'm just doing this shot and this is the only one I'm doing I'm going to put my whole body into it and watch how much I turn so if I slip from that shot if I'm stepping off the line in center of me here I turn over and then as I come back this jab is going to be very powerful it's still technically a jab but it's almost becomes a cross because can you see how my right shoulder which is my Crossing hands actually in front here then as I kind of like recall back I'll turn my whole body out like this I'm really exaggerating this here and sort of hitting upwards and my foot's turning out here as well that's when that's got nice a lot of nice power okay so if I step off bang and then we're trapped in okay now if I was throwing a cross on the end of that it wouldn't make sense to turn that much if I'm prioritizing the cross here if I turn out like this massively like this then I've got to do way more to get that cross cross into the target okay whereas if I just slip here the way I would do this from this position here is I'd hit out to here but I'm not going fully out like this okay I'm shortening it a little bit because then my cross hand has still got a nice um short distance to travel as soon as you take it too far back I've got to bring it all the way from back here right forwards okay and this is those subtle little changes so instead of that I would go like this one two instead of going right out like this okay if I was doing it just one I'd go like this slip and I'd hit in okay whereas if I'm doing the one two that's step slip hit I'll slip off the one if I'm just prioritizing the jab retract back and hitting or the screw shot sorry upwards and back in whereas if I'm prioritizing the cross on the end slip I'll hit here so it's the same shot exactly just not as much into it and then I'll hit through with that cross as well so one two like that as opposed to one big one okay slip hit hit and over sure now lastly we're going to focus on some kicking techniques and like I said this is exactly the same principle throughout all of these different things it's the same with the boxing and the same with the kicking shifting my body nice and quickly into the optimal position so that all I have to do is extend the kick and it's already almost like the kick 90 of the kick has taken place before it even extends if I was to do the kick how a lot of people do this is they will do everything all throughout the whole movement so it'll be quite slow and you'll also see it a lot out of this way so it'll come up like this okay and it's quite labeled it feels it feels slow for me and it feels awkward it feels quite sluggish whereas if I extend quickly forwards like this you see how it's like it comes right down the middle and then hits through rather than coming wide from the outside and then I don't really have any control of it afterwards either as opposed to shifting that body here into this position you see how like all I do is just extend the kick at the end and this happens through the pivoting of the foot now this is the same principle say if I want to deliver a low kick as well because the again the Bare Bones technique of a kick is to Pivot on this standing foot so that your hips get into the correct alignment and then you extend the kick however you don't always want to do that say for instance if you throw in a leg kick you don't want to come you don't want to turn right through every time on a leg kick like this because it's just going to leave you in a sub-optimal position afterwards so for this I would change this and I would do a leg kick and almost keep my body in this position which requires a bit of a degree of mobility and flexibility but from here I would turn through and I'd hit like this and then come back okay so the difference is this so if I want to put loads of power in I can turn right through obviously if I can see and open it but if I want to just tap the opponent and kind of um you know wear them down over time I'll move here and I'll bring it in like this can you see how almost like I rotate my body through this way and I don't need to Pivot as much especially because it's low and as you get high you do need to Pivot more in order to get that kick up otherwise it's going to start becoming like one of those half front kick half turning kick things so depending on which level you're at okay different versions of it so if I'm kicking low and I want to rotate through to put more power in I will rotate right through on that standing foot however if I want to just wear the opponent down like this as I'm moving I'll just tap in like this and I won't rotate quite as much and it allows me to get back into position easily as well so I hope you enjoyed this video today guys I've just shown you a few different Combos and ways to subtly change them and the way you would actually work on this in your sessions is by forcing yourself into different stimulus like I said you know using different methods Shadow Boxing pads bag sparring all different things you can do and you want to sort of change the ranges of different things obviously like if you're wishing to work on say that shorter cross for instance stand a little bit closer to your target don't always stay in the same range make sure you're moving around and make those angles awkward for yourself so that you have to change the way that you hit and so you're still able to apply power in those techniques as this video plays out I'm going to show a short Montage of a few different combinations and different variations that I'm doing in them to subtly change them just as we've spoken about in this video so thanks for watching guys and I will see you in the next video please [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] 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Published: Thu Jun 29 2023