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Even boxing, even though you punch with your hands, a good fighter is all from the legs. Punching power is from the legs, your ability to defend yourself from the legs, it's all legs. It's all about how you move. If you have good legs, good footwork, if you move well, like Floyd doesn't get hit. It's not because of his head moving, it's because of his body, his feet. Punching power is all leg related. Getting your technique right is going to improve your punching power far more than training, physical strength. Does that make sense? I'm going to teach you how to box in 10 minutes.
and you got a machine gun. Machine gun you can miss sometimes. Sniper rifle you got hit. The difference between a machine gun and a sniper rifle, is the reload time, right? Machine gun you can miss, 'cause you can just quickly reload it. Sniper rifle you got a fucking bolt action all this balls. Exactly the same thing. Every single weapon has a reload time. So when you're fighting as a professional, the reason I don't just go in there and start swinging, is because if I miss, there's a huge reload time, and I'm gonna get hurt, right? So your quickest weapon, that's the lowest reload time, is jab, it's gonna be your left hand.
left foot forward, right foot back. The heels of your feet shouldn't touch the ground. Your front heel can sometimes, but in general, perfect technique, your heels don't touch the ground. It's all in the balls of your feet. So it's like calf activation. When I was training, he put ink on our heels. And if you saw ink on the mat, we all got fucked. Your heel can't touch the mat for hours. Because when your heels are off the mat, you're the most springy, you're the most bouncy. You can move quick. Right? Your right hand is going to go up and it's going to guard your chin. Your left hand is going to
is going to be out a little bit, a little bit more forward. And the very basic premise of boxing is, find him with your jab, as soon as you find him, throw a power shot. That's boxing. Very simple version. Look, now there's a thousand different little technical changes we can make to make that better, but that's the basis of boxing. And the idea is, if you can't hit him with your fastest weapon, you're probably not going to hit him with your slower weapon. Right? So it's jabs, catch him, and when you catch him with a jab, all right,
So that's what we're gonna work on first. Feel it land, feel the power. You got a gum shield in already? I'm ready. Try and catch me with a jab. Jab me. Good. As soon as that touches, as soon as that touches, as it goes back, the right hand comes out. Boom.
Twist at the end. Why the twist? To increase your punching power. There's a difference between an amateur and a professional. A bullet is so deadly, not because of the amount of pressure it has, but because it's such a small surface. If you reduce the surface here, you increase the pressure. So what most people do when they throw a punch,
They don't think about how their hand lands. So, stay still. If I land with the flat of my hand, or if I land with one knuckle, you feel the difference. It's the same amount of force. But it's concentrated, you see. So if you whack, whoosh, and it's one knuckle, it snaps the bone. And that's where you twist, because it aligns your knuckle. It aligns your knuckle better. If you keep it straight, it's gonna be the flat of your hand. - That's a massive difference. - It's massive. People don't know. People don't realize it's the thing. That's how people get cut. That's how they fracture orbitals, because they catch one good bang with the knuckle,
The bone breaks. It's too much force concentrate in a small area. So if I'm punching, let's say a thousand hundred miles an hour, let's say I'm gonna do more damage if that lands in the smallest area possible like a bullet So that's why you twist you wanna get your knuckle in and even with the glove on you can feel it I can feel with my glove on if I land knuckle I can I can feel his face snap through the glove So I'm gonna really twist the knuckle into his bones. So Mike's about to fuck me up. I had no idea. You want to land with this knuckle in the middle if possible. That's it. These two can break.
If you miss bring it back don't go leave it out here because you're gonna be open for a right hand see so the right hand can come over the top Jab you missed back. If you touch as soon as it comes back right hand forward. Mike's gonna beat me up. Should I be wearing a gum shield? Why not?
Boom, there goes the right hand. So you missed. You didn't throw it. You landed. Yeah. It was the right hand. You touch. You always follow. You got to train your brain. If this touches something, that follows. Because if you touch me with this, you know where I am. You know I'm there. You know that from now. This is going to be longer than your jab. This is going to be all the way long, like this. You're going to pivot, twist on your foot. Boom. All the way through. If your jab misses, you don't want to throw that because you're going to be open for countless. If you land the jab, whack.
Good. Good. Good. All right, now we move on the hooks. There's two kinds of hooks. You can hook like this, which is all about the knuckle, like we talked about, so there's less physical power because the way your arm works. Doesn't have as much force, but your knuckle lands better. Or you can hook like this, which is more physical force, but it's harder to get the knuckle in. So that's more personal preference. You're probably going to like to hook like this. It's more natural. Jab, cross, left hand.
Boom. See how they all load each other? This loads this. This loads this. Make sure you keep your right hand up when you hook. Because the number one counter for a left hook is a left hook. If you hook me, hook me hard. Power train. So it's like as soon as I feel it, we throw it. So keep your hand up. Nice. Right hand up. Good. Good. Good. Okay.
Good. Right hand up. Nice. Right. Now we're gonna work on your defense. Yes, it's shit. If my number one weapon's a jab, you have to learn to negate the jab. You negate a jab by parrying. So people who don't fight have this idea that you just keep your gloves up to protect yourself. But the problem is, is that that doesn't work. Because if you cover up with your gloves, cover up, like cover your face, right? If I punch, not even, if I punch 20%, right?
If I'm actually going to just like it's good your face will be a mess So the idea that you just cover up doesn't work because if I'm landing knuckle I'll break all the bones in your hand Your glove will go into your own head You can't just stack and stay there. You can't against it. Somebody can't fight Against someone who's big who can punch you're gonna get fucked up. Just saying you have to move You have to like move with it even if you block you have to like roll with the punch take the power away from it So with the jab you don't just want to let it hit you. You want to parry it
And we parry it with our rear hand. So, here we go, fighting stance. Jab me slowly at my face. Whenever I say anything, yeah, punch for real. Good. Okay, again. Jab again. Good. Okay, again. I don't block with my front hand because look how it leaves me open for your right over the top. I block with my back hands. My power hand, I block. So, jab. I tap it. No power, no force. Tap. A tap is enough to take an off course.
The reason I don't do a big correction jab, because if I do a big correction, you can probably get hook round faster than I get my hand back. Yeah. So I just want to tap it out the way. Jab me in the face. Jab me in the face. Jab me in the face. Good. Again. Good. Again. Again. Jab me. That's it. Just tap it. That's how I stop.
And we're taught in walks of school, as soon as I block that jab, the jab bang. Right? With this hand. So jab me. Boom. Again. Boom. Again. Or I'll hook. Again. Body. Whatever. So bang bang. Bang bang. Bang bang. That's how we're taught, right? So you're going to block the jab by this hand. Put your gum shill in. No gum shill. Perfect. Well, Mike looked good with one tooth missing. We're about to find out. You're going to have to punch at 5%. You'll be honest, don't. I don't miss. Right. So.
So when I jab you, so fighting stance, relax, keep that hand there, that's it, that hand there, walk with that one. Tap. That's it. Tiniest, less is more. Tiniest tap. Tap. It's too much. Your arms moving all the way down here. Good.
Good. Good.
You got it in front of your face. Keep it, keep it here. Because if you put it in front of your face, like if it's here.
If it's here, I fake a jab and I hook.
As you get better people start doing fakes and doubles. Good. Good. Good.
Good. Now as soon as you block, jab me back. You can hit me in the face. I'm going to get punched for 15 years. It doesn't bother me anymore. I'm used to it. My nose has been popped. It's fine. Good. Good. Good. Now we're going to add another little jab.
The reason I want to come at you is, jab, if I do this, you can't attack your arms in the way, you can't throw a hard punch with this, your own arms in the way. You understand? But I can counter here. I can counter here. I can counter here. So I want to use my inertia and my weight to come forward to increase the power of my punch. You understand? So when you block the jab, you come at them. So if we were fighting for real, we'd be here. And when you jab me, jab me in the face for real. Jab me in the face for real. Hard, fast. Good. Jab me in the face for real. Good. Okay. And go.
That's when I come at you. So you block and come forward. Make sense? So now when you block the jab, come at me. Beat me up. And you can either throw a jab back or you can throw a left hook as well. Left hook to my other. And then we'll do body punches and then you're not a box and then you're a professional. Well, okay. He's a good coach though. Like, I'm learning quick. I'm learning quick though. If you know why you're doing it, it makes more sense. A lot of boxers just say do this, do this, but not to him. Why?
This should be done that way. So slowly I jab, come forward and jab. Perfect.
Good. Good. Good.
Everyone knows hitting in the head. Every punch you can throw in the head, you can throw the body. Same. You can throw right hooks to the body, but they're a lot less effective than left hooks. So if I do with a little bit of force, the left probably hurts more than the right. So the left body hook is like the knockout, it's the turn off button. It's probably
Every fighter who fights long enough knows it's much worse to get hit here than to get hit in place. If you eat one of these, don't move, if you eat one of them properly, it's like money in the bank. You hit in the first round and you feel it in round five. It just fucking hurts forever. It's like a stitch. Is the opponent tense when they're getting hit or is there sometimes you'll get them when they're not even tense? Exactly, and then they're really fucked. So if they know it's coming, they can prepare. But if you catch them on a counter or you catch them when they're breathing in or something, it's alright. So left body hook is the number one primary body punch.
to the face so i know what that feels like i'm not being properly i'm not saying i want it
but i can't imagine what it feels like again don't all right i have plans for the rest of this afternoon so that's the left body hook then the jab just like you do the face you can do the body and you aim right here just below just on the sternum if i jab your body i jab to the sternum so what if you're fighting and i was pro i'd jab your head you have your head and you're gonna come in here
because there are three most important body punches. You can do body crosses, but they're risky, because they need you very open. You're sitting on your face very open to your knees, but I wouldn't recommend them at first. That's it, so you can hit the head, you can hit the body. Now we're gonna spar. He knows how to box now. Now we're gonna spar. One last little sparring session, and we're done.