Damien Trainor’s Quick Breakdowns: Recognising Traps

RECOGNISING TRAPS: I’ve done a few posts about laying traps for your opponent. The more of these you learn to lay the more you’ll recognise when they’re being laid for you.⁣
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In this video you can see my opponent stride in to land a left knee. I recognise the movement and step to my left diagonally to avoid the knee and I throw a left hook at the same. ⁣
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The hook connects and scores a flash knockdown. My opponent seems annoyed that his attack didn’t work and looks to set it up again.⁣
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He fires a rear leg teep to see how I react and to set the trap of trying the land the knee again.⁣
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Almost straight after the push kick he raises his rear leg and pushes it forward similar to how he did the teep earlier. Instead of kicking, he drops the leg forward so he’s able to throw the left knee. ⁣
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However, this is a common set up and one I’ve seen many times so it was easy to read coming. As the knee comes I step diagonally out and land with the left hook again. ⁣
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Fighting isn’t just about throwing down. It’s about analysing, learning, adjusting then execution. ⁣
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Wonderful. Such a cerebral approach. This also shows the important of getting off angle in general to launch attacks. If you are seasoned enough to smell that trap, great. But even if someone isn't but still has the sense to enter off angle, they increase the chance of avoiding them.