How Should YOU Hold Your Hands???
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2023
- There are many different ways to position your hands during a fight. Today I run you through 5 of the most common options in the hope you will try them all out and develop your ideal guard.
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200K. You know it's time for a celebration giveaway.
That will be coming soon. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed 🙏
well deserved 200k Varga. Quality and consistency video alwaysss
Great videos and useful advice! Hope to see you at 1mil soon, you definitely deserve that!
No Champion. Thank you! 🫵😊
nice
Congratulations ! Do a video with the INCRICATE DETAILS of the Dutch Guard as an EFF-U to Andrew Tate ! PLEASE !
Dutch guard frees my brainpower for counters and attacks
Yes. I find it takes the least focus. Everywhere else I need to be ultra focused.
By decreasing your brainpower in the long run😂
the true dutch style spirit lol. Put your hands beside your face and bang
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True Dutch style. Very effective for CTE
CHAPTER LIST:
00:50 Why Different Gyms have Different guards
01:35 DUTCH STYLE GUARD
02:45 ENGLISH SCHOOL PUGILISM GUARD
03:45 RUSSIAN STYLE PUGILISM GUARD
04:45 MUAY THAY GUARD
06:15 MMA LOW HANDS GUARD
07:10 Working with variety
This Definatelly needs to become a series! Or at least a part 2... Thothere already is a lot of love for long guard, philly shell (half guard if you're oldshcool) and cross guard (crux guard you're a dinossaur) around yt...
+1, give us a series on the in-depth pros and cons of all the different guards! Maybe with examples of fighters that utilize each effectively
all these guards are used in muay thai.
Im a thaiboxer who uses the english guard mainly
stop the cap, 2:45
@@user-eb2kv7bg4t oh, might have fumbled a few😅
how do you call this one mate?
One of the things that wasn't touched upon with low guard was how it enables better takedown defense at the cost of being more vulnerable to strikes, another reason it is seen more in MMA than in other styles tat bar grappling
Also is good for creating momentum on kicks if you are out of punching range
high guard is the best for self defense & most of boxing imo. Most people are head hunters, few are liver killers. And the torso just like the legs you can condition them.
You cant condition your face a lot.
use them all, have a base defence but utilize them all to make you harder to predict and therefore harder to counter
It's crazy how much you can tell from a gameplan/focus just based where a person's hands are.
Shows why it's great having a diversity of sparring partners.
I teach Dutch guard for close range and being swarmed with punches, thai guard as a neutral position, and long guard for distance.
you have good strategies as I see
w advice from the man
Is this really you?
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The first few minutes about gyms and coaches trying to make everybody fight the same is so true. I hate that shit. They don't even take two seconds to understand the anatomy, strengths and weaknesses of the fighter to know whether the "advice" they are giving will be effective for them. It doesn't take a whole session to find out
The really good coaches take extra time to help students fine their own style.
But I've only seen that a few times
A long time ago when I used to do a lot of taekwondo (ITF style), there was only one "correct" way of doing anything; the way that General Choi originally said. Questioning was not allowed. Variation was not allowed. I'm not sure if this cult-like attitude is still in some traditional martial art gyms but it is something to stay away from.
Coach Varga on the come up. Stealing all your tips from every video for when I start my own kickboxing academy. Manifesting this for the near future. Cheers brother.
Congrats on reaching 200k subs Coach!
And thank you heaps for putting out high quality content.
You are one of the few YT content creators I fully trust and heed their advice to a tee when it comes to striking. 🙏💯👍
Congratulations for the 200k subscribers Gabriel. I am so grateful to you, sharing all your great knowledge and educating martial artists throughout the world.
Congratulations for the 200k subscribers. I hope you will continue to create more content like this. It really educate us about martial arts especially to us who have a very little knowledge about it. May God bless you always.
Congrats on 200k! I love learning from your content. Keep it up! 1 million willl be around the corner soon!
congratulations for 200K subs Varga.. Can't wait what's coming on this channel.
So happy for you man, I only fight like recreationally and your videos really have made a difference when I spar and amateur fight and shit. I hope you reach all your goals bro
Congratulations on reaching 200K subscribers Gabriel,l Amazing Accomplishment, and thank you for this video, I think it will definetly help me for developing my ideal guard!
One of the first, love your tips man really helpful, thank you and God bless you
Great great great work coach Varga🥊
Awesome video to commemorate 200k🤙🏻. Congrats, Gabriel!
Good video Gabriel. Always learn something new from your videos, even if small. And smalls good after as long as i been doing this stuff. Keeps me interested and motivated. Thanks.
Great fight knowledge on this channel 👍
I always do the Dutch guard and English pugilism style guard as well it’s what I gravitated to as well after over 3 years
GZ on 200k!
Excellent presentation. Wished I had found you 4 yrs. ago. Instead of wasting tons of money and travel time training in a traditional style. Keeping real champ! Thanks 👍
Thanks for joining the channel now.
I'll make sure to keep providing great content.
This was very helpful! I am just bouncing around different Muay Thai gyms and every coach tells me I need to hold my hands in a different way and it’s kinda frustrating to figure out what’s „right“
Congrats on the 200k aswell
Congrats on 200k - though it baffles me how your subs aren't way more, you should get a marketing guy or something... your personality, fight IQ and ability to communicate it clearly to transfer that knowledge to others is all absolute gold!
U deserve way more bro keep up the good Work
Congratulations on the growth on your channel Gabriel, you deserve it. You have great, informative videos.
Thank you so much 👍
Congratulations on the 200k. You're putting out quality for years. Keep on growing, but more important keep on training, fighting and winning!
Another 2-8 fights left I think. I will continue to train hard.
Even once I'm done competing.
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Congrats for 200 k 🎉😊, great video 👌
When Kickboxing, I basically stand with Muay Thai footing and a really simple Dutch Guard for the most part because my main ways of scoring are jabs and straights, teeps, and leg kicks and simply because it’s what comes naturally to me
Ty coach gabriel. U r the best
this channel is awesome. I started sparring last week. I noticed I start in Dutch guard. Then after I gain some confidence, my arms extend a little more.
These videos are very quality and should be seen by more ❤
Great stuff again Gabriel! Need to show this to my kids. I like how you explain the styles of guards with the pros and cons. We have benefited a lot from the channel!
Glad you are finding it so helpful. And good for you for working with your kids on martial arts.
This was a topic I was looking for exactly! Thanks
Fantastic. I try to listen to your guy's request and get the videos made.
Fantastic video, a lot of fighters prefer offense to defense but don't realize until it is too late that they need the defense too for the when the offense gets sluggish or in exchanges.
Another great video, thanks
Awesome video man, just subscribed. Your content is class. Keep it coming coach!
Thanks for the sub!
congrats on the 200k!
Congrats!
Congrats on 200k subs Varga!
It‘s always a joy to watch your videos and they definitely helped me a lot.
Keep up the great work 💪
Thanks so much.
Love to hear the videos are assisting you
I think another important factor is vision and head movement. Tighter guards make it harder for you to move defensively and also make it harder for you to see. In boxing I prefer to have my hands a little out so i can see punches without clearly and also move my head.
For me its better to avoid or intercept a punch entirety, with high guard being a last resort. Some people really do punch hard enough to rock you through the guard, not most people, but some.
Gabriel - thank you for all you do! Your content is amazing, and I learn so much from you.
Question: could you speak to which guards are better for which body types? For example, I’m tall and I train Muay Thai, so I feel much more comfortable in a longer guard. Would you say that’s the right approach? It just seems to work better for my range.
That makes sense cause you don't want to be too tight or too long I use that mid style too. I try all the other ones and I feel more complete with this one.
Great advices 👌
Congrats on 200k
mr.varga, thanks for making this content for free
And the philly shell? Sean Strickland just proved that it can work in MMA.
I thought about it when I saw the thumbnail of this video too. That's why I'm here, just to find this comment. 😂
Middle and high kicks should work well against it. Kicks that arent much used in MMA due to takedown risk
@@umeshurocks"should work well" should have told that to Adesanya before the fight, become his coach instead 😂
@@umeshurockslmao well sean parried most of the high kicks
Great tutorial. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I feel like a long format video or a video series about different guards would be very useful.
Noted!
Great video Gabriel! What do you think of the cross guard/philly shell and it's application to kickboxing/muay thai rules?
Hey Gabriel great video! Maybe you could do a video on developing that “killer instinct?” I do great in sparring sessions when it comes to striking but fumbled when I got into the MMA cage. I still won but I knew my striking could be better. I was hesitant
Hey Gabriel, great video as always and congrats on the 200k - you'll be at the million in no time with your dedication 😊.
I think a breakdown video on Tawanchai would be incredible! His style is so crisp
This video taught me that literally everything works. Hands up, hands down, hands extendned, elbows tucked, elbows flared. There are pros and cons to it all. cool stuff.
If you're not an elite fighter you need to keep them up.
@@homelessman3483 if you have attributes like height reach and power, you can get away with it more. especially when lower hands help defend takedowns.
Good point on finding the guard that fit our style. Reminds me of a coach who blamed me for using a long guard during a sparring saying "you fight like you're confortable". Well yes I am 😂!
Great content as always and you probably get this a lot but you and Jeff (mmashredded) really should do a collab together. We've seen you with Fighttips, hard2hurt, sensei Seth. You and Jeff in a video would be fireworks!
Definitely going to happen. We've already chatted.
Just need to lock in a date
I like using the Philly Shell, it drives some of my instructions crazy but it works for me.
You should honestly have two guards you focus on, in my opinion. One for strikers/boxers, one for those that like to chute or rip lots of kicks. And the answers/suggestions are, again to your point, completely dependent on the martial art + what defense suits your natural body movements.
I've gained more from your channel than any other ones out there
Love to hear that. I'm still scratching the surface of what I can do with this channel.
Proper filming space, training partners and a punching bag and it's going to get extra special.
Our instructor in muay thay gym does not like dutch style guard at all. He says its wrong in muay thay becouse opponent can grap your hands and pull them and make a knee to your stomach. Also it lives you open for elbows to head.
Best bare knuckle guard
I have always liked the Superfoot stance. But you have to be quick on leaning backwards correctly and the Jab is a little more work because you have to bring it up than out. Other than that I feel more relaxed with the front arm down and feel like it saves you shoulder some strength.
My instructor told me to use a long guard "he also used". Because of my lack of depth perception, it would increase my perception.
The best stance if you don't have as much training as your opponent is the one where you grab your ankles and walk backwards at them.
One disadvantage that i see also of using those tight guards, is that when get hit, you get hit the gloves and occupy your vision, this can make your opponent to get better angles (a thing that Lomachecnko is very good on doing vs tight guards). Also because you are getting hit on the gloves, sometimes at both gloves, both are occuppied on receiving the shot so you are not able to counter punch so effetely at the same time or in that small frame of a second. Another disadvantage is that sometimes judges count those punches on guard, has points, because is hard to see if lands or not. I like to mix with a long guard, low hands (if confident and to rest) and tight guard where I'm cornered too pressured. Nice video btw, you could also add Philly shell
I like Dutch guard and long guard
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Now, the prpblem with the dutch guard is it being prone to getting dismantled with lead round kicks (in orthodox vs. orthodox)
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I use the Dutch guard when I have boxing gloves and the 2nd hands out guard that can parry in MMA gloves. At mid range I sort of use the 5th guard though only with my lead hand. My jabs can hit from unconventional angles and from below the usual field of vision and at mid range I can use head movement for punches and see kicks coming to back out.
In the pocket though, I use the Dutch guard almost exclusively, and a modified version with mma gloves
I am somewhere between Nong O and Superleks guard. I love real thai boxing. Difficult to be a Femur striker in dutch guard, that works best for people who lean more on the boxing. I like to have my hands more available for hand traps and such
Thanks for the info 👍
How do you think the Dutch guard would fair without gloves? Like in a self defence situation.
Great video but what about Philly Shell?
Congrats Gabe on your 200K subs. For me your channel is the go-to place for the kickboxing sport. You are the man🏆
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Worth noting about the growing popularity of 4oz gloves in MMA and One Championship Muay Thai: guys are getting KO’d through and around high/tight guards due to the little defensive real estate the small gloves provide. I’m noticing the defensive style in those places shifting towards longer open guards + head/feet movement. This also allows for more play with hand traps “sticky hands” and elbows.
Most of us Joes who are training/sparring 16oz gloves still should practice and mostly rely on tight guards. Open “sticky” guard as well as Philly shell guards are still fun to play with tho ;)
Id agree but i think there is exceptions, marlon vera the ufc fighter has a very good tight shell guard that he makes work very well
muay thai fighters didn't have to change their defense, they always used long guards, in fact they are undoubtedly the best users of long guards.
another important point to note is that traditional muay thai doesn't make use of the dutch guard because it is a lazy static high guard, and muay thai figthers have always preferred an active muay thai high guard.
The guards used to be longer and more elbows and forearms based when boxing used 4 to 6 oz gloves. If you go watch fights from the 20s and 30s dudes are always handtrapping and crossguarding with elbows.
Hi Gabriel, are you gonna do an analisis in the next Adesanya opponent, Sean Strickland with his weird philly shell-parry style were he parry most of of attacks granting him the best strike defense in his weight class
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As a very lanky guy with long arms, I prefer long guard. But as soon as I enter into boxing range, I Switch to high guard
💯 Best of Both World's 👊👊
I wish you would have talked about both MMA gloves and boxing gloves. Since you have experience with both.
got a recent video for you on that.
4 oz vs 10oz and the differences it creates
ruclips.net/video/dKvs_It50wA/видео.html
can you make shorts of ur content my attention span cant handle this
As someone that's 6'4 I always did pretty good in sparring but always felt something was missing. It's like when you try to do certain moves shorter opponents do you just get hit. Nobody teaches the tall guys how to fight. After studying Vladimir klitchko and Larry Holmes my defense and counters have improved like 100%. I'm switching between a long guard and Philly shell and it's working pretty good. I'm not worried about the left hook for example because I can just do a little step back. My main defense isn't my guard. It's the space between us. The long guard and Philly style allows me to fire off jabs and probes to keep that distance. Then I can fall back to catching the arms on the inside, stepping back and slightly leaning, or tying up.
While it might be boxing centric, I found it's worked very well in sparring against class mates who do muay thai. I only have to worry about leg kicks, but they struggle to land hands since I can out maneuver them while they have that traditional Thai stance.
Dont sleep on the mid guard or long guard. Especially as a taller fighter that can get away with it. If you are 6'4 you shouldn't be trying to peekaboo and slip to the inside. Why do you want to be on the inside. Jab jab and jab some more.
I do Muay Thai, Dutch style of holding your hands is my favorite
you should try the muay thai long guard system, and if you are a Little more advanced learn how to use muay thai low guards. so you can look like a professional thai fighter
@@user-eb2kv7bg4t I prefer the guard a lot of fighters use in one championship Muay Thai. Much more Dutch than Thai style. But I’ll give it a try.
@@dontblink3042 no one use the dutch guard in one championship muay thai, they only use muay thai guards and muay thai stances
I like to utilize the Dutch guard, but Tawanchai braking Kiria’s arm was pretty brutal. Can you do a breakdown?
He didn't absorb the kick with both hands and he used his forearm.
You have to stay in the pocket with tawanchai or stick and move
Hello man. You can explain me the guard of Chingiz Allazov ? Please ? Thanks!
Any advice for me on my sparring videos?
what about the strickland shell
6:20 What if your hands are higher up but they’re still moving around a bit? Kinda like Rafael Fiziev.
Im pretty short and usually my sparring partners are taller than me. Been training MMA for 3 years. I tried utilizing a more dutch/standard boxing guard first (my background is boxing), but longer guards feel a bit easier for me. Example: Volk and Saenchai
Philly shell Is pretty much In a class of its own. Also I know boxing is not mma or muay thai.
I like peekaboo cuz it makes it hard to see what attack I'll throw. Arms legs it's all good👍basically the dutch guard
the dutch guard is crap try an active highguard
What about Philly Shell Gabriel?
Wich is better for streetfight as self defence? What if no gloves?
Great video! I use the dutch guard aswell, and i think alot of people that have issues with the dutch guard things you said some have, is due to a weak link somewhere? I found that even if one element is off, such as bad foot contact/not tighting core, not leaning into the guard slightly, not making proper arm contact with the body, it makes the guard frail and easily rocked around. This is just my opinion! But i do think the dutch guard has alot of small details that needs to be executed to make a strong guard, and if one of the links are weak you might get a frail guard.
Some people don't actually block or parry a punch they just sorta flinch and shell up and happen to block on accident.
Yeah you have to block with intention, thats why i like this guard sometimes since i can go toe to toe while being "safe" from uppercuts/cross/jabs, still have to adjust for hooks, but when im shelled up i always make sure im ready for that punch@@dirtpoorchris
I do feel like people's guards improve significantly after the first time they get rocked haha
isn't dutch guard a death sentence in a street fight?
I dont know i dont do street fights@@thomasmanana2958
Is the Philly shell something you could try in kickboxing? I've seen some karate stances with the hands on a similar pose of the Philly shell, it's pretty solid in boxing, so just wondering if it's viable when kicking is added to the mix
not the philly shell, but traditional muay thai has a guard where one hand is low and the other is high. i can show you some examples ----> ruclips.net/video/dbWmSzERsrg/видео.html
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but these are not all the guards gabriel,
there is a mixed one where left hand is more extended and right hand is closer to body. i think some called it the "fencing guard"
there is another where your left arm is low and protecting the stomach (mayweather philly shell)
So do u keep your hands open or closed in the Dutch guard?
Started at a mma gym where the instructor was big on Dutch style so naturally I do a Dutch guard with my shoulders a little forward. Now at a Muay Thai gym and the instructor keeps claiming I’m too tense and need to relax like a Muay Thai guy. Do I just take what I can? Or readjust everything because I already feel relaxed and comfortable