This video validated what I've been automatically practicing on the heavy for a year now. I was never quite sure if the framing and slapping was even worth doing.
I always incorporated open hand strikes into my training even before I did FMA because of the book (Solo Training: The Martial Artist's Guide to Training Alone) by Loren Christensen. He laid out a good case for them at a time when i never was taught to do anything but punch 😅
That talking part is important! Of Might💪and Magic👅! Also, simply picking up the heavy bag with crush grip between techniques or punches is a great workout. And you want to be fatal in that tired state.
Like this little video - and so much of what you are doing is, believe it or not, in classical okinawan karate. - close, inside, diagonal shift in, graps, elbows, heavy hand etc etc. Love the approach to bag work
I do this now and then :) If it's a bag that doesn't go all the way down, I'll incorporate downwards up groin kicks too, when in that self defense mode. I also use the bag in more of a combat sports mode.
Thanks for the video. I have to say, what an idyllic setting for your heavy bag, incredible to train and live by the water in a lush sub-tropical setting, because i'm assuming that's where you live?And also, i assume it's Florida? Cheers from frozen Scandinavia.
When you look at all striking and all martial arts 🥋 the low led kick dutch style amazing muay thai elbows , urban combatives open palm strikes all solid - so much to be the Well rounded fighter the one fighter I think who has Grappling and Striking Charles Oliver ia and mighty mouse I don't know who's better at combining it all any suggestions??????
Good stuff, as always. Favorite martial channel ever since I found it over a year ago. (Has it been two yet?) I especially enjoy the explanations of why things need to be done a certain way -- it is so easy to see a technique or a drill and miss something essential, if it is subtle. Some observations! Lose the shovel jab. That's more of a "score points for the round" boxing jab; it's not good for self defense. There is no power in it and no speed, and it's dangerous for your hand due to the angle of contact if you land the shot early. A shovel jab is meant to get your opponent to open up their guard a bit and try to punch back, because you keep scoring with the weird angle jab and they are falling behind in the round on the judges' scorecard. Replace it with a long rage uppercut from the same angle. That shot has your hand aligned early, so it's safer. It is faster, has better follow through to actually hurt the target and move the head, and is superior to the shovel jab for self defense. The only way in which it is weaker than the shovel jab is that you do lose a marginal amount of reach on the strike, which is easy enough to compensate for with a small adjustment to your footwork. I realize this advice might make you sad, as you spoke the words "shovel jab" with a lot of fondness. I suspect it is a favorite shot, it's a pretty sneaky shot and easy to land through a guard. Roughly 30 punches is the number of clean head strikes the average person can take before they can no longer fight, assuming none of those shots catch the vagus nerve for an immediate KO -- but a target can take 100 shovel jabs without going down unless you catch them perfectly on the front of the chin and KO them. I noticed that your low kicks throw you off balance as you land them -- you touch, but sort of bounce your leg off the bag and fall backward to recover your footing. Those kicks aren't supposed to just impact from momentum and stop after contact. They are supposed to drive through, as if you are trying to sweep through the target. Kicks have roughly 8x the power of a hand strike. You are getting less that 3x out of your kicks, by my eye. I suspect you practice kicks a lot in open air (shadow boxing), and that half of training kicks is important -- but what everyone neglects is training your balance for post-contact with the target. Place your legs against the heavy bag, by kicking in slow motion until your leg (or foot, for some kicks) is against the back. Find your balance in that position. Adjust your body so that the position feels comfortable. Do that drill until your kick is moving your into that comfortable position, where you aren't feeling off balance or awkward with your leg/foot against the bag. Now complete the kick, from that position. No momentum -- pushing power only. Complete the torque of your body, push through as slowly as you can. You are looking to develop follow thru power and a better sense of balance after contact. This last step of the drill will change how you think about kicking strikes. So many fighters sabotage their own power and balance because they don't account for the radical shift in where your point of balance is, post contact. It's important to learn that for the duration of any kick that has follow through, you are rooted to your target through the kicking leg. That point is part of your base from the point of contact until you begin to recover your leg, which in fighting terms is a VERY LONG TIME. This last one is not advice, just a question concerning the angle-off step you use to get your head off-line. How familiar are you with Baguazhang and Bajiquan? Angling off that way when right in front of a target opens you up to them taking your space. They can just step "through you" since your base (as you step and post step) is almost 90 degrees lateral to them as they step forward. I wanted to know how that close range angle-off step addresses this ramming threat. Is there a lot of balance transferred immediately to the front foot so that you pivot on it instead of falling? Is there a grab with the far arm that you can do to assist the pivot? Can you sink your point of balance enough to get under the ram, to press your feet against the ground and blunt the full power of the attack? I didn't see any pro-active countermeasures against being rammed in the step, so I'm not sure what is there. That step (diagonal at a range where it doesn't change distance much/any) is not one I've ever used or been taught to use, I don't know much about it.
Hey. I have a torn ACL which is why im kicking this way right now. I am only able to do so much force and am slowly building the confidence back. The shovel jab and any "punch" i throw is not for self defense to be honest but more for sparring and fun.
Nice! I got a tweaked knee that is recovering pretty well and this video is very helpful. Personally, I add Bajiquan elbows with Goju palms and Baji mechanics with Goju structure on the heavy bag. Works wonders for heavy dudes like me
Just to add a funny story on punching bag. Long time ago, after watching Bruce's movies, every kid wanted get a punching bag. Me, being a poor boy, could not afford to buy one. So, together with some friends, we gotten a gunny sack, filled it with fine sand and hung it up on a tree branch for some fun punching and kicking our soft DIY bag. In the place where we lived, there is plenty of rain and sunshine, over time, sand became hard like concrete...punching hard it thinking it is still soft, was a huge mistake and that ended our fun punching. Lesson learned, look before you leap or punch. 🤣🤣🤣
Power push followed by leg sweep. Especially if they are top heavy.. (never skip leg day) 👍 Just got my 15” aqua bag. Everyone loves them, can’t wait to beat the hell out of it!
It's very person dependent. I am on the balls of my feet a lot for movement but in the pocket I ground myself a lot more and sit on my entire foot if that makes sense and get tighter.
This is great stuff. I’ve done some of this stuff. Instinctively but glad to see it being formalized. Really cool retirement community you live in bro 😂
You don't want to make demands on aggressive people with lines like "take it easy." Just add a "please," and it should be right. At least it's not as bad as "calm down."
@@cocokofman459 Got a place nearby with a tree? Some trees have some pretty soft bark so you can safely "smack" it without damaging your skin too much, all the while conditioning your limbs.
If stronger muscle gives stablilization to bones around it, stronger muscles give more resistance to impacts. A stronger neck protects you from punches so. By that logic,would be training the intercostal muscles useful for the ribs? The extra mass and strenght should be a net benefit, kyokushin guys train bracing a lot. From your experience in it, can training your chest muscle help taking blows?
For sure it can. More muscle and even fat tbh absorbs better than the tissue undernesrth. The intercostal muscles are small so I’m unsure how much more padding they can give but they definitely support the rib structure when they are well developed and that helps almost any style
Yes, I’d expect it to work, posing as you don’t want to fight and then punching first. That’s some Cobra Kai teachings. It would work because you’re acting as you’re de-escalating but then actually escalate things. Something is a bit off with this mentality, training for this behavior isn’t for everyone.
@antonym00 In a situation where you already understand you're being harassed and verbally assaulted. It may be advantageous to practice things of this nature. Legally speaking, if you think you need to wait to be hit first in order to defend yourself, that's absolutely incorrect. Scenario based training is just that training for unpredictable scenarios. Hope this helps 🙏
Literally the only intro I watch every video 😂
Thanks brother!
💯🤣👏
It's pure!
I don't care if I sound like a dork. I sing along with it.😂
Yes👍
It's catchy and unique. I love it.
That sound for knuckle strikes is a great indicator 👏
Glad you like it 🙏🏼
This video validated what I've been automatically practicing on the heavy for a year now. I was never quite sure if the framing and slapping was even worth doing.
Sweet, beautiful example of how i can make my Bass Rutten "bone strikes" work with my Fma/52blocks training. Thxs!
Nice mix of styles
I always incorporated open hand strikes into my training even before I did FMA because of the book (Solo Training: The Martial Artist's Guide to Training Alone) by Loren Christensen. He laid out a good case for them at a time when i never was taught to do anything but punch 😅
I’ll have to check it out 🙏🏼
I live your RAID system. Great drill to complement it. You and your content are such a treat! Thank you for your time, work, and energy!
Really appreciate that 🙏🏼
I really like it. Very good stamina! Practicing ,moving, striking and talking, not easy but important.
Thank you my friend!
That talking part is important! Of Might💪and Magic👅!
Also, simply picking up the heavy bag with crush grip between techniques or punches is a great workout.
And you want to be fatal in that tired state.
Yes this bag is way too heavy for me to throw around lol. I may buy another one that’s 80 pounds i think this one is 120-140
Like this little video - and so much of what you are doing is, believe it or not, in classical okinawan karate. - close, inside, diagonal shift in, graps, elbows, heavy hand etc etc. Love the approach to bag work
Appreciate that man. I have come to really appreciate okinawan systems
I really want to connect with you. It's nice to see someone who can change ranges beyond sport. Where are you located?
I’m in south Florida. Appreciate the kind words
That stabby jab on the water bag, I've always found that easier and faster to throw with my fist vertical.
Yes the isshin Ryu style jab. It works well.
Yeah, but I think it's because of the range. Horizontal fist feels better than at long range
Excellent!
Thank you 🙏🏼
Looks like you're on the Little River or Biscayne Canal. Do you have a school that you train locally?
I’m in Fort Lauderdale on the middle river canals. I teach in My backyard Privates’s and train at some schools in the area. 🙏🏼
Great Video, thank you.
I have this same heavybag (mine is black AND green) and I love it.
It’s the heaviest heavybag I’ve ever used 😅
Awesome stuff , I’m boxing with my mate teaching me at 56 but love your self defence stuff 👌
I do this now and then :) If it's a bag that doesn't go all the way down, I'll incorporate downwards up groin kicks too, when in that self defense mode. I also use the bag in more of a combat sports mode.
Great thinking outside the box
Thanks for the video.
I have to say, what an idyllic setting for your heavy bag, incredible to train and live by the water in a lush sub-tropical setting, because i'm assuming that's where you live?And also, i assume it's Florida?
Cheers from frozen Scandinavia.
Thanks very much. It is Florida. Feels like another world outside sometimes. Really a blessing
@@inside_fighting Thanks buddy!
Outstanding video and on point. Thank you for sharing!! 😊
Appreciate that!!!
Great training - Thank you for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you, Ilan!
Glad you liked it.
When you look at all striking and all martial arts 🥋 the low led kick dutch style amazing muay thai elbows , urban combatives open palm strikes all solid - so much to be the Well rounded fighter the one fighter I think who has Grappling and Striking Charles Oliver ia and mighty mouse I don't know who's better at combining it all any suggestions??????
Mighty Mouse in my opinion is the best mixed martial artist ever.
Fantastic stuff !!! Thanks Bratha 👍🌸
Appreciate that man 🙏🏼
Good stuff, as always. Favorite martial channel ever since I found it over a year ago. (Has it been two yet?) I especially enjoy the explanations of why things need to be done a certain way -- it is so easy to see a technique or a drill and miss something essential, if it is subtle.
Some observations!
Lose the shovel jab. That's more of a "score points for the round" boxing jab; it's not good for self defense. There is no power in it and no speed, and it's dangerous for your hand due to the angle of contact if you land the shot early. A shovel jab is meant to get your opponent to open up their guard a bit and try to punch back, because you keep scoring with the weird angle jab and they are falling behind in the round on the judges' scorecard. Replace it with a long rage uppercut from the same angle. That shot has your hand aligned early, so it's safer. It is faster, has better follow through to actually hurt the target and move the head, and is superior to the shovel jab for self defense. The only way in which it is weaker than the shovel jab is that you do lose a marginal amount of reach on the strike, which is easy enough to compensate for with a small adjustment to your footwork. I realize this advice might make you sad, as you spoke the words "shovel jab" with a lot of fondness. I suspect it is a favorite shot, it's a pretty sneaky shot and easy to land through a guard. Roughly 30 punches is the number of clean head strikes the average person can take before they can no longer fight, assuming none of those shots catch the vagus nerve for an immediate KO -- but a target can take 100 shovel jabs without going down unless you catch them perfectly on the front of the chin and KO them.
I noticed that your low kicks throw you off balance as you land them -- you touch, but sort of bounce your leg off the bag and fall backward to recover your footing. Those kicks aren't supposed to just impact from momentum and stop after contact. They are supposed to drive through, as if you are trying to sweep through the target. Kicks have roughly 8x the power of a hand strike. You are getting less that 3x out of your kicks, by my eye.
I suspect you practice kicks a lot in open air (shadow boxing), and that half of training kicks is important -- but what everyone neglects is training your balance for post-contact with the target. Place your legs against the heavy bag, by kicking in slow motion until your leg (or foot, for some kicks) is against the back. Find your balance in that position. Adjust your body so that the position feels comfortable. Do that drill until your kick is moving your into that comfortable position, where you aren't feeling off balance or awkward with your leg/foot against the bag. Now complete the kick, from that position. No momentum -- pushing power only. Complete the torque of your body, push through as slowly as you can. You are looking to develop follow thru power and a better sense of balance after contact. This last step of the drill will change how you think about kicking strikes. So many fighters sabotage their own power and balance because they don't account for the radical shift in where your point of balance is, post contact. It's important to learn that for the duration of any kick that has follow through, you are rooted to your target through the kicking leg. That point is part of your base from the point of contact until you begin to recover your leg, which in fighting terms is a VERY LONG TIME.
This last one is not advice, just a question concerning the angle-off step you use to get your head off-line. How familiar are you with Baguazhang and Bajiquan? Angling off that way when right in front of a target opens you up to them taking your space. They can just step "through you" since your base (as you step and post step) is almost 90 degrees lateral to them as they step forward. I wanted to know how that close range angle-off step addresses this ramming threat. Is there a lot of balance transferred immediately to the front foot so that you pivot on it instead of falling? Is there a grab with the far arm that you can do to assist the pivot? Can you sink your point of balance enough to get under the ram, to press your feet against the ground and blunt the full power of the attack? I didn't see any pro-active countermeasures against being rammed in the step, so I'm not sure what is there. That step (diagonal at a range where it doesn't change distance much/any) is not one I've ever used or been taught to use, I don't know much about it.
Hey. I have a torn ACL which is why im kicking this way right now. I am only able to do so much force and am slowly building the confidence back.
The shovel jab and any "punch" i throw is not for self defense to be honest but more for sparring and fun.
Great video mate, your channel has grown a lot since i first subscribed over 2 years ago from that Wing Chun Video you made
Nice! I got a tweaked knee that is recovering pretty well and this video is very helpful.
Personally, I add Bajiquan elbows with Goju palms and Baji mechanics with Goju structure on the heavy bag. Works wonders for heavy dudes like me
Sorry to hear about the knee. I also messed up my knee it sucks
You do realize your channel name is Inside Fighting, but most videos have been outside lately🤠. Okay, please continue…
Hahaha fair play. But i covered the top at least so it’s almost inside
@ nice place you have there. Looks like Florida inland waterways. Watch for gators🐊
@@JosephBannister-k3p it’s south Florida Fort Lauderdale so the water is brackish cuz it comes from the intercoastal.
Great content 👌
Just to add a funny story on punching bag. Long time ago, after watching Bruce's movies, every kid wanted get a punching bag. Me, being a poor boy, could not afford to buy one. So, together with some friends, we gotten a gunny sack, filled it with fine sand and hung it up on a tree branch for some fun punching and kicking our soft DIY bag. In the place where we lived, there is plenty of rain and sunshine, over time, sand became hard like concrete...punching hard it thinking it is still soft, was a huge mistake and that ended our fun punching. Lesson learned, look before you leap or punch. 🤣🤣🤣
@@seechunchong9876 actually it sounds like an amazing training tool lol
Power push followed by leg sweep. Especially if they are top heavy.. (never skip leg day) 👍
Just got my 15” aqua bag. Everyone loves them, can’t wait to beat the hell out of it!
I love leg sweeps for self defense above all other takedowns. Enjoy that aqua bag.
This is brilliant.. do you recommend stepping on and off the balls of the feet when moving ?
It's very person dependent. I am on the balls of my feet a lot for movement but in the pocket I ground myself a lot more and sit on my entire foot if that makes sense and get tighter.
This is great stuff. I’ve done some of this stuff. Instinctively but glad to see it being formalized.
Really cool retirement community you live in bro 😂
Hahhaha i gotta enjoy these final years brother
Another good one, Ilan. Thank you! Do you recommend a specific brand or size water bag?
I actually got it from the company called Aqua training Bag.
Thanks Brother
BARS🔧🔥
You don't want to make demands on aggressive people with lines like "take it easy." Just add a "please," and it should be right. At least it's not as bad as "calm down."
Wish i had that set up!
I do often do similar sorts of things in shadow box tho lol
This is my dream set up finally 🙏🏼 I’m out there every morning
I'm in a 2 bedroom apartment in bondi Australia, I should be grateful but yea only outdoor space Is a small balcony
@@cocokofman459 Got a place nearby with a tree? Some trees have some pretty soft bark so you can safely "smack" it without damaging your skin too much, all the while conditioning your limbs.
Not familiar with the water bag but overall I think its best to train with the heavy bags when you’re training alone
They both are good but completely different purposes for sure.
If stronger muscle gives stablilization to bones around it, stronger muscles give more resistance to impacts. A stronger neck protects you from punches so.
By that logic,would be training the intercostal muscles useful for the ribs? The extra mass and strenght should be a net benefit, kyokushin guys train bracing a lot. From your experience in it, can training your chest muscle help taking blows?
For sure it can. More muscle and even fat tbh absorbs better than the tissue undernesrth. The intercostal muscles are small so I’m unsure how much more padding they can give but they definitely support the rib structure when they are well developed and that helps almost any style
”Hey man I don’t want to fight”
*smack, smack, elbow to the face *
This is such a weird teaching.
Do the tattoos make you tougher
Absolutely
Lol
No penetration in any of those slaps or punches, I normally like your vids but not this example of "self defense techniques."
I always tell people they are welcome to come spar and feel it. I hit extremely hard. You can as some high level very well respected trainers.
Inverted triangle 📐 - typical FMA foundation ❤
Absolutely. Everything starts there 🫡
”Hey man I don’t want to fight”
*smack, smack, elbow to the face *
This is such a weird teaching.
Weird as in it works...
Yes, I’d expect it to work, posing as you don’t want to fight and then punching first. That’s some Cobra Kai teachings.
It would work because you’re acting as you’re de-escalating but then actually escalate things. Something is a bit off with this mentality, training for this behavior isn’t for everyone.
@antonym00 In a situation where you already understand you're being harassed and verbally assaulted. It may be advantageous to practice things of this nature. Legally speaking, if you think you need to wait to be hit first in order to defend yourself, that's absolutely incorrect. Scenario based training is just that training for unpredictable scenarios. Hope this helps 🙏