How do I find the Prep for sparring course? Do I have to just subscribe to your courses and it’ll be available there or is there a separate program for it?
Light and technical sparring is the best tool to improve your sparring. Also help your sparring partners improve. By helping your Sparring partners become better you make it more challenging for yourself. No one improves in their comfort zone. One person I spar with was so used to hitting pads that they’d punch my gloves in the same pattern we’d hit pads while sparring. If I opened my guard their punches would follow my gloves. I had to encourage them to aim for my face or body. They have since improved substantially and if I drop my guard they are quick to slip a punch past my guard to remind me to get my hands up. Their offence has improved so in turn my defence has improved.
Wow! That's exactly what I've been doing since I started kickboxing some months ago. I'm used to hit the targets and therefore the gloves, and each time I hit my partner's faces I'm worrying if I hurt them, even though I'm throwing very light punches. I still can't get rid of that "fear" of hurting them even though I'm not a strong person and they have no problem hitting my face. This video is pure gold to me right now
Sparring has easily become one of my favorite activities now when I go to the gym. I've been doing Muay thai for almost 8 years and I felt like I hit a wall years ago and I became unenjoyable fighting guys who are younger and faster. After watching your videos and emulating different styles of fighters in my sparring I become much more confident and more able to hold my own against some of the better fighters at my gym.
It’s a relief to see that I am not the only one. I am two months in. It’s frustrating yet humbling because I am two months in and EVERYONE is better and younger than me. I tried sparring but I feel handicapped because my Thai kicks are not developed yet.
i love the way jeff moves his head, just from watching his videos alone i realize how much better i've become at dodging punches just by emulating the way he slips out to the side right after throwing a strike
This entire video is the truth. My first fight went EXACTLY like you just explained. I got hit, instant broken nose and I couldn't even settle down enough to throw punches. I only landed a few left hooks and one head kick that breifly rocked my opponent I had to adjust and figure it out mid fight, so by the time I started to get off and land my combos it was already too late and I got KO'd. Great advice Jeff #MMASHREDDED
I am lucky to have found a great boxing gym with a great coach, whenever I watch videos online, I notice most things that are said I already heard from my coach. Not everyone is so lucky so I am infinitely grateful for people like you, helping everyone without necessarily asking something back
It took me a long long time to get over flinching. Personally what worked was more sparring and realising the punch coming doesnt really hurt and by bracing myself i can take it. Once i got over the fear i was landing so many more headshots and my sparring improved alot.
Great info here. One thing that was a HUGE help for me was trainkng with a slip bag. It's just a little 5 to 8 lb bag so it won't hurt if you get hit. But it helps train you to not slip or move too early and also trains you to move your head off the line. Super important in sparring
This is the best martial arts channel online,never seen better martial arts teacher than him. I also I like the way he doesnt speak too much so he can get his video to be over 10 mins so he can earn more money out of it,he just tell's you the things you're looking for and no more. Love you Jeff
In my experience getting over flinching or the fear of getting hit is just reps. The more you spar the more you become less afraid of getting hit for me. Also another thing that has helped my sparring is using my heavy bag. I do a 10 minutes session pretending my heavy bag is my opponent. It probably sounds goofy but it has worked like crazy for me in terms of my performance during sparring.
As Bruce Lee said in his book "Expressing the Human Body" Don't get to comfortable hitting the heavy bag because hitting the heavy bag too much can create bad habits such as hitting the bag and not moving creates bad habit for being open to a counter strike in a real life sparring match or a street situation.
YES EXACTLY. So many people just “hit” the bag instead of using faints and defense. Plus using defense and head movement on the bag is so much better for overall cardio
I agree with everything in the video and would point to the emphasis of starting with a low intensity to get used to getting hit, then slowly amping up the intensity at a comfortable pace.
Drilling to develop your knstincts your fight response withthe skills you learned Your scared whenu close your eyes you need to beleive in your defende system to get over your fear of being hit Make sure your opponenet is actually making contact with your chin light and controlled with your opponent punching through your hesad Hit your opoinents head
Jeff been watching ur tips since day one from the old videos to when u would spar other arts and ur a hell of a coach and active fighter and I'm a boxer the product knowledge u provide is good
agreed ENTIRELY man. You know I also had fear of getting hit in the face(the nose especially) when I first joined muay thai, and that feeling didnt wholly leave me until about 2 years in - but even now, whenever I have to spar my coach, I am very VERY careful; when I am do offense I explode and throw fairly short 1-4 shot punch and kick(or knee if the range is right) combinations before immediately returning to neutral stance as fast as possible and also making a preparatory leg check in case a roundhouse kick comes for my leg or body(as it often does against my coach after I finish a combo) and getting back into my full on high guard. Or throwing a jab out there while my right hand and and arm is glued to my face and elbow at my ribs fist at cheek level. I still feel fear sometimes; not against guys who are really good, I feel it before I even go to class; but by the time I get there its totally gone; and its not an intense feeling either(not anymore; it was before I got over it basically) but like you said, the way to get over the fear of getting hit in the face is to HAVE GOOD DEFENSE(ESPECIALLY against shots to the face/head) and to KNOW YOUR OWN DEFENSIVE ABILITIES; and to have faith in your defense and YOURSELF. This sounds obvious but its not. Sparring, and also the attack and defense drill that we do(just what it sounds like; one guy is on full attack, can punch kick knee clinch you, and you must defend against all his shots until the timer sounds, then we switch places and do it again, several sets of this, usually, apiece; we do it right before sparring usually, its very effective as a drill for defense - even for offense because it gets you used to hitting someone, while not having to worry about getting hit back, and good for defense for the same reason, you focus entirely on defense and not attack), made me understand this, over time. Indeed its so simple that many people miss it for just that reason. TRUST in your defense get good at it drill it constantly even outside of class, every single day thats what I do. Solid defense is the key to a good offense. And make sure you have TIGHT and SOLID technique and a TIGHT and SOLID guard(and your muscles remember the position...btw it might be uncomfortable at first, how close you gotta pack your arms and your fists together to form the guard, but you will get used to it within a few weeks), its vital for both offense and defense.
you know exactly what your talking about brother, I totally agree! BELIEVING in your defence is so important because fighting is so much mental! thanks for your insight brother!
I dont usually comment but I have to on this one. Your a great teacher/coach. Thank you for taking time to share the knowledge you have learned in your journey of martial arts. Thank you
The most basic principles of combat that are almost always overlooked! Definitely solid advice for the novice and even for all of those so-called experts who feel like there’s nothing else for them to learn! Great 👍 video Bruh.
Great video Jeff. I trained at alot of different schools and I think it also depends om the school atmosphere and sparring partners. Especially for any beginners. When I started I sparrred people who would adjust to your level, sure you might get a smack or two the odd time but you weren't getting clapped. But I also sparred one black belt every Sat in particular and I used to dread going in and freeze up when I even saw him entering the class. Then he battered me haha Even now a decade later, I don't freeze up but confidence tends to diminish when I'm paired with someone who has something to prove and just not a good sparring partner. In my final semester I was fortunate to be asked down to the MMA school, and one of the pro MMA guys was throwing overhand bombs, no headgear, super hard shots. I flat out refused to spar him towards the end, but before that he would go so hard and all my confidence in my feet would go and I would go straight into cover and defensive mode, just wanting the round to end. It fuckin' sucked, no one learned a thing. I wanted to learn from those guys, as MMA is not my style. On the their end it was a chance to spar someone from more of a points/TKD background, so if they ever ended up fighting someone for real from a traditional background it's great to spar that. He was literally only interested in proving one thing.
🙌 I’ve Sparred Every Day For About 6 Months Now And I Havent Gotten Any Better, But I Will Catch Up My StandUp With My Ground Grappling Game (Jui Jitsu, Lots Of Leg Submissions Mainly Heel Hooks.) No Matter What 🙌
Your content has helped me so much over the past year and a half and made me a better martial artist. Funny because today is my sparring day lol. Keep it up man
I love your videos! Never seen tutorial videos for mma like this one. We see the application of your techniques during sparring sessions and even your fights.. - your fan from the Philippines!💪
Sparring is essential to understand that your martial arts is implacable in a live fight. Sparring takes time, but key focus should be look at their chest. You will see where their strikes come from. Move your legs, dont be a sitting target. Get used to getting hit (lightly) Bas Rutin had a good drill by holding up the guard and back against the wall and allowing to feel the punches on your guard. You'll gradually stop flinching. Understand kicking range, punching range and in the clinch. Baby steps, also find a partner you can trust, Thai's are pretty good at keeping it light. Jeff's hand parry helped me a bit, I was able to see where punches were coming from, where as before I'd shell up and just be a blind sitting target. Big fan.
In Muay Thai classes we do technique training with partners and were recommended to keep the gloves as targets close to the head to get used to incoming punches.
This is my summary: Sparring is the closest your gojng to get tk an actual fight and is good to practice your techniques and new combos You want ro hit your opponenet and let toue opponenet hit you but not to hard so yku get used to being hit same and tiu want ti get used to hitting your opponent bur keep it light Nost gyms dont have a set sparring program or progression levels so it is hard to know You dont want to be robotic and constantly keep your opponent under pressure you throw a feww punches and then relax and do another combo and move arohnd
Tou dknt want to build the bad habit of not actually getting used to being hit and then panicking and loosing confidence whe. U do get properly hit You want to hit your opponent also sk tiu her used to hitting
Great stuff bud :) One thing I learned early on in a class was about defence, blocking, stepping to the side/back and of course slipping. I think this helps alot of people early on as well to feel better about it all. I never really had a problem with being hit (of course you dont want to get hit)
ive been doing kickboxing for a while now (i’m brown and white belt) and this flinching when fighting never used to happen to me but it seems to have started pretty recently. i guess it could be due to the lack of sparring when we were in lockdown last year.
Again, amazing content. Everything was pinpoint, and simple. Thank you for your sharing cause' it will help me in my training. Hands down to you bro!!!
Very important to see your opponent, i usually crack my front guard to have an eye on them, but this info will definitely help out further!!! Thanks jeff! -Freddy!
MMAShredded yes. So I am a grappler, I have a tendency to look away or down whenever I wanna go for a leg takedown, I know fighting isn’t for everybody but I want fighting to be for me badly. So I ask you this, does this course have Grappling drills for fighting? I have a tendency to back pedal too when I wanna be the one to pressure the guy backwards
4 likes,no viewes,I can explain that to my colleg in the comment section,but that's not inportant.Your vids are worth viewing,that's what is important!
Something that I might add is to try only sparing with the instructor for several months. You can at least relax in the idea that someone at that level is going to be controlled and isn't going to hurt you. Another benefit to this is that the instructor is going to spar with you in such a way that will be aimed at making you better rather than about flexing his or her own ego. I also had the same problems with fear of getting hit and tensing up in the beginning. New guys off the street had no control and I would almost always get hurt because neither of us knew what we were doing. I decided that I was only going to spar with the instructor for a few months. When I went back to spar with the beginners and even the intermediate students the difference was like night and day. I didn't flinch or get caught with all of the stupid stuff that I used to. I was able to hit and not get hit and became much more evasive and effective as a fighter.
For me personally to get over the fear and get comfortable was just to keep sparring and eventually it just became natural and I just got use to getting hit witch in turn taught me to move my head. My head movement isn’t very clean tho as I’ve never been taught it. But eventually everything became second nature. But it takes time and a lot of blood sweat and tears I can almost guarantee that all good fighters got there there ass kicked hundreds of times to get to a high level
My coach does this, but he'll wear mitts or pads and when you do flinch or blink to the point that it becomes a big problem he'll have you hold you arms up and he'll slap you in the gut with the same force hes using in the drill to get you to understand if it does hit it wont hurt. Helped a lot in my sparring and I've even started to be able to slip punches more because I'm not flinching to the point I can't see when to slip lol
I think it really depends on each person's instinct. Me personally, I can very rarely avoid blinking/flinching, even though I really tried to overcome this
First i am a big fan and love your videos. I dont compete anymore but i like to spar and who knows maybe ill compete again. I have a question though how long is your reach compared to your height, for example i feel very confortable with the long guard and sometimes hands a lil down, the problem is i am heavy for my height, and my reach is not that great, i do well against most oponnents who are a little bit taller but when i face really tall lanky dudes its devastating
Nearly perfect video. Only thing is adding some BackGround Music, especially that Twitter/msg montage. Which video is the shirtless sparring footage with you both in white trunks from? That's a wild one
last week was my first time sparing i knew not to flinch but couldn't really help it espiccally after getting hit a few times u get gun shy foumd myself backing up way to much to they said i did good just need more experience
From the very first day that you join a gym, to the very first time you spar, how much time is in between? Should you start sparring during your first couple days in the new gym or do you need to wait a few months or a year before sparring?
I personally waited a few months but I think you can start much much earlier, depending on who your sparring partners are, but also how much control you have. everyone learns at diff speeds!
I have two questions: For me it is very hard to work with headmovement in sparring because I´m very afraid of being hit. Thats why I move backwards a lot and lean back, when a strike comes but never actually move laterally. Also, I have problems with good footwork and creating angles. Do you have any tipp for me?
I haven't seen your technique itself so I cannot comment if its the technique that needs to improve, but if you are afraid of being hit, you need to drill and spar more. You can learn all the specific drills I used to get me to the sparring level I am at here: www.mmashredded.com/offers/cU2AnooC/checkout
How to get over the mental block of “taking it easy on your teammate”. I have this stupid block of also not taking shots or being aggressive cuz I don’t want to hurt a friend
Thanks for the video... I so agree with your comments, it's the problem I have with the guys I do sparring with. They are all over the place and just want to punch without any structure. You don't learn anything like that and being a woman doesn't help as they want to make a point with they testosterone 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
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How do I find the Prep for sparring course?
Do I have to just subscribe to your courses and it’ll be available there or is there a separate program for it?
Jeff is a gem in the combat sports community; sharing knowledge for the improvement of others. Thank you, sir!
thank you for watching!!
Jeff is an intense fighter. We should spar, bro..
Light and technical sparring is the best tool to improve your sparring. Also help your sparring partners improve. By helping your Sparring partners become better you make it more challenging for yourself. No one improves in their comfort zone.
One person I spar with was so used to hitting pads that they’d punch my gloves in the same pattern we’d hit pads while sparring. If I opened my guard their punches would follow my gloves. I had to encourage them to aim for my face or body. They have since improved substantially and if I drop my guard they are quick to slip a punch past my guard to remind me to get my hands up. Their offence has improved so in turn my defence has improved.
I totally agree! thanks for the comment. cheers!
Same thing here with a guy I train with.
Wow! That's exactly what I've been doing since I started kickboxing some months ago. I'm used to hit the targets and therefore the gloves, and each time I hit my partner's faces I'm worrying if I hurt them, even though I'm throwing very light punches. I still can't get rid of that "fear" of hurting them even though I'm not a strong person and they have no problem hitting my face. This video is pure gold to me right now
Shane Fazen (FightTips) Vs Jeff Chan (MMAShredded) in friendly sparring.
LIKE if you agree.
that would be fun and hope to one day!
same weight i think too!
Hell yes I've actually been looking a d hoping for that
@@MrNonoya_Bizness Yeah, kind of.
that would be awsome love both of those guys content
Sparring has easily become one of my favorite activities now when I go to the gym. I've been doing Muay thai for almost 8 years and I felt like I hit a wall years ago and I became unenjoyable fighting guys who are younger and faster. After watching your videos and emulating different styles of fighters in my sparring I become much more confident and more able to hold my own against some of the better fighters at my gym.
awesome man! keep at it bro!
run a lot
It’s a relief to see that I am not the only one. I am two months in. It’s frustrating yet humbling because I am two months in and EVERYONE is better and younger than me. I tried sparring but I feel handicapped because my Thai kicks are not developed yet.
My bro, you have got to be THE best martial arts coach ever. I definitely got to get my hands on the new course.
love you bro ! and thank you!
i love the way jeff moves his head, just from watching his videos alone i realize how much better i've become at dodging punches just by emulating the way he slips out to the side right after throwing a strike
sweet bro I'm glad I had some influence on you! :)
This entire video is the truth. My first fight went EXACTLY like you just explained. I got hit, instant broken nose and I couldn't even settle down enough to throw punches. I only landed a few left hooks and one head kick that breifly rocked my opponent I had to adjust and figure it out mid fight, so by the time I started to get off and land my combos it was already too late and I got KO'd. Great advice Jeff #MMASHREDDED
hahahah! we all experience that. thanks for just being honest :P and thanks for watching as always Chris!
I am lucky to have found a great boxing gym with a great coach, whenever I watch videos online, I notice most things that are said I already heard from my coach.
Not everyone is so lucky so I am infinitely grateful for people like you, helping everyone without necessarily asking something back
yes thats true! a lot of people are self training!
It took me a long long time to get over flinching. Personally what worked was more sparring and realising the punch coming doesnt really hurt and by bracing myself i can take it. Once i got over the fear i was landing so many more headshots and my sparring improved alot.
thank you for sharing your experience!!
sick quality jeff! your material is hands down the most valuable on whole youtube regarding striking
thank you Dominic, I appreciate it!!
Great info here. One thing that was a HUGE help for me was trainkng with a slip bag. It's just a little 5 to 8 lb bag so it won't hurt if you get hit. But it helps train you to not slip or move too early and also trains you to move your head off the line. Super important in sparring
sweet thanks for sharing your experience!
This is the best martial arts channel online,never seen better martial arts teacher than him.
I also I like the way he doesnt speak too much so he can get his video to be over 10 mins so he can earn more money out of it,he just tell's you the things you're looking for and no more.
Love you Jeff
thanks so much for the support Aleksander!! love you too!
In my experience getting over flinching or the fear of getting hit is just reps. The more you spar the more you become less afraid of getting hit for me.
Also another thing that has helped my sparring is using my heavy bag. I do a 10 minutes session pretending my heavy bag is my opponent. It probably sounds goofy but it has worked like crazy for me in terms of my performance during sparring.
true story!
As Bruce Lee said in his book "Expressing the Human Body" Don't get to comfortable hitting the heavy bag because hitting the heavy bag too much can create bad habits such as hitting the bag and not moving creates bad habit for being open to a counter strike in a real life sparring match or a street situation.
YES EXACTLY. So many people just “hit” the bag instead of using faints and defense. Plus using defense and head movement on the bag is so much better for overall cardio
I agree with everything in the video and would point to the emphasis of starting with a low intensity to get used to getting hit, then slowly amping up the intensity at a comfortable pace.
cheers!!
Been watching Jeff's videos for about a year now and each episode helps me improve on something
thank you for watching!
Drilling to develop your knstincts your fight response withthe skills you learned
Your scared whenu close your eyes you need to beleive in your defende system to get over your fear of being hit
Make sure your opponenet is actually making contact with your chin light and controlled with your opponent punching through your hesad
Hit your opoinents head
someone hasn't trained any defence at all
The most underrated mma channel on YT. U r a legend Jeff!
thanks Arka!
Jeff been watching ur tips since day one from the old videos to when u would spar other arts and ur a hell of a coach and active fighter and I'm a boxer the product knowledge u provide is good
thank you Alan!!
agreed ENTIRELY man. You know I also had fear of getting hit in the face(the nose especially) when I first joined muay thai, and that feeling didnt wholly leave me until about 2 years in - but even now, whenever I have to spar my coach, I am very VERY careful; when I am do offense I explode and throw fairly short 1-4 shot punch and kick(or knee if the range is right) combinations before immediately returning to neutral stance as fast as possible and also making a preparatory leg check in case a roundhouse kick comes for my leg or body(as it often does against my coach after I finish a combo) and getting back into my full on high guard. Or throwing a jab out there while my right hand and and arm is glued to my face and elbow at my ribs fist at cheek level. I still feel fear sometimes; not against guys who are really good, I feel it before I even go to class; but by the time I get there its totally gone; and its not an intense feeling either(not anymore; it was before I got over it basically) but like you said, the way to get over the fear of getting hit in the face is to HAVE GOOD DEFENSE(ESPECIALLY against shots to the face/head) and to KNOW YOUR OWN DEFENSIVE ABILITIES; and to have faith in your defense and YOURSELF. This sounds obvious but its not. Sparring, and also the attack and defense drill that we do(just what it sounds like; one guy is on full attack, can punch kick knee clinch you, and you must defend against all his shots until the timer sounds, then we switch places and do it again, several sets of this, usually, apiece; we do it right before sparring usually, its very effective as a drill for defense - even for offense because it gets you used to hitting someone, while not having to worry about getting hit back, and good for defense for the same reason, you focus entirely on defense and not attack), made me understand this, over time.
Indeed its so simple that many people miss it for just that reason. TRUST in your defense get good at it drill it constantly even outside of class, every single day thats what I do. Solid defense is the key to a good offense. And make sure you have TIGHT and SOLID technique and a TIGHT and SOLID guard(and your muscles remember the position...btw it might be uncomfortable at first, how close you gotta pack your arms and your fists together to form the guard, but you will get used to it within a few weeks), its vital for both offense and defense.
you know exactly what your talking about brother, I totally agree! BELIEVING in your defence is so important because fighting is so much mental! thanks for your insight brother!
You are a beast I appreciate what you do for the community of MMA and Mauy Thai sharing all that knowledge and wisdom God bless 🙏
Quick short and direct to the real stuff man, you are a walking enciclopedia of combact thanks a lot from Dominican republic
thank you so much brother!
I dont usually comment but I have to on this one. Your a great teacher/coach. Thank you for taking time to share the knowledge you have learned in your journey of martial arts. Thank you
thank you for your support brother!
The most basic principles of combat that are almost always overlooked!
Definitely solid advice for the novice and even for all of those so-called experts who feel like there’s nothing else for them to learn! Great 👍 video Bruh.
thanks for watching brother!
Great video Jeff. I trained at alot of different schools and I think it also depends om the school atmosphere and sparring partners. Especially for any beginners. When I started I sparrred people who would adjust to your level, sure you might get a smack or two the odd time but you weren't getting clapped. But I also sparred one black belt every Sat in particular and I used to dread going in and freeze up when I even saw him entering the class. Then he battered me haha
Even now a decade later, I don't freeze up but confidence tends to diminish when I'm paired with someone who has something to prove and just not a good sparring partner. In my final semester I was fortunate to be asked down to the MMA school, and one of the pro MMA guys was throwing overhand bombs, no headgear, super hard shots. I flat out refused to spar him towards the end, but before that he would go so hard and all my confidence in my feet would go and I would go straight into cover and defensive mode, just wanting the round to end. It fuckin' sucked, no one learned a thing. I wanted to learn from those guys, as MMA is not my style. On the their end it was a chance to spar someone from more of a points/TKD background, so if they ever ended up fighting someone for real from a traditional background it's great to spar that. He was literally only interested in proving one thing.
I appreciate your comment and you sharing your story! thank you for watching. Cheers!
These channels help me improve so well
thank you for watching!
Oh man that dart right hand. It's not just the quality of the teaching, it's the quality of the techniques. Becoming a big Jeff Chan fan.
thanks brother!
You are the best about teaching combat sports on the Internet.
thank you!!
🙌 I’ve Sparred Every Day For About 6 Months Now And I Havent Gotten Any Better, But I Will Catch Up My StandUp With My Ground Grappling Game (Jui Jitsu, Lots Of Leg Submissions Mainly Heel Hooks.) No Matter What 🙌
awesome!
Your content has helped me so much over the past year and a half and made me a better martial artist. Funny because today is my sparring day lol. Keep it up man
haha awesome! glad to hear, keep up the training!
I love your videos! Never seen tutorial videos for mma like this one. We see the application of your techniques during sparring sessions and even your fights.. - your fan from the Philippines!💪
thanks so much man!
Sparring is essential to understand that your martial arts is implacable in a live fight. Sparring takes time, but key focus should be look at their chest. You will see where their strikes come from. Move your legs, dont be a sitting target. Get used to getting hit (lightly) Bas Rutin had a good drill by holding up the guard and back against the wall and allowing to feel the punches on your guard. You'll gradually stop flinching. Understand kicking range, punching range and in the clinch. Baby steps, also find a partner you can trust, Thai's are pretty good at keeping it light. Jeff's hand parry helped me a bit, I was able to see where punches were coming from, where as before I'd shell up and just be a blind sitting target. Big fan.
thanks for sharing your insight! cheers!
@@MMAShredded nah brother, thank you. We've all learnt a lot from your sparring.
In Muay Thai classes we do technique training with partners and were recommended to keep the gloves as targets close to the head to get used to incoming punches.
This is my summary:
Sparring is the closest your gojng to get tk an actual fight and is good to practice your techniques and new combos
You want ro hit your opponenet and let toue opponenet hit you but not to hard so yku get used to being hit same and tiu want ti get used to hitting your opponent bur keep it light
Nost gyms dont have a set sparring program or progression levels so it is hard to know
You dont want to be robotic and constantly keep your opponent under pressure you throw a feww punches and then relax and do another combo and move arohnd
Tou dknt want to build the bad habit of not actually getting used to being hit and then panicking and loosing confidence whe. U do get properly hit
You want to hit your opponent also sk tiu her used to hitting
Great video! I can definitely translate these tips over to boxing sparring!
awesome!
Awesome .. I needed this video as well sometimes I tense up and get clocked good
thanks for watching!
This man is a genius.
thanks for watching!
Great stuff bud :) One thing I learned early on in a class was about defence, blocking, stepping to the side/back and of course slipping. I think this helps alot of people early on as well to feel better about it all. I never really had a problem with being hit (of course you dont want to get hit)
thanks for watching!
Jeff chan next video:
Hey guys Jeff Chan here now I'll show you how I became an Avenger.
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hahahah :P
I just waiting for that super sayajin crash course im sure we re almost there XD
ive been doing kickboxing for a while now (i’m brown and white belt) and this flinching when fighting never used to happen to me but it seems to have started pretty recently. i guess it could be due to the lack of sparring when we were in lockdown last year.
yes sparring is very important!
You help a lot of people with video's dude!!....God bless you!
thank you!!
Always on point! I've learned allot from watching your videos. Keep up the good work, can't wait to see you fight for a big organization!
thanks so much brother!
Looking really sharp Jeff!
thank you Vivek!!
Great video Jeff! Thank you for always putting out high quality, useful information.
thank you!!
I have sayan rash too. She increase 60 in your ki points
haha! true!
Nice, will recommend this to a friend of mine
when we're going to practice again.
awesome, cheers!
Again, amazing content. Everything was pinpoint, and simple. Thank you for your sharing cause' it will help me in my training. Hands down to you bro!!!
thanks so much!
your videos helped me a lot during my trainings
i hope i reach close to your level soon
you will one day!
@@MMAShredded i hope so, finally found something im happy doing
good tipps, should be tought in all fight gyms
Cheers!
I accept u as my teacher many many love and respect for u
thank you!
Very sharp Jeff. Good stuff.
thank you!
Very important to see your opponent, i usually crack my front guard to have an eye on them, but this info will definitely help out further!!!
Thanks jeff!
-Freddy!
thanks Saki!
Once again great stuff thank you 👊🥊🤼🥋.
thank you!!
Absolutely incredible stuff as always Jeff! Thank you
thanks Derek!!
Thank you so much Jeff your awesome I always have an anxiety everytime I had a sparring in boxing.
Give my program a shot, I am certain it will help you out! Either way, thanks for watching! Cheers!
Definitely buying this course no doubt
thanks Nick! let me know if you have any questions!
MMAShredded yes. So I am a grappler, I have a tendency to look away or down whenever I wanna go for a leg takedown, I know fighting isn’t for everybody but I want fighting to be for me badly. So I ask you this, does this course have Grappling drills for fighting? I have a tendency to back pedal too when I wanna be the one to pressure the guy backwards
Nice to see your vid again!
thank you Ano!
I was finally seeing improvement in sparring and then I injure my knee and I havent been able to train at all the past 4 days :(
awww Mann that sucks! I wish you a quick recovery!
You're incredible, thanks for the video!
thank you for watching!
Great tips thank you
thank you!
you would be a really good coach. You really broke this down to a science
thank you so much!!
Love your channel bro. Keep it up and God bless you.
thank you Anthony!
4 likes,no viewes,I can explain that to my colleg in the comment section,but that's not inportant.Your vids are worth viewing,that's what is important!
HAHAH thanks blitz!
Something that I might add is to try only sparing with the instructor for several months. You can at least relax in the idea that someone at that level is going to be controlled and isn't going to hurt you. Another benefit to this is that the instructor is going to spar with you in such a way that will be aimed at making you better rather than about flexing his or her own ego. I also had the same problems with fear of getting hit and tensing up in the beginning. New guys off the street had no control and I would almost always get hurt because neither of us knew what we were doing. I decided that I was only going to spar with the instructor for a few months. When I went back to spar with the beginners and even the intermediate students the difference was like night and day. I didn't flinch or get caught with all of the stupid stuff that I used to. I was able to hit and not get hit and became much more evasive and effective as a fighter.
thats awesome bro thanks for sharing your experience, perhaps I will also recommend doing that to new students!
Great advice! Thank you
thanks bro!
Your the best Jeff!
thanks man!
For me personally to get over the fear and get comfortable was just to keep sparring and eventually it just became natural and I just got use to getting hit witch in turn taught me to move my head. My head movement isn’t very clean tho as I’ve never been taught it. But eventually everything became second nature. But it takes time and a lot of blood sweat and tears I can almost guarantee that all good fighters got there there ass kicked hundreds of times to get to a high level
thanks for sharing your experience!
Finally I’m waiting for your fights in one
soon!
Great vid. That is what all my teachers say. If you don't hit with intent then I don't need to move. No one is learning!!!
cheers!!
great video, so helpful and very clear too
thank you!!
My coach does this, but he'll wear mitts or pads and when you do flinch or blink to the point that it becomes a big problem he'll have you hold you arms up and he'll slap you in the gut with the same force hes using in the drill to get you to understand if it does hit it wont hurt. Helped a lot in my sparring and I've even started to be able to slip punches more because I'm not flinching to the point I can't see when to slip lol
This is excellent
thank you!
Cheers Jeff 👍
cheers brother!
Very informative video man
thank you!
AWESOMEEE DUDE! 💯🤘🏻
thanks javor!!
Nice to see my buddy Mike Ahn in the thumbnail. That guy is very technical and tough!!
haha Mike is awesome! Yes he is super good!
nice video! thanks you jeff!
thank you!
This is what I need!
glad to hear :)
Thanks for the tips 👍 Sir
no problem!
I think it really depends on each person's instinct. Me personally, I can very rarely avoid blinking/flinching, even though I really tried to overcome this
just more experience and it will get better!
@@MMAShredded thanks bro
First i am a big fan and love your videos. I dont compete anymore but i like to spar and who knows maybe ill compete again.
I have a question though how long is your reach compared to your height, for example i feel very confortable with the long guard and sometimes hands a lil down, the problem is i am heavy for my height, and my reach is not that great, i do well against most oponnents who are a little bit taller but when i face really tall lanky dudes its devastating
hmm I've never measured my reach yet to be honest haha but will have to get back to you on that.
Nearly perfect video. Only thing is adding some BackGround Music, especially that Twitter/msg montage.
Which video is the shirtless sparring footage with you both in white trunks from? That's a wild one
haha thanks for the tip!
Great video!!!!
thx!!
My problems with sparring is I hesitate too much
more drilling!
Yeah I have now got over it now I’m focusing on cutting angles and closing the distance
Man same here. I see my opportunity and start overthinking
last week was my first time sparing i knew not to flinch but couldn't really help it espiccally after getting hit a few times u get gun shy foumd myself backing up way to much to they said i did good just need more experience
Thanks for you job 👊👌🙏
thank you!!
From the very first day that you join a gym, to the very first time you spar, how much time is in between? Should you start sparring during your first couple days in the new gym or do you need to wait a few months or a year before sparring?
I personally waited a few months but I think you can start much much earlier, depending on who your sparring partners are, but also how much control you have. everyone learns at diff speeds!
Yo thank for the tips 👍🍀
no prob!
Thank you Jeff! Are you still with One FC? Any updates?
I am, I am hoping to make my debut in the new year feb or march!
Great video.
thank you!
I have two questions: For me it is very hard to work with headmovement in sparring because I´m very afraid of being hit. Thats why I move backwards a lot and lean back, when a strike comes but never actually move laterally. Also, I have problems with good footwork and creating angles. Do you have any tipp for me?
I haven't seen your technique itself so I cannot comment if its the technique that needs to improve, but if you are afraid of being hit, you need to drill and spar more. You can learn all the specific drills I used to get me to the sparring level I am at here: www.mmashredded.com/offers/cU2AnooC/checkout
Great video!
thank you!!
How to get over the mental block of “taking it easy on your teammate”. I have this stupid block of also not taking shots or being aggressive cuz I don’t want to hurt a friend
you can hit them hard to the body, know that you are not injuring him but making him tougher!
This is really good
thank you!
Amazing video man!
Abraços do Brasil cara!
Quero ver tu lutando em breve!
oss
thank you!!!
Hey Jeff, how often do you run? Does running help a significant amount in your stamina or not so much?
I find it helps a lot! I like to run 3-4 times a week months before a fight to build my aerobic system
Thanks for the video... I so agree with your comments, it's the problem I have with the guys I do sparring with. They are all over the place and just want to punch without any structure. You don't learn anything like that and being a woman doesn't help as they want to make a point with they testosterone 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Is there a point at which to begin sparring? I’ve been waiting to make sure I have some technique first but I don’t want to use that as an excuse.
have you ever done the best tactics of Andy Hug? I want to see you try to land axe kicks and Hug tornado in sparring!
I haven't yet but will put that on my list!
Khai Wu! And great video, very educational! :)
haha yeah!!